Hamza zia
Founder And CEO at GitStart
Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, United States
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Top SchoolHamza Zia is a founder and CEO with 14 years of engineering experience building and scaling distributed engineering teams and product platforms across San Francisco, Zurich, Shanghai and Hong Kong. He founded GitStart, a Y Combinator-backed "Pull Requests as a Service" startup that runs a fully remote engineering organization of 70+ engineers to help companies ship features faster and reduce management overhead. Earlier roles include impactful engineering work at Microsoft (Azure and VS Code/Monaco), leading architecture and product at Montemedia in Zurich, and technical leadership at Rainforest QA where he implemented analytics embedding and a custom WebRTC streaming server to cut bandwidth for remote testing. He started building companies very young—dropping out to launch an e-commerce platform and later founding Parle, which reached 50k users—and combines hands-on full‑stack coding with operator-level scaling playbooks. An active open-source contributor, his work ranges from front-end UI rewrites for aria2 to backend improvements in Redash and legacy contributions to DownThemAll!, reflecting a pragmatic focus on developer tooling and data-driven workflows. Based in Hong Kong, he blends startup grit, global team-building expertise, and deep cloud platform experience to turn engineering processes into repeatable growth engines.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessS19, S19 at Y CombinatorComputer Science, Computer Science at ETH ZürichHong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Github Skills (23)
javascript10
postgresql10
bootstrap10
python10
apidoc10
css10
user-interface10
ui-design10
interface-design10
api10
sql10
html10
file-handling10
bootstra10
redash9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ziahamza/webui-aria2
May 2012 - Sep 2021
The aim for this project is to create the worlds best and hottest interface to interact with aria2. Very simple to use, just download and open index.html in any web browser.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:395 commits, 197 PRs, 160 pushes in 9 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Hamza primarily focused on front-end development, as evidenced by commits that introduce a new UI interface using Bootstrap. They redesigned the user interface, removing the previous Dojo framework, and added new features such as download control buttons, settings, filters, and global statistics, and various bug fixes. The commits involved styling, HTML structure, and JavaScript for UI interactions within the context of aria2 web client.
aimbrowserindexweb-appjavascript
getredash/redash
Jan 2017 - May 2017
Make Your Company Data Driven. Connect to any data source, easily visualize, dashboard and share your data.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 12 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Hamza primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Redash project, specifically focusing on enhancing the API and query execution capabilities. Their work involved modifying the `embed.py` and `query_results.py` files to allow parameterized queries in embedded dashboards and to improve the handling of query results. The changes suggest an effort to refine how queries are processed and displayed within the Redash platform, adding functionality for dynamic queries. They also made changes to the front-end configuration and codebase.
pythondatacompany-datavisualizebusiness-intelligence
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