Abbas Daya
CEO And Founder at Gearlay Technologies Inc.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAbbas Daya is a founder and software engineer with a decade of experience building high-performance networking and systems software, now leading Gearlay Technologies to engineer the next era of fintech. He combines deep systems expertise from Arista—where he optimized ASIC platform paths for a 40% read-speed improvement—with a strong background in scalable cloud-native and microservices architectures from roles at Murex and research projects. An automation and efficiency aficionado, Abbas has tuned Elasticsearch pipelines to 52K docs/s and helped harden a widely used open-source Java Telegram bot library through refactors and test modernizations. He holds a 4.0 Master's in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo and brings a rare blend of hands-on low-level engineering, data-intensive research, and product-focused entrepreneurship.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering at Lebanese American UniversityBaccalaureate, General Sciences, Baccalaureate, General Sciences at Al-Ahliah SchoolBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical and Computer Engineering at American University of BeirutMaster's degree, Computer Science, 4.0, Master's degree, Computer Science, 4.0 at University of Waterloo
English, Arabic
Github Skills (10)
r-telegram-bot10
javas10
telegram-bot-api10
java-libraries10
java10
telegram-bot10
mockito9
spring-boot9
junit9
maven8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rubenlagus/TelegramBots
Jan 2019 - Jul 2021
Java library to create bots using Telegram Bots API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 reviews, 28 commits, 30 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Abbas primarily contributed to the Java library for creating Telegram bots, focusing on refactoring and test improvements. They consolidated objects and refactored code in the `BaseAbilityBot` class, ensuring code maintainability and structure. Additionally, they modified tests to accommodate JUnit5 and Mockito API changes, supporting the library's ongoing development. The user also implemented features like database backup and recovery, supporting the long-term data persistence of the bot.
javatelegram-bottelegram-bots-apiwebhookjava-library
addo47/TelegramBots
Jun 2017 - Jul 2021
Java library to create bots using Telegram Bots API
Contributions:49 pushes, 23 branches in 4 years
telegram-bots-apitelegram-botapitelegram-botsjava-library
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