Amanj Sherwany
Senior Engineering Manager at Optable
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolAmanJ Sherwany is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Montreal with 11 years of experience building data-driven systems, compilers, and full-stack web and Android applications. He has progressed from hands-on roles in Spark, Kafka, and Scala to leading engineering teams at Optable and Samsung Ads, driving reporting, insights, and targeting platforms that operate on massive datasets. With a PhD background in programming languages and compilers, he brings a rare combination of research-grade rigor and production engineering discipline to architectural and performance challenges. Known for mentoring cross-functional teams and shipping end-to-end solutions, he bridges low-level systems thinking with product-focused delivery. An early founder and ongoing practitioner, he blends startup grit with enterprise-scale impact, often surfacing non-obvious optimizations from his compiler and language design expertise.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Software Engineering, BSc Software Engineering at Salahaddin University-ErbilDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at USI Università della Svizzera italianaM.Sc. Computer Science, M.Sc. Computer Science at Uppsala University
Kurdish, English, Arabic, Italian, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (119)
sbt-plugin10
macros10
compiler-plugin10
sbt10
dotty10
chess-engine10
stockfish9
uci9
api9
language-server-protocol9
autocomplete9
linter9
zinc9
uci-protocol9
linting9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
amanjpro/rusmtp
Feb 2018 - Jun 2020
A simple SMTP daemon
Contributions:13 releases, 61 PRs, 209 pushes in 2 years 5 months
daemonmailsmtpaio
adgear/anoa
Mar 2018 - Feb 2020
A Java library for robust manipulation and serialization of data structures based on common formats.
Contributions:5 pushes, 3 branches, 1 tag in 1 year 11 months
manipulationjava-librarybinary-serializationdeserializationserialization
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