▲About
maria.khan
I've worked on backend and infrastructure across fintech, consumer products, and enterprise software. I use this site to write about what I'm working on, share things I've built, and keep track of what I'm learning.
Open source I've shipped
leakferret started after I had rotated enough credentials that should never have reached git history. I built the project from the scanner core through its editor and agent integrations. The source and release packages are public.
leakferret
Context-aware secret scanner
I built the Rust engine, fixture catalog, provider checks, editor integration, MCP server, and release pipeline. It finds likely credentials, separates documented fixtures from real findings, verifies supported providers, and can rewrite a hardcoded value to an environment lookup.
Contribution activity
1,244+ contributions in the last year
Featured writing
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One slow consumer can stop every RabbitMQ publisher
A slow RabbitMQ consumer fills one queue until shared resource alarms block every publisher. Trace the pressure, the loss boundaries, and the safer designs.
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Now depends on who you ask
UTC fixes how time is written down. It does not settle whose clock won, when a transaction sampled it, or which event happened first.
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The event was delivered. The work was not.
Event fan-out can reach every subscriber while the business operation remains unfinished. See which consumers need completion state, retries, and an owner.
Achievements
- 2024 Grace Hopper Celebration India Scholarship Award (AnitaB.org)
- 2023 Amazon ML Summer School recipient
- 2023 CodeElevate scholarship recipient
- 2022 Mercor AI Chatbot Hiring Challenge 2.0, 4th globally
- 2022 to 2024 TalentSprint × Google Women Engineers Program (2-year cohort)
Education & certifications
- 2021 to 2025 Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science & Engineering. CGPA 8.5/10 (3.7 GPA on the 4.0 scale)
- cert INE Certified Cloud Associate (INE)
- cert Cyber Security Bootcamp for Women (ICTTF Cyber Risk Academy)
- cert Certified Kubernetes Administrator preparation (in progress) (CNCF / Linux Foundation)
Open to
$ ./hire.sh > open_to: backend, infrastructure, developer tools > shape: full-time or contract > location: remote / hybrid (India) > contact: [email protected] > exit 0
- →Backend and infrastructure work with real ownership of design, rollout, and operations.
- →Developer tools and reliability products built for engineers who need to understand what the system actually did.
- →Full-time or contract roles, remote or hybrid in India.
Ask me about
You can start with one of these, or just email me.