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Saad Mukhtar.

Software Engineer · Distributed Systems · Infrastructure

Capital One Software · Tesla · PlayStation · Super.com · UWaterloo CS

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Building

Observability Platform

building

End-to-end telemetry — metrics, logs, traces — at high write throughput with a query engine and dashboard

GoKafkaClickHouseOpenTelemetry

Work

Capital One Software· Developer Infrastructure

Software Engineer

Aug 2025–Present

San Francisco, CA

  • Diagnosed a 92.5% billing undercounting defect in a distributed OpenTelemetry pipeline; authored the root-cause analysis, led remediation across 20+ sessions with Principal Engineers, and restored metric accuracy, recovering $1M+ in enterprise contract billing.
  • Co-architected the telemetry pipeline (OpenTelemetry → S3 → Lambda → ClickHouse) for a multi-tenant observability and billing platform, ingesting 10M+ metrics/day across cloud-hosted and air-gapped Kubernetes.
Capital One

Software Engineer Intern

Jun–Aug 2024

Dallas, TX

  • Built a NestJS API on AWS Fargate (containerized microservices, CI/CD, auth) to accelerate read-heavy SailPoint workflows, eliminating 500+ daily support tickets for 2,000+ engineers.
Tesla

Software Engineer Intern

Jan–Apr 2024

Palo Alto, CA

  • Engineered a Python backend for cryptographic signature verification of safety-critical vehicle firmware, integrating build system APIs and secure key services to protect 1M+ updates per release.
Super.com

Software Engineer Intern

May–Aug 2023

Remote

  • Won 1st place in company hackathon by building an OpenAI-powered itinerary generator projected to drive $200K+ in ARR through personalized booking recommendations.
PlayStation

Software Developer Intern

Sep–Dec 2022

Remote

  • Shipped cross-platform React Native features (TypeScript) for the PS4/PS5 subscription tier launch, contributing to a rollout generating $600M+ annual revenue across 10M+ users.
PlayStation

Software Developer in Test Intern

Jan–Apr 2022

Remote

  • Designed and built a now-patented PS5 calendar feature in React Native; uncovered 16+ critical bugs affecting 40M+ users through PS4 Python test automation expansion.

Education

University of Waterloo

BCS Computer Science

2020–2025

Waterloo, ON

Stack

Go · Python · TypeScript · Kafka · ClickHouse · OpenTelemetry · Kubernetes · AWS