Huzaifa Naseer

EXPERIENCE

All experience, in order.

Roles across production systems, backend engineering, tooling, and research.

Jul 2025 - Present

Software Development Engineer-1

Oracle

  • Developed high-performance, low-latency Java microservices with gRPC and REST interfaces.
  • Architected CI/CD pipelines on OCI and improved deployment reliability.
  • Integrated streaming and connectivity protocols for providers like Starlink, Orange, and Vodafone.
  • Improved Kubernetes deployment security and production readiness.
  • Built Prometheus and Grafana dashboards for real-time telemetry visibility.
  • Java
  • gRPC
  • REST
  • OCI
  • Kubernetes
  • Grafana
Jan 2025 - Jul 2025

Project Intern

Oracle

  • Contributed to Helidon microservices focused on performance and stability.
  • Refactored legacy systems for Starlink and IoT telemetry integration.
  • Built CI/CD pipelines for automated exports and deployments.
  • Worked on tenant-specific Prometheus metrics and Grafana dashboards.
  • Managed Kubernetes issues to keep services reliable in production.
  • Helidon
  • Java
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • CI/CD
  • Kubernetes
Mar 2024 - Aug 2024

Rust Developer

MakerStudio

  • Developed Rust backends for AI systems, including parsers and custom markup tooling.
  • Built REST and GraphQL APIs using Rocket and Actix.
  • Implemented concurrency patterns with Tokio.
  • Improved OAuth and database performance to reduce load times.
  • Rust
  • Actix
  • Rocket
  • Tokio
  • GraphQL
  • OAuth
Dec 2023 - Feb 2024

Research Intern

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

  • Trained and fine-tuned CNN architectures such as VGGNet, DenseNet, and ResNet.
  • Applied pruning and quantization techniques to improve model efficiency.
  • Implemented teacher-student and attention-based distillation workflows.
  • Evaluated model behavior across multiple pruning ratios.
  • PyTorch
  • CNNs
  • Pruning
  • Quantization
  • Distillation
May 2023 - Mar 2024

Software Developer

Rizin.re

  • Implemented targeted optimizations to significantly improve disassembly speed.
  • Helped transition framework internals from list-based structures to vector-based structures.
  • Improved scalability, functionality, and overall system efficiency.
  • C
  • Reverse engineering
  • Performance
  • Systems
  • Scalability
Sep 2022 - Nov 2022

Full Stack Intern

Wise App Live

  • Developed and enhanced the main website UI.
  • Built product pages for registration, search, and contact flows.
  • Optimized backend code to improve performance and scalability.
  • React
  • Backend
  • UI
  • Web
  • Performance