J Engineering timeline

Built through
doing.

Nearly four years inside Oracle RDBMS engineering, a difficult transition, and a deliberate move toward building in public.
Zeba Ali
05

Building in public. Writing. OSS projects. Distributed systems at implementation depth. Becoming a voice for women in tech.

04

Oracle India layoffs. Nearly 4 years as MTS IC2, Server Technologies Group. Nominated for SMTS IC3 by manager. Ended anyway.

03

Oracle India · MTS IC2 · RDBMS 23ai & 19c. 5B row concurrent workloads. Vector search benchmarking framework adopted cross-team. Fortune 500 production escalations. 150 bugs filed, 13 shipped to production releases. 4 RDBMS features owned end-to-end.

02

Wabtec Corporation · Software Engineer Intern. Java backend pipelines. MS SQL Server integrations. MDM automation with Informatica PowerCenter.

01

B.Tech Computer Science · IGDTUW, Delhi NCR

“I never watched a tutorial.
I learned by doing, by failing, and by building.”
Current direction

Going deeper.

01

Distributed Systems

Consensus protocols, replication, CAP theorem at implementation level

02

Java Internals

JVM, GC mechanics, concurrency primitives

03

LLD

Design patterns, SOLID, real system-level thinking

04

HLD

System design trade-offs I can defend end-to-end

05

Spring Boot

Building real backend services, not just knowing annotations

Open to backend engineering roles

Technical depth. Thoughtful teams. Work that matters.

Java, Spring Boot, distributed systems, and database engineering.

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