Qays Poonawala
Yoga Instructor at CorePower Yoga
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolQays Poonawala is a pragmatic software engineer with 13 years of experience building backend systems, data pipelines, and developer workflows across startups and large enterprises. He has led interdisciplinary teams to productionize ML-driven knowledge extraction systems and improved tooling at organizations like MAANA and IQVIA, often working in Scala, Python, and Java. Comfortable full‑stack, he pairs systems-level thinking (CI/CD, Linux sysadmin, distributed compute) with hands-on feature work and code reviews. Based in Seattle, he also teaches and leads yoga classes, bringing a practiced focus on clarity and resilience to team dynamics and problem solving. An early engineer at Amazon and a repeat contributor to projects spanning Spark, Consul, and Stanford NLP integrations, he’s equally likely to solder a device as he is to optimize a data flow. Colleagues rely on him to translate messy requirements into maintainable, production-ready solutions.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Arabic, English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
chat10
media-keys10
command-line-tool10
client-library10
service-discovery10
keybase10
apache10
package-manager10
administration10
virtualbox10
zookeeper10
ruby10
window-manager10
guava10
raft10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
happyhousing/happyhousing
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:46 commits, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
qayshp/homebrew-cask
Feb 2018 - Jun 2020
🍻 A CLI workflow for the administration of macOS applications distributed as binaries
Contributions:11 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 4 months
cliworkflowdistributed-applicationsadministrationbinaries
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