Mohammad Al-Khani

Experience

14 years, five companies

Automotive, consumer tech, fintech, enterprise SaaS and databases. Full history on LinkedIn.

  1. Oct 2025 – present
    Austin, Texas

    General Motors (Motorsports)

    Staff Software Architect & Backend Engineering Lead

    • Lead architect for the race analytics platform across distributed systems, platform engineering, data architecture and AI governance.
    • Re-engineered distributed locking on the high-concurrency race state engine, replacing a global Redis lock with an append-based log model: lock starvation fell from 100% to 0% at peak race-day traffic.
    • Designed common-redis, the team's standard Java/Python client library (cluster-aware pooling, TTL defaults, metrics), and led the memory cleanup that cut cache size 44% and peak load from 94% to 56%.
    • Championed and helped establish Platform Engineering; drove org-wide Terraform GitOps with Atlantis and ArgoCD, moving engineers to read-only, auditable cloud access.
    • Authored AGENTS.md, an org-wide AI review framework whose rules AI reviewers cite in pull requests, and the “Deliver Faster Without Compromising Quality” workflow that cut design-document time from 2 days to 2 hours.
    • Built common-github-actions, reusable CI/CD adopted across the organization, including Data Science and Data Engineering.
    • Led EKS/AKS upgrades across three versions (1.32 → 1.35), defined service SLAs/SLOs, and interviewed 17+ senior and staff candidates.
  2. Oct 2022 – Oct 2025
    Remote

    Life360

    Senior Backend Engineer (staff-scope, Optimization Team)

    • Led a cross-team resilience and cloud-cost initiative spanning 30+ Java microservices: decoupled message delivery and introduced zone-aware routing so services stayed resilient across availability zones while cutting inter-AZ network cost and enabling Spot capacity, validated through fault injection.
    • Defined the cache migration strategy and built a reusable Spring Boot framework that moved cached objects to Protobuf 3 with 100% uptime, unlocking $1M+ in annual infrastructure savings.
    • Built a near real-time serverless cost visibility pipeline from scratch, giving every service owner their spend and driving $1M+ in additional annual savings.
    • Led the EC2-to-EKS migration and rebuilt a critical Kinesis bridge under a 99.999% availability SLO.
    • Shipped platform foundations adopted by 10+ teams; mentored an engineer through promotion.
  3. Oct 2020 – Oct 2021
    Remote

    Upstart

    Founding Senior Backend Engineer, Loans Pricing

    • Architected a plug-in API gateway that replaced a monolithic pricing flow behind one interface.
    • Designed a cross-service promotional loan-freeze capability that grew revenue 15%.
    • Co-founded the engineering-wide SQL Performance Review Committee to raise query standards across teams.
    • Co-designed a partner credit assessment library with machine learning engineers to lift lead conversion.
  4. Oct 2019 – Oct 2020
    Milpitas, California

    CodeObjects

    Senior Software Engineer (principal scope)

    • Owned end-to-end architecture for the platform's litigation system and platform-wide authentication and authorization.
    • Replaced a licensed migration tool with a batch ingestion engine: $10M+ a year in client licensing eliminated and 10% added company revenue.
    • Re-architected authorization on zero-trust principles, cutting operational overhead 20% while securing sensitive claim data.
  5. Oct 2012 – Oct 2019
    Redwood City, California

    Oracle

    Senior Software Engineer & Software Engineer

    • Extended Oracle Enterprise Manager's CLI to synchronize metric thresholds across thousands of monitored databases for Fortune 500 enterprises.
    • Replaced storage-growth prediction models with non-linear regression, improving accuracy 70%.
    • Eliminated 30–40% of false monitoring alerts by fixing metric collection across databases and clusters.
    • Cut local deployment from 15 minutes to 4 seconds and release verification by 24 hours with automated benchmarking.

Skills

LanguagesJava, Python, SQL, Go, Ruby, Bash
FrameworksSpring Boot, Flask, FastAPI, Django, Rails
DataPostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, Kinesis
Cloud & platformAWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, Atlantis, ArgoCD, Helm, Docker
ObservabilityOpenTelemetry, Datadog, New Relic
APIsREST, gRPC, GraphQL, Protobuf 3, OpenAPI

Education

  • M.S. Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University (3.99 GPA)
  • B.S. Computer Science, Prince Sultan University (Ranked 1st in class)