Summary
Hadi Khodabandeh is a software engineer and recent PhD graduate from UC Irvine with 11 years of industry and research experience focused on cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and graph algorithms. He now works at Google building reliable cloud multicast for financial applications, after multiple internships and a student researcher stint there that combined C++, Python, and ML for storage and networking problems. His doctoral work in theoretical computer science informs a pragmatic approach to large-scale system design, bridging rigorous algorithms research with production engineering. Early career roles ranging from web startups to research positions at Max Planck and HKUST show a consistent thread of performance optimization and algorithmic thinking. Notably, his internship work contributed to a patent and his student-led projects include end-to-end platform engineering for competitive AI events.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Sharif University of Technology
Gold Medal, Mathematics, Gold Medal, Mathematics at Young Scholars Club
High School, Mathematics & Physics, High School, Mathematics & Physics at Mirza Koochak Khan Rasht (NODET)
University of California, Irvine