Haidar Hadi is a Senior Data Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 12 years of experience building large-scale, production data platforms that turn the “firehose” of enterprise data into clear, actionable insight. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Spark, Scala, Hadoop ecosystems and AWS with a strong emphasis on usability, testing and operational reliability—having delivered end-to-end pipelines that process billions of records and dramatically cut processing times. His background spans product, solutions and executive-facing roles, so he routinely translates technical tradeoffs into business value and trains teams for adoption. An active contributor to open-source projects, he’s added Joda-Time support to Twitter’s bijection library and strengthened test automation for Alluxio’s data orchestration codebase, showing attention to interoperability and system integrity. Colleagues rely on him as a pragmatic pioneer who both scouts paradigm-changing tools and makes them consumable for non‑expert business users.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Commercial Psychology, BS, Commercial Psychology at San Francisco State University
BS, Information Technology, BS, Information Technology at San Francisco State University, Lam Family College of Business
Contributions summary:Haidar primarily contributed to the `bijection` repository by adding support for Joda-Time library. They introduced new classes and bijections for converting between `java.util.Date` and `org.joda.time.DateTime` objects, including string and long representations. Additionally, the user updated the project's build configuration by adding the `nscala-time` dependency to support Joda-Time functionality. Several commits focused on refactoring the code, creating a new package and removing some bijections, which shows active contribution and iterative improvement.
Alluxio, data orchestration for analytics and machine learning in the cloud
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:8 commits, 8 PRs, 19 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Haidar contributed significantly to the test suite within the Alluxio project. They added multiple test cases focused on the "pin" command, demonstrating an understanding of file pinning functionality and eviction behavior. The commits cover file pinning, unpinning, and scenarios with memory limitations to prevent file eviction, showing a focus on system integrity and functionality testing. The user also addressed code indentation issues, improving test code readability.
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