Ahmed Hassan
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAhmed Hassan is a Software Development Engineer II at AWS with six years of hands-on experience building scalable backend and observability solutions. He specializes in cloud-native systems and metrics observability, contributing to Prometheus ecosystem projects like Cortex where he improved query performance, logging, and reliability. His path includes progressive roles at AWS (intern → SDE I → SDE II) and co-op experiences in networking and telecom, giving him practical DevOps and infrastructure depth. Based in Vancouver, he pairs strong backend development skills with a collaborative mentorship mindset and a track record of turning production issues into measurable improvements.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering at Memorial University, Newfoundland and Labrador
Github Skills (12)
testing10
monitoring10
go10
prometheus10
back-end-development10
protobuffer10
protobuf10
devops9
kubernetes-pods9
kubernetes9
caching9
cnc8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cortexproject/cortex
Jun 2023 - Mar 2025
A horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long term Prometheus.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:41 reviews, 15 PRs, 44 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Ahmed primarily contributed to the back-end infrastructure and testing aspects of the Cortex project. Their work involved adding protobuf codecs for query responses, fixing flaky tests, and adding new features to query processing, such as implementing day range limits for label queries. Furthermore, the user made contributions to improve logging and debugging, with features to log query requests and track request start times. The commits also indicate a focus on optimizing query performance through dynamic splitting and cache integration.
golangscalabletenantprometheus-exporterlong-term
afhassan/cortex
Jun 2023 - Mar 2025
A horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long term Prometheus.
Contributions:23 reviews, 4 PRs, 140 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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