Summary
Saalik Hatia is a Site Reliability Engineer based in Paris with 11 years of experience and a PhD in Distributed Systems focused on formally specified, correct database backends. He transitioned academic research—designing consistency semantics, building multiple database PoCs, and contributing to AntidoteDB and EU/ANR projects—into production-facing reliability work at Scaleway. Comfortable across the stack, he brings strong benchmarking and performance-evaluation skills plus hands-on experience with replication, CRDTs, and lock-free converging filesystems. He has also taught concurrent and systems programming and led cross-disciplinary collaborations with industry partners, underscoring his ability to translate formal models into practical, auditable systems. Notably, his background combines deep formal methods with pragmatic SRE practices, making him adept at preventing subtle consistency bugs in distributed services.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctorat, Computer Science, Doctorat, Computer Science at Sorbonne Université
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)
English, Hindi, French, gujarâtî