Felix Hanau
Systems Engineer at Cloudflare
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFelix Hanau is a Systems Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating resilient infrastructure, currently focused on Cloudflare's distributed systems in New York. He pairs strong academic credentials—a MS in Computer Science from Columbia (3.9 GPA) and a BS in Statistics & Computer Science from UIUC—with practical intern-to-staff progression at Cloudflare, reflecting deep familiarity with production reliability and networking at scale. His background includes research roles at Columbia and hands-on support and teaching at UIUC, indicating an ability to translate research insights into operational improvements. Colleagues would describe him as someone who bridges rigorous analysis and pragmatic engineering, often surfacing subtle efficiency gains that improve system observability and uptime.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.9/4.0, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.9/4.0 at Columbia University in the City of New YorkBachelor of Science - BS, Statistics and Computer Science, 3.7/4.0, Bachelor of Science - BS, Statistics and Computer Science, 3.7/4.0 at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, German
Github Skills (115)
lz410
mozjpeg10
cap10
compression-algorithm10
lzma10
zopfli10
proto10
snappy10
extensible10
compression10
serverless10
cpp10
markdown10
javascript10
image-optimization10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
fhanau/Efficient-Compression-Tool
Jun 2015 - Jan 2023
Contributions:20 releases, 6 reviews, 620 commits in 7 years 8 months
cppdeflatelosslesseffectivecompression
fhanau/zlib
Aug 2019 - Sep 2024
Cloudflare fork of zlib with massive performance improvements
Contributions:1 push, 8 branches in 5 years 2 months
cloudflareperformanceimprovementszlibcloudflare-workers
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