# Zeshan A.

> Software Engineer at Apple

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/zeshan

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Apple
Jan 2019 – Jan 2025

### Software Engineer @ Bazaarvoice
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Austin, Texas
Building a revolutionary real-time streaming denormalization engine in Kafka

Maintain flagship API that serves ~2 billion API calls a month for 5000 clients (Walmart, Target etc.)

Provide feedback to Confluent on their toolkit around Kafka (KSQL, Schema Registry, Rest Proxy)

Rebuilt API platform for Target and Sears. 10x reduction in response latency (~1s -> ~100ms). Saved the company thousands in AWS hosting costs. Migration to new platform was done seamlessly with no downtime.

Kafka, Elasticsearch
Scala, Java, Ruby
AWS, Jenkins, Kubernetes

### Automation Engineer @ Bazaarvoice
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Austin, Texas Area
Consolidated JIRA, Jenkins, GitHub data into unified, real-time dashboard. Backed by an Elasticsearch cluster and a Kibana front-end.

Parallelized Selenium test suite bringing down test times considerably

### Full-Stack Developer @ Client Outlook Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Kitchener, Canada Area
Developed a new responsive face for the company web app in React using Facebook’s Flux pattern. Utilized by thousands of clinicians and doctors across the world everyday.

Added freehand annotation tool to viewer. Optimized with the Douglas–Peucker algorithm.

Improved efficiency for clients by implementing error-specific pages on server side leading to a reduction in customer service calls

### Software Developer @ BlackBerry
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Waterloo, Ontario
Contributed to release of BES 12 implemented on Blackberry, Android and iOS


## Education
### Computer Science in Computer Science
University of Waterloo
Jan 2011 – Jan 2017


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/zeshan-anwar
- Website: https://zeshananwar.com/whoami/

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Source: https://flows.cv/zeshan
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/zeshan/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-22