Ahmad Abedalqader
Software Engineer (L4) at Kong Inc.
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAhmad Abedalqader is a software engineer with six years of experience building developer infrastructure and distributed systems, currently contributing to Kong Konnect from Victoria, BC. He brings deep Go and cloud tooling expertise from multiple roles at Cockroach Labs, where he refactored and library-ified roachprod and helped cut CI time and cost dramatically. Comfortable across backend, DevOps, and CI/bazel ecosystems, he has shipped multi-tenant upgrades and integrated testing tooling for a well-known open-source database, CockroachDB. Ahmad’s pragmatic approach blends hands-on optimization (machine-type tuning for CI) with careful API and context propagation in tooling. He’s equally at home debugging low-level system interactions and designing scalable cloud workflows, a versatility honed during internships at Nokia and Cockroach Labs. Colleagues describe him as a problem-finder who pairs technical rigor with a knack for making complex infrastructure maintainable.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Victoria
Github Skills (12)
testing10
go10
devops10
cicd10
database9
admin9
distributed-systems9
database-administration9
databases9
dockers7
docker7
automated-tests7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
cockroachdb/cockroach
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
CockroachDB — the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, effortless scale, and control over data placement.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:214 reviews, 129 commits, 185 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Ahmad primarily worked on improving the `roachprod` tooling within the CockroachDB repository, refactoring and library-ifying the codebase for better maintainability and integration with other tools. Their contributions involved synchronizing access to shared resources, fixing issues with cluster extension, and addressing node URL parsing problems. The user also updated the code to handle and propagate context appropriately, while integrating the roachprod library with the testing framework, roachtest. Further, the user added support for a new command called `get-providers` and fixed issues related to the execution of the tests, which demonstrates a good understanding of testing, building, and releasing.
distributed-sqldistributed-sql-databasemysqlsql-databasesql
healthy-pod/cockroach
Sep 2021 - Nov 2023
CockroachDB - the open source, cloud-native distributed SQL database.
Contributions:1027 pushes, 198 branches in 2 years 1 month
distributed-sqloltpdistributed-sql-databasemysqlsql-database
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