Javad Rahnama is a Senior Software Developer based in Surrey, BC with 8 years of industrial experience building high-performance, cross-platform systems using C#, SQL, TypeScript and PowerShell. He modernized legacy codebases and maintained a widely used client-side SQL Server driver with 700M+ downloads, while also owning and optimizing Azure-based CI/CD test pipelines for reliable delivery. His open-source contributions focus on test automation for Microsoft.Data.SqlClient, improving coverage around encryption, connections and data type behaviors. Trained in computer hardware and software engineering and pursuing machine learning studies at MITx, he blends low-level systems thinking with practical application engineering. Colleagues know him for methodical algorithmic problem solving and an appetite for mastering emerging frameworks to push technical boundaries.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Machine Learning, Certificate, Machine Learning at MITx Courses
Microsoft.Data.SqlClient provides database connectivity to SQL Server for .NET applications.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:7 releases, 742 reviews, 65 commits in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Javad primarily contributed to the test suite, adding and modifying tests for the Microsoft.Data.SqlClient library. Their work involved creating tests for various aspects of the API, including always encrypted functionality, connection and database operations, and ensuring correct behavior with different data types. The user addressed issues in the test lab, improved code syntax, and fixed failures in the testing pipeline, demonstrating a focus on test coverage and reliability.
Contributions:1 review, 10 PRs, 768 pushes in 5 years 1 month
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Javad Rahnama - Senior Software Developer at NRI 3PL