Faiyaz Hasan
Senior Software Engineer at NorthStar Earth & Space
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolFaiyaz Hasan is a Senior Software Engineer based in Montreal with 10 years of experience building high-performance compute services, cloud infrastructure, and orbit dynamics software. He combines a PhD-level background in math and physics with hands-on expertise in backend development, DevOps, and ML—having been a core developer on the open-source Covalent orchestration project and maintained its AWS/Terraform cloud offerings. His work spans Kubernetes and AWS production deployments, CI/CD automation, and mission-focused engineering for satellite orbit determination at NorthStar Earth & Space. Formerly he led data and ML teams that shipped recommendation and tutoring models, and earlier research in quantum algorithms and ion-trap decoherence hints at a deep affinity for complex numerical problems. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who moves between research-grade numerical algorithms and robust, production-ready infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Physics at McMaster UniversityBachelor's degree Mathematics and Physics Specialist Program, Bachelor's degree Mathematics and Physics Specialist Program at University of Toronto
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
workflow-management10
python10
cli10
data-pipelines9
devops9
testing9
data-pipeline9
orchestration9
orchestra9
docker8
machine-learning8
dockers8
unit-testing6
mocking6
monkey-patching6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
AgnostiqHQ/covalent
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Pythonic tool for orchestrating machine-learning/high performance/quantum-computing workflows in heterogeneous compute environments.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:337 reviews, 146 commits, 159 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Faiyaz contributed to the Covalent dispatcher, implementing features like directory setup and server management. They also introduced server status checking functions and added tests for various command-line interface (CLI) commands, including start, stop, and restart functionalities. Additionally, the user addressed bugs and refactored the dispatcher, demonstrating proficiency in Python-based backend development and DevOps practices for managing the Covalent platform. They also helped to add a tutorial for a MNIST classifier.
high-performancepythonworkflow-automationwatsonscience
FyzHsn/ml-classification-exploration
Aug 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:42 commits, 2 PRs, 39 pushes in 1 month
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