Hamid Akhtar
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Pakistan
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Top SchoolHamid Akhtar is a Senior Software Engineer with two decades of hands-on experience designing robust application architectures, leading teams, and driving DevOps and product efforts—now building at Microsoft after senior roles at pgEdge and Percona. He is a passionate C/C++ and PostgreSQL specialist who has contributed to PostgreSQL work and shipped performance tools like pg_stat_monitor while bridging engineering and product as a former Technical Product Manager. Hamid has a proven track record of delivering complex systems from embedded C/C++ ports and telecom IVR to large-scale ERP and expert diagnostic systems, and he enjoys tackling low-level database internals as much as higher-level product problems. Based in Pakistan, he combines entrepreneurial grit from founding startups with enterprise experience at EnterpriseDB and high-impact open-source volunteering, making him equally comfortable in a codebase or a strategic roadmap room.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
IBMYP, IBMYP at Vienna International School, AustriaInternational Baccalaureate Middle Years Program, International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program at Vienna International SchoolB.Sc., Computer Systems Engineering, B.Sc., Computer Systems Engineering at Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology
Urdu, English, German
Github Skills (12)
databases10
c-language10
database-administration10
postgresql10
cprogramming-language10
admin10
database10
performance-optimization9
database-design9
distributed-systems8
distributed-database8
sql8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
HighgoSoftware/orc_fdw
Jun 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:4 releases, 8 commits, 8 pushes in 2 months
hqakhtar/postgres-tde-ext
Sep 2023 - Apr 2024
Contributions:38 pushes in 6 months
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