Hussain Abbas
Director Of Developer Experience Services at Axelerant
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolHussain Abbas is a seasoned engineering leader with over 13 years of hands-on experience and 18+ years in software broadly, currently directing Developer Experience Services at Axelerant from Toronto. He builds engineering enablement and developer productivity platforms, having managed 50+ Drupal developers and created tooling to reduce boilerplate and accelerate delivery. A pragmatic back-end and DevOps engineer, he contributes to notable open-source projects such as Lando (adding Solr and Redis support) and Guzzle (HHVM compatibility fixes), showing a knack for maintaining cross-platform tooling. Hussain blends deep platform-level troubleshooting from his early CLR and multi-threading work with a modern focus on developer workflows and continuous learning. Colleagues rely on him to translate operational complexity into smoother, developer-centered experiences that speed time-to-value.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering Computer Science at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityPUC Computer Science, PUC Computer Science at Sudarshan Vidya Mandir
English, Hindi, Gujarati, Kannada, Spanish
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Github Skills (24)
docker10
develop10
redis10
back-end-development10
mariadb10
solr10
hhvm10
dockers10
http-client10
php10
curl10
devops10
unit-testing9
automations8
automation8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
lando/lando
May 2018 - Nov 2020
A development tool for all your projects that is fast, easy, powerful and liberating
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:10 commits, 7 PRs, 29 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Hussain focused on adding support for various versions of Solr and Redis within the Lando environment, which is a development tool built using Docker. They updated configuration files and scripts to accommodate these new versions and made Solr 7.5 the default. Additionally, the user updated the project by merging branches and fixing issues related to image tags, specifically for MariaDB. This indicates contributions towards maintaining and expanding the supported technologies within the Lando platform.
dotnetpythonwordpressphpjavascript
guzzle/guzzle
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Guzzle, an extensible PHP HTTP client
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 10 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Hussain focused on improving the compatibility of the Guzzle HTTP client with HHVM (HipHop Virtual Machine). Their contributions primarily involved adding checks for the availability of certain constants and functions not supported by HHVM. They fixed failing tests related to HHVM and made code adjustments to accommodate the platform's differences. The user also made minor code simplifications and removed the use of a deprecated function, enhancing code maintainability.
http-headerguzzlehttp-clientphpcurl
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