Payam Hekmat
Software Developer at Amazon
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolPayam Hekmat is a software developer with 14 years of hands-on experience building reliable backend systems, currently contributing at Amazon from Austin, Texas. He holds a B.Sc. and M.S. in Computer Science from UT Dallas and spent a decade at Quest Software honing enterprise Java applications and system integrations. Payam is an active open-source contributor to prominent infrastructure tooling—most notably contributing DNS record refactors and TLS/http logging enhancements to the widely used hashicorp/terraform-provider-azurerm. He brings practical experience across the full lifecycle from low-level testing and ops (early internships and IST support) to production cloud services, with a knack for refactoring legacy interfaces while preserving backward compatibility. Colleagues value him for balancing pragmatic engineering with careful migration strategies that minimize user impact.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Computer Science, B.Sc., Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas
Github Skills (11)
terraformer10
azure10
go10
microsoft-azure10
terraform10
testing9
dns9
app-service9
api8
cloud-infrastructure8
apidoc8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/terraform-provider-azurerm
Mar 2018 - Apr 2021
Terraform provider for Azure Resource Manager
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 15 commits, 15 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Payam primarily contributed to the `azurerm_dns_ns_record` resource, refactoring the handling of DNS NS records. They replaced the existing `record` attribute with a `records` array, deprecating the former. This involved updating the code and tests to support both versions temporarily, including adding migration tests and documentation updates. Additional contributions include supporting new features like minimum TLS versions and HTTP logging configurations for app service resources and slots, which also included adding tests and fixing bugs.
providerresource-managerazure-resource-managerterraformterraform-provider
phekmat/terraform-provider-azurerm
Feb 2018 - Apr 2021
Terraform Azure Resource Manager provider
Contributions:52 pushes, 19 branches in 3 years 2 months
providerresource-managerazure-resource-managerazureterraform-provider
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