Hedayat Vatankhah
Senior Software Engineer at Fedora Project
Istanbul, Türkiye Turkey
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Top SchoolHedayat Vatankhah is a senior software engineer with 19 years of experience building high-performance C/C++ systems, distributed architectures, real-time data processing, and cloud-native deployments. Based in Istanbul, he has deep hands-on expertise across the full product lifecycle—from Linux kernel drivers and USB HID interfacing to PostgreSQL-backed analytics, Kubernetes/Helm orchestration, and backend services. An active open-source contributor, he has improved core functionality in notable projects like OpenCog’s AtomSpace and Telegram’s tgl library, demonstrating proficiency with build systems, threading, and dependency integration. His academic background in artificial intelligence complements practical work on graph databases and agent systems, enabling him to design complex business solutions from scratch. Notably, he combines low-level systems craftsmanship with modern cloud practices, making him adept at bridging legacy performance needs and contemporary distributed platforms.
19 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Amirkabir University of TechnologyB.Sc, Computer Science, B.Sc, Computer Science at University of Isfahan
English, Persian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (33)
c-language10
zeromq10
back-end-development10
atomics10
cmake10
atomic10
backend10
cprogramming-language10
develop9
code-optimization9
multithreading9
agi9
hyper-threading9
scheme9
thread9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
vysheng/tgl
Jul 2015 - Oct 2015
telegram library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 9 PRs, 4 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Hedayat made several code changes to improve the C++ compatibility and fix warnings within the Telegram library. They added explicit casts to address compile errors and modified code to adhere to C++ standards. The user also replaced `get_string` with `get_values` and addressed an assertion issue related to connection closures, indicating a focus on code quality and stability.
telegram-bottelegrammtprototelegram-apitelegram-client
opencog/opencog
Oct 2015 - Feb 2016
A framework for integrated Artificial Intelligence & Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:42 commits, 12 PRs, 29 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Hedayat primarily focused on enhancing the server-side functionality of the OpenCog project. Their commits demonstrate expertise in CMake, used for building the project, and include fixes for library dependencies, particularly for the AtomSpace libraries. They made improvements to agent running logic and threading support, including refactoring code and adding documentation for the SimpleRunner class. The user also made minor improvements to the code, like spelling and whitespace fixes.
unsupervised-learning-algorithmsroboticsnatural-language-understandingartificial-general-intelligenceintegrated
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