Dhia Ayachi
Senior Software Engineering II at HashiCorp
Laval, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDhia Ayachi is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient distributed systems and video/embedded software, currently advancing core infrastructure at HashiCorp from Laval, Quebec. He blends hands-on backend and DevOps work—contributing to high-profile open-source projects like HashiCorp Consul and a Go Raft implementation—with a track record of improving reliability, leader election, RPC retry logic, and developer tooling. His background spans telecom and multimedia domains at Bell, Ericsson, and Octasic, giving him deep systems-level intuition for performance and debugging. Known for technical leadership and clear communication, he pairs pragmatic problem solving with a strong emphasis on code quality and testability. An uncommon strength is his cross-domain expertise from embedded video pipelines to cloud-native consensus algorithms, enabling him to bridge low-level performance constraints and large-scale distributed design.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
2006, informatique industrielle, 2006, informatique industrielle at institut national des sciences appliquées et de la technologieLycée père blancMaitrise, Microélectronique, Maitrise, Microélectronique at Université du Québec - Ecole de Technologie supérieure
Arabic, French, English
Github Skills (16)
consul10
distributed-systems10
rpc10
go10
raft10
system-design10
golangci-lint10
raft-protocol10
concurrency10
testing10
api-design9
devops9
debug9
api9
debugging9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/consul
May 2021 - Jan 2023
Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:679 reviews, 423 commits, 343 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Dhia primarily contributed to infrastructure improvements and code quality upgrades. Their work focused on upgrading and fixing issues related to the golangci-lint tool, enhancing code maintainability. Furthermore, they removed a CLI check and improved debug endpoint error messages, indicating involvement in back-end API and debugging. Additionally, they addressed RPC timeout and retry mechanisms, showcasing an understanding of network communication and system resilience within the Consul project.
api-gatewayecsgolangcenterdistributed
hashicorp/raft
Oct 2021 - Nov 2022
Golang implementation of the Raft consensus protocol
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & System Architect
Back-end Developer & System ArchitectContributions:8 releases, 59 reviews, 22 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Dhia primarily focused on improving the Raft consensus protocol's implementation in Go. They addressed critical issues related to leader election, node membership changes (removal and non-voter transitions), and leadership transfer gaps. The user also implemented pre-vote functionality to optimize leader election and enhanced the test suite. Their work directly impacts the stability and correctness of the consensus algorithm.
golangraft-consensusraft-consensus-algorithmconsensus-protocolconsensus
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