Available for internships and freelance workZaid Alam
Software Engineer
Wed, 1 Jan12:00 AM IST
Hey, I'm Zaid Alam, a final-year CS student at BIT Mesra, based in Ranchi.
I contribute Go to CNCF Jaeger and build websites and internal tools for studios and startups.
Experience
- Jun to Aug 2026
Technical Intern at
STAILBuilt the attendance and workforce system for 7 roles, with approvals, an audit log and CSV export. Rebuilt the company site. - May to Jul 2025
SDE Intern at
BCCLBuilt an OPD queue system for 500+ concurrent patients that replaced paper registration at the hospital.
Open source
26 pull requests merged upstream.
- Jun 2026 to now
JaegerCNCF, Go, 13 mergedStorage backends: RFC 0006 across 25 files, two crash fixes. - Mar to May 2026
BoaJS engine, Rust, 10 of 10 mergedFetch API, JSON performance and CI hardening. - Apr to May 2026
IdentusHyperledger, TypeScript, 3 mergedDID URL and DIDComm fixes in the SDK.
541 contributions in the last year
@iammdzaidalamWork
Products, tools and client sites I have built and shipped.
Developer tool
Waypoint
UIgrove
Component library
Social Yatri
Client siteDesigned and built the full site for a Kolkata social media marketing agency
Live- CLI agent
LedgerA coding agent that checks its own claims
The globe and ASCII portrait on this page come from UIgrove. See them live.
Writing
- A map of Jaeger MCP tools and skillsNotes from benchmarking the AI assistant tool shapes against a live Jaeger binary.Aug 2026August 2026 · 24 min
- How Jaeger stores traces in ClickHouseThe storage layer walkthrough written while fixing the corrupted row panic.Aug 2026August 2026 · 20 min
- Jaeger AI gatewayWhere the model calls enter the tracing platform and what they can reach.Aug 2026August 2026 · 22 min
Around me
Spotify
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26°
- Ranchi
Ranchi, India
Mostly clear
Achievements
- Rank 1,080
ICPC 2026 Online Challenge, powered by Huaweiof 33,900+
- Rank 773
Meta Hacker Cup 2025of 25,000+
- Rated 1514
- Rated 1861
- Round 2
Google The Big Code 2026
Journey
- Technical InternSTAIL2026
- Open source contributorJaeger, Boa, Identus2026 to now
- SDE InternBCCL2025
- Computer Science undergradBIT Mesra2023 to 2027
Let’s have coffee
Want to work together, or just want to chat?
Grab 15 minutes on my calendar, or drop me an email. I read everything.
- Resume