Sana Ullah
Senior Engineer at First Trust
Herndon, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSana Ullah is a Senior Engineer with 19 years of software and distributed systems experience and over 8 years specializing in SQL Server, currently administering low-latency, high-availability databases for mission-critical financial trading platforms. He blends deep knowledge of database internals and modern microservice architecture to modernize legacy ColdFusion/ColdBox systems into scalable, service-oriented solutions while enforcing security and compliance. Known for substantial performance wins—refactoring queries and tuning execution plans to cut runtime by as much as 60%—he also designs multi-threaded microservices to improve concurrency and predictability. Sana contributes to open-source ColdFusion tooling, improving core framework components like bean factories and query helpers, which reflects his long-standing back-end craftsmanship. Based in Herndon, VA, he pairs an MBA in Computer & Information Sciences with pragmatic engineering that favors maintainability and measurable operational improvements.
19 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services at University of the Punjab
Github Skills (5)
cfml10
coldfusion10
dependency-injection6
oop5
orm4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ColdBox/coldbox-platform
Mar 2007 - Aug 2022
A modern, fluent and conventions based HMVC framework for ColdFusion (CFML)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 235 commits, 29 PRs in 15 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Sana appears to be a back-end developer, primarily contributing to the ColdFusion (CFML) framework. The commits involve fixing and adding features to the core plugin and helper files. Specifically, they are focused on improving the bean factory, query helper and cookie storage components of the framework.
hmvccfmlframeworklogging-librarydependency-injection
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