Zia Syed
Engineering Intern
  • San Jose,
  • California,
  • United States of America
Member Since: 2014/07/30
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Engineering Intern
IBM
June 2014 – Present
Hardware Engineering Intern
Infinera
June 2013 – August 2013
Optimized OSC by utilizing private GNM to test wavelengths against various features of OSC and various states of FRU, including through transient tests. Controlled VOAs remotely with SDVT Systems Interface tool. Set up various connections from BMM to OAM at varying dB. Tested C-Band and OSC laser to confirm functionally of OSC or ALS alarms. Successfully disabled 1510 wavelength used for personal company data transfer at the request of customers requiring a dark fiber for splicing.
Software Engineering Intern
Infinera
June 2012 – August 2012
Pioneered transition from Oracle (vertically scaled) to Cassandra (horizontally scaled) database in order to increase speed and efficiency of company database system. Effectively launched transfer of data packets into new database. Implemented millions of reads and writes per second through Cassandra in order to reduce costs for company and future clients. Achieved software engineering testing and debugging efforts.
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Education
California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
Computer Science
2012 – 2016
Lynbrook High School
2008 – 2012
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Full Biography

Enthusiastic and experienced programmer and entrepreneur with expertise in Java, C, C++, SQL, Python, databases (Oracle and Cassandra) and webdesign (HTML + CSS).

Languages
Hindi
Elementary Proficiency
Urdu
Elementary Proficiency
French
Elementary Proficiency

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