Hamid Koushki is a Staff Engineer based in the Netherlands with over a decade of experience designing and delivering large-scale, cloud-native distributed systems. He combines deep expertise in software architecture, microservices, event-driven and serverless patterns with hands-on skills in CI/CD, performance tuning and complex debugging. Hamid has progressed through senior and principal engineering roles at companies like Mollie, Sendcloud and eBay, consistently driving scalability and high-availability improvements. An active contributor to open-source PHP tooling, he has fixed routing, validation and session bugs in the lithium framework and added tests that improved robustness for MongoDB casting and model validation. Known for translating technical trade-offs to stakeholders, he blends pragmatic engineering with a strong emphasis on reliability and measurable operational outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Information Technology, Associate's degree, Information Technology at Payame Noor University (Distance Education)
li₃ is the fast, flexible and most RAD development framework for PHP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Contributions:13 commits, 3 PRs, 11 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Hamid primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements related to the router and data validation components of the framework. They addressed issues in routing logic, especially regarding scope and absolute paths. Furthermore, the user implemented tests to validate model validation rules, including required field handling, and fixed a bug related to date casting in MongoDB queries. They also added tests for session management.
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