John Ayad
Software Engineering Group Lead at Palantir Technologies
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJohn Ayad is a Software Engineering Group Lead at Palantir with 13 years of experience building reliable, production-grade systems and leading technical teams from London. A First Class Computer Science graduate from the University of Sheffield, he has progressed through roles at Palantir from Product Reliability Engineer to Group Lead, combining hands-on engineering with people leadership. He contributes to notable open-source tooling such as the high-performance mamba package manager, where he improved cache validation, error logging, and ZST compression support—demonstrating deep backend and DevOps instincts. His background includes teaching and mentoring university students and running squad-level test automation initiatives at Hudl, showing a consistent focus on developer productivity and quality. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who turns complex distributed and build problems into repeatable, testable solutions.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 1st, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 1st at The University of SheffieldHigh School, High School at Nefertari British International School
Arabic, English, French
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Github Skills (9)
conda10
package-manager10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
build-automation8
testing7
script7
shell7
python5
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
mamba-org/mamba
Jul 2021 - Jun 2022
The Fast Cross-Platform Package Manager
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 5 commits, 13 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:John contributed to the development and maintenance of the `mamba` package manager, focusing on improving its reliability and robustness. Their work included logging detailed error messages for validation failures, addressing issues related to package cache validation, and adding support for the ZST compression format. Furthermore, the user addressed build-related matters, as exemplified by the integration of test automation and the avoidance of temporary files during the download process.
cppwindowscondapackage-managerlinux
conda-forge/mapbox-feedstock
Aug 2022 - Jan 2025
A conda-smithy repository for mapbox.
Contributions:2 reviews, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 6 months
mapcondasmithymapbox
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