Hazel Ward
Planning Engineer at Razorpay
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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SeniorHazel Ward is a Planning Engineer based in Portland, Oregon, with 11 years of experience solving practical problems by digging into how systems actually work. At Razorpay she blends planning and engineering judgment to drive reliable execution in complex environments. A hands-on contributor in backend tooling and test automation, she enhanced WinappDebug for the Winapp2 project—adding syntax checks, auto-corrections, and richer error reporting that make maintenance workflows more actionable. Colleagues know her for pragmatic debugging skills and a taste for filesystem-level details, hinted at by her GitHub moniker "filesystem ghoul." She brings a mix of operational rigor and developer empathy that helps teams turn opaque failure modes into repeatable fixes. Hazel’s curiosity about underlying mechanics often uncovers small changes that yield outsized reliability gains.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (8)
unit-testing10
debugging10
debug10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
test-automation10
testing9
code-analysis9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
MoscaDotTo/Winapp2
Aug 2016 - Dec 2022
A database of extended cleaning routines for popular Windows PC based maintenance software.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:4 releases, 3 reviews, 814 commits in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Hazel primarily worked on the winapp2.ini project's internal debugging tools, WinappDebug. Their commits focused on enhancing the tool's functionality by adding new checks for various syntax and formatting errors within the .ini files and extending the system's testing capabilities. They implemented rules to automatically correct or provide suggestions for fixing inconsistencies and also improved the key listing process and reporting mechanisms in WinappDebug, resulting in more informative and actionable error reports.
software-maintenanceccleaner-userssystem-ninjacleaningbleachbit
MoscaDotTo/PipeSnake
Jun 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch, 2 issues in 1 year 10 months
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