Hamzah Qudsi
Founding Engineer at Antimetal
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHamzah Qudsi is a founding engineer and seasoned backend/cloud engineer with 8 years building production-grade, cloud-native systems from MLOps and data infrastructure to API gateways. Based in New York, he has led cloud infrastructure and platform work at startups and scale-ups including Ambassador Labs, Esusu, and Kensho, and now helps shape product and technology strategy at Antimetal. He contributes to prominent open-source projects like Emissary (a Kubernetes-native API gateway built on Envoy), where he focused on backend reliability, test hygiene, and performance improvements such as batching raw updates and tunable update intervals. Comfortable toggling between hands-on engineering and technical leadership, he brings an economist’s quantitative rigor (NYU, Economics/Math) to designing efficient, observable distributed systems.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Economics/Mathematics, Bachelor's degree Economics/Mathematics at New York University
Github Skills (17)
env10
kubernetes10
docker10
envoyproxy10
dockers10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
convoy10
testing9
go-testing9
api-gateway9
kubernetes-ingress9
api-management8
cloud-native8
cicd8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
emissary-ingress/emissary
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
open source Kubernetes-native API gateway for microservices built on the Envoy Proxy
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:259 reviews, 55 commits, 84 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Hamzah's contributions primarily involve enhancing the project's backend and improving its maintainability. They added health check endpoints for debugging, implemented cleanup functions in tests to prevent test pollution, and introduced batching of raw updates for efficiency. Furthermore, they incorporated new environment variables to control update intervals, reflecting a focus on optimizing the system's performance and resource usage. The user also fixed a diagnostics endpoint issue, ensuring data consistency.
api-gatewayproxyreverse-proxyambassadorapi-management
antimetal/terraform-provider-antimetal
Apr 2024 - Dec 2024
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 13 pushes in 7 months
terraform-provider
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