Hormoz Kheradmand
Owner Director at Studio360 Dubai
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolHormoz Kheradmand is an infrastructure-focused software engineer and owner-director with 11 years of experience building resilient, scalable systems, most recently leading production engineering efforts at Shopify and now running Studio360 Dubai. He specializes in database scaling, capacity control, multi-tenancy, and MySQL tooling, and drove Shopify’s adoption of Vitess as a long-term scaling strategy while contributing directly to the Vitess codebase. Hormoz has deep operational experience—designing load-shedding, capacity isolation, and partitioning tooling—and a track record of fixing hard production issues across Rails and background job systems. He is an active open-source contributor whose commits improved test durability, scheduler stability, and multi-database migration behavior in widely used projects. Comfortable advising principal engineers and leading cross-organizational projects, he blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership to push platform boundaries. Trained as a computer engineer at the University of Waterloo, he brings both academic rigor and production-hardened pragmatism to complex infrastructure problems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (31)
database-migrations10
ruby-rails10
admin10
resque10
background-process10
mysql10
testing10
background-processing10
databases10
rails10
database-administration10
queuing10
scheduler10
ruby10
go10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
resque/resque-scheduler
Mar 2016 - Dec 2016
A light-weight job scheduling system built on top of Resque
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 20 PRs, 9 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Hormoz primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements within the Resque-Scheduler project. Their work included addressing failing tests, ensuring the logger was accessible, correcting an uninitialized variable, and refactoring schedule storage. Additionally, they implemented a failure hook and made code changes to handle graceful shutdown of scheduler threads. These commits improved the stability and functionality of the job scheduling system.
light-weightschedulingresquelightmongoid
vitessio/vitess
Mar 2021 - Oct 2021
Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 reviews, 11 commits, 6 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Hormoz contributed to the `vttestserver` component, focusing on its persistence and integration within the Vitess database clustering system. They implemented features to ensure the persistence of the `vttestserver` container and its data. The commits also included improvements to the test setup and teardown processes, along with additions to the end-to-end tests. Furthermore, the user made changes to support certification revocation list files and fixed table name escaping in vschema DDL.
mysqltidbhorizontal-scalingsqlvitess
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