Asjad Syed
Founding Engineer at HalalEatsNC
Cary, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAsjad Syed is a Founding Engineer with 10 years of experience building high-impact, production-grade systems across Python, Java, SQL, Linux, cloud, and distributed architectures. He designs and ships secure, auditable infrastructure—from automating validator spin-up and Solidity contracts for a non-custodial Ethereum staking platform to running a community-curated Java/Spring Boot discovery site serving thousands of users. At Facebook he owned Presto releases and cut on-call toil with root-cause analyzers and automated regression testing for petabyte-scale analytics, and he has contributed fixes to the well-known Presto open-source engine around SQL type casting. Comfortable across full-stack and infrastructure boundaries, he combines rigorous test coverage and security-first practices (100% Foundry tests, zero critical audit findings) with pragmatic product delivery. Based in Cary, NC, he pairs startup founding experience with large-company operational discipline, making him effective at both rapid iteration and reliable scale. An interesting through-line: he repeatedly focuses on correctness and observability—fixing subtle casting behaviors in Presto and eliminating dashboard failures that masked system state.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (8)
javas10
query-engine10
presto10
sql10
datatypes10
java10
testing9
big-data9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
prestodb/presto
Mar 2022 - Aug 2022
The official home of the Presto distributed SQL query engine for big data
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:31 reviews, 13 commits, 6 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Asjad's contributions primarily involve reverting and modifying code related to type casting operations within the Presto query engine. This includes changes to casting of numeric types to bounded varchar and the formatting of double values to varchar. The commits focus on correcting behavior related to SQL standard compliance and addressing issues discovered during testing of various cast operations. The changes span multiple test files, indicating a focus on ensuring the correctness and consistency of type casting functionalities.
big-dataprestosql-queryjavahive
asjadsyed/windowpane
Sep 2016 - Mar 2019
Contributions:26 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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