Adil Hafeez
CTO & Co-founder Katanemo Labs (acq. By DigitalOcean) Now DigitalOcean
Woodinville, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAdil Hafeez is a seasoned software leader and founder with 10 years of experience building distributed systems, infrastructure, and AI agent platforms. As CTO and co-founder of Katanemo Labs — now part of DigitalOcean — he led development of Plano, a framework-agnostic data plane and orchestration stack that abstracts observability, safety, and model routing to simplify taking AI agents from prototype to production. His career spans senior engineering roles at Lyft, Dropbox, AWS, and Microsoft, where he focused on high-throughput event ingestion, service networking, distributed storage, and search relevance. Adil blends hands-on systems engineering with product-focused architecture, shipping low-latency, durable services at scale. Based in Woodinville, WA, he pairs startup grit with enterprise experience and a knack for turning complex infrastructure plumbing into developer-friendly platforms. An early pattern in his work is making opaque, hard-to-operate systems predictable and automatable so teams can focus on building features instead of managing infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at University of Central Punjab
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Github Skills (87)
python10
proxy10
oh-my-zsh10
prompt10
llm-inference10
dataplane10
llmops10
sql10
ai10
generative-ai10
golang10
shell10
database10
cli10
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
katanemo/plano
Oct 2024 - Jul 2026
Plano is an AI-native proxy server and data plane for agentic apps. Smart LLM routing, observability, agent orchestration, and guardrails so you stay focused on your agents core logic.
Contributions:39 releases, 222 reviews, 386 PRs in 1 year 9 months
agenticaidataplanellmobservability
lyft/mgo
Jan 2017 - Oct 2019
The MongoDB driver for Go. See http://labix.org/mgo for details.
Contributions:3 releases, 42 commits, 22 PRs in 2 years 9 months
gomgomongodb-driver
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