Ammar Aijazi
Datastores Engineer
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmmar Aijazi is an engineering manager and backend-focused systems engineer with 11 years of experience designing and scaling distributed systems, currently leading a product team to improve AI agent capabilities at Render. His background spans core database infrastructure (notably contributions to Vitess for sharded MySQL and transaction/query handling), SRE rotations supporting Android core services, and product-facing work on build/deploy pipelines and Kubernetes-backed Postgres/Redis hosting. He blends hands-on implementation—having been the primary developer for Render’s MCP server and contributor to Vitess’ replication and resharding workflows—with operational rigor from on-call SRE experience. Comfortable across backend, reliability, and mobile domains, Ammar favors pragmatic automation and observability to make complex systems easier to run and evolve.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical and Computer Engineering, BS Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (11)
databases10
transactionscope10
transaction10
rpc10
go10
transaction-manager10
relational-databases10
mysql10
sql-database10
database10
concurrency9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
vitessio/vitess
Oct 2014 - Apr 2016
Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:340 commits, 189 PRs, 218 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Ammar implemented and refined features related to transaction handling and query processing within the Vitess database system. Their contributions focused on the writeMastersOnly strategy for the split_clone worker, involving modifications to the core data handling and replication code. This included improvements to efficiency of master tablet lookups and the correction of errors in stream execution for RPC calls.
mysqltidbhorizontal-scalingsqlvitess
aaijazi/volley
Oct 2018 - Aug 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 11 months
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