Faizan Qazi
Member Of Technical Staff at Cockroach Labs
Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolFaizan Qazi is a backend-focused software engineer with five years of professional experience building and evolving database systems, currently a Member of Technical Staff at Cockroach Labs in Ontario. He has deep hands-on expertise in declarative schema change mechanics, contributing to the widely used CockroachDB by implementing features like foreign keys and composite index support and by resolving subtle edge cases around column drops and function dependencies. Prior to Cockroach Labs he spent a decade at IBM on the DB2 codebase across intern, student, developer, and staff roles, giving him a strong foundation in enterprise database internals and long-lived product development. Faizan combines rigorous attention to correctness with practical experience shipping critical backend changes in distributed SQL systems, and his work reflects a rare blend of legacy RDBMS knowledge and cloud-native database engineering.
5 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
York University
Github Skills (7)
foreign-keys10
indices10
go10
postgresql10
sql10
code-review9
database-design9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cockroachdb/cockroach
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
CockroachDB — the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, effortless scale, and control over data placement.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1675 reviews, 447 commits, 874 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Faizan's contributions focused on implementing new features and addressing bugs within the CockroachDB codebase, specifically related to schema changes. They demonstrated expertise in modifying the declarative schema changer to support features like foreign keys and composite indexes, as well as addressing edge cases with existing features like dropping columns and handling function dependencies. The commits consistently involved changes to core schema management components, including building SQL statements, managing database object references, and validating index configurations.
distributed-sqldistributed-sql-databasemysqlsql-databasesql
fqazi/cockroach
Feb 2021 - Apr 2025
CockroachDB - the open source, cloud-native distributed SQL database.
Contributions:2981 pushes, 616 branches in 4 years 1 month
distributed-sqloltpdistributed-sql-databasemysqlsql-database
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