Hamdaan Khalid
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolHamdaan Khalid is a Senior Software Engineer in Seattle with seven years of experience building high-performance, concurrent systems and databases. With a mathematics background from Purdue, he brings rigorous problem-solving to systems programming and multi-threaded performance tuning. At Microsoft he has focused on database internals and remote cache-store work, contributing notable fixes and features to the Microsoft Garnet project (AOF reliability, ETag support, recovery and transaction optimizations). He moves between low-level storage concerns and pragmatic microservice design, shipping production-grade code and tests. Outside of work he has a history of automating workflows in Python and contributing to research projects, signaling both engineering depth and curiosity.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics at Purdue University
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Github Skills (17)
key-value10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
low-latency9
latency9
persistent-storage9
concurrency9
transaction-manager8
hashtable8
transactionscope8
transaction8
cluster-computing7
clustering7
scalable7
database6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/garnet
Jul 2024 - Mar 2025
Garnet is a remote cache-store from Microsoft Research that offers strong performance (throughput and latency), scalability, storage, recovery, cluster sharding, key migration, and replication features. Garnet can work with existing Redis clients.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:60 reviews, 18 PRs, 69 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Hamdaan primarily focused on enhancing the AOF (Append-Only File) functionality within the Garnet project, addressing issues related to AOF commit blocking, header versioning, and recovery processes. They implemented bug fixes, added tests, and introduced new features like ETag support with SETIFGREATER commands. Their contributions also included refactoring and optimizing code related to transaction management and storage operations.
cachecache-storageclusterconcurrenthash-table
hamdaankhalid/data-structures-algorithm-for-cuties
Dec 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:252 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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