Maziyar Panahi is a software engineer and backend developer with extensive experience in computer networks and software development. He has been programming and developing software for almost 12 years. In the past he also worked as a network planner and engineer after he completed Microsoft and CISCO courses (MCSE, MCSA, and CCNA). He was responsible for planning and implementing Windows-based and Linux-based computer networks to provide services such as DNS, DHCP, Active Directory, Caching, Database servers such as Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and MySQL, and Web Servers such as Apache and IIS in many companies and organisations such as International Airport and Refinery. Recently he has been designing and implementing application backend by using AWS cloud services.
Prior to that he worked as a Research Officer in Telekom Malaysia (TM) flagship project with Multimedia University titled “Development of Malaysian Culture and Heritage Digital Bank” for 2 years and he designed and implemented the entire project into the Amazon cloud-based services, designed a middle-ware architecture to provide web services such as XML and JOSN for communicating with other sub projects, developing a Web-based digital asset-management, and designed and developed a location-based mobile application based on Digital Bank taxonomy.
He is currently employed by University of Malaya as a Programmer and his special interests are auto-scalable, highly-available, and real-time Web and mobile applications by using bleeding-edge technologies such as Node.js, Socket.io, Express.js, Redis, and MongoDB. He is also working on real-time processing in Big Data by using Apache Shark and Impala along with batch processing by using Apache Hive on Amazon EMR Hadoop clusters and Cloudera Manager. Machine learning, building recommender engines by using Apache Mahout, and visualising Big Data in realtime streaming from social networks especially Twitter on geo-location maps are his other interests.
