Foyzur Rahman
Principal Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolFoyzur Rahman is a Principal Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with over a decade of experience designing and shipping distributed analytics systems, currently reimagining Amazon Redshift at AWS. He has led and contributed to high-impact Redshift features—concurrency scaling, Data Sharing, and Serverless—and architected Lake Formation–governed datashares that launched at re:Invent. His expertise spans metadata and transaction management, federated AuthN/AuthZ, planning/execution, isolation semantics, and building for high availability, scalability and fault tolerance on AWS primitives like S3, DynamoDB, IAM and Lake Formation. A former Greenplum and Apache HAWQ core contributor, he blends hands-on engineering with deep research: his UC Davis Ph.D. studied misalignments in software quality models using large-scale mining and ML. Known for accelerating Redshift startup times and designing resilient query operators and memory frameworks, he pairs systems-level rigor with practical delivery and rows 20K each morning—evidence of discipline that informs his leadership and execution.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at University of California, DavisBS Computer Science and Engineering, BS Computer Science and Engineering at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Github Skills (47)
greenplum10
postgresql10
parallel10
data-warehouse10
data-platform10
analytics10
database10
sveltekit9
javascript9
nestjs9
machine-learning9
photo9
warehouse9
photo-gallery9
sql9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
foyzur/gpdb
Nov 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:256 pushes, 72 branches, 20 comments in 1 year 9 months
sqlgreenplumpivotaldatabasegreenplum-database
foyzur/incubator-hawq
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 11 days
javaincubatingapachehawq
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