Hamdan Javeed
Senior Software Engineer at Block
Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolHamdan Javeed is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building backend systems, currently working on Square Cash at Block out of Ontario, Canada. He brings deep systems and distributed-systems experience from roles at NVIDIA and multiple startups, and has a strong backend focus evidenced by contributions to the popular cashapp/misk repo—improving Redis client safety, SSL/auth, byte-array support, and SQS latency metrics. Comfortable across the stack, he has delivered production integrations ranging from hardware-linked mobile features to web scraping and chat services. Known for pragmatic refactors that improve reliability and observability, he combines a Waterloo software engineering pedigree with hands-on experience in high-throughput, test-conscious environments.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Ontario Secondary School Diploma, Ontario Secondary School Diploma at Stephen Lewis Secondary SchoolQatar AcademyBachelor of Software Engineering, Software Engineering, Bachelor of Software Engineering, Software Engineering at University of Waterloo
English, Urdu
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Github Skills (8)
jedi10
back-end-development10
redis10
bytestring10
java9
javas9
metric8
aws6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cashapp/misk
Oct 2018 - Apr 2022
Microservice Kontainer
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 27 commits, 32 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Hamdan primarily focused on enhancing the `misk-redis` module within the `misk` repository. Their contributions involved refactoring the Redis client, including migration to JedisPool for thread safety, adding functionality to set/get ByteArrays, and properly authenticating the JedisPool. They also addressed code comments and enabled SSL, and introduced latency metrics for SQS operations. The user also added support for feature flag keys with dollar signs.
dockermicroservicemicroservices
hamdanjaveed/dotfiles
Feb 2015 - Apr 2022
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 3 months
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