Ayaz Hafiz
Co-Founder at Treater
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAyaz Hafiz is a software engineer and entrepreneur with nine years of experience building compilers, language tools, and full‑stack developer tooling. As Co‑Founder of Treater and former compiler engineer at Google, he bridges product thinking and deep technical work—shipping improvements to Rust formatting, Angular’s language service, and TypeScript indexing for Kythe. His contributions to highly visible open‑source projects show an unusual blend of front‑end template/typecheck expertise and back‑end code‑indexing/formatter correctness. He has a strong academic foundation in mathematics and computer science from Vanderbilt and a track record of shipping infrastructure used by large codebases. Outside of product roles he has steered CI/CD and startup efforts, indicating both operator instincts and systems‑level engineering chops.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics and Computer Science at Vanderbilt University
Russian, English
Github Skills (28)
javascript10
formatting10
language-service10
typescript10
formatter10
vscode-extension10
indexing10
text-formatting10
manipulation10
indices10
indexer10
formatters10
typescript-types10
rustfmt10
html10
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
angular/vscode-ng-language-service
Aug 2019 - Dec 2020
Angular extension for Visual Studio Code
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:96 reviews, 48 commits, 293 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Ayaz focused on improving the Angular language service extension for Visual Studio Code. They implemented and tested syntax highlighting for inline HTML templates, CSS styles within components, interpolations, property bindings, two-way bindings, and template bindings. Furthermore, the user added a command to view template typecheck blocks within the editor. The user also made changes to build scripts to handle syntax files and incremental compilation caches.
visual-studio-codevscodevscode-extensionintellisenselanguage-server
rust-lang/rustfmt
May 2020 - Aug 2020
Format Rust code
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:64 commits, 52 PRs, 144 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Ayaz primarily focused on improving the `rustfmt` code formatter by addressing issues related to formatting and preserving specific code elements. They made several commits focused on correctly formatting type aliases within extern blocks, ensuring that generics, bounds, and assignments were properly handled. Furthermore, the user worked on correctly indenting code within the formatter and addressed comment preservation in various contexts, including empty statements and table-related comments.
rustcodeformatterformatterrustfmt
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