Hamad Khawaja is a Principal Engineer and cloud solutions architect with a decade of experience designing scalable systems and leading cross-functional teams at Optum. He excels at translating complex requirements into elegant, production-ready software while mentoring engineers and driving technical excellence across the stack. Comfortable debugging thorny problems, he stays curious about emerging tech trends — from AI and blockchain to quantum computing — and applies that curiosity to practical architecture decisions. Based in the Greater Chicago area, he pairs a pragmatic engineering approach with strategic thinking, and outside work pursues pattern recognition and planning over the chessboard.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 3.46 GPA, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 3.46 GPA at Central Connecticut State University
Contributions:20 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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