Tareq Al-ahdal
Software Engineer at National University of Singapore
Singapore, Singapore
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Top SchoolTareq Al-ahdal is a software engineer based in Singapore with eight years of experience building backend systems and working with databases. He currently contributes to the Singapore Blockchain Innovation Programme at the National University of Singapore, blending academic-scale research with practical engineering. His open-source work on Nominatim (an OpenStreetMap geocoding project) demonstrates a focus on data migration, refactoring, and improving geocoding flexibility by externalizing country names into YAML and streamlining SQL logic. Previously he contributed to OpenStreetMap and spent time in fintech at MoneyMatch, indicating comfort across public infrastructure and product-focused environments. Tareq holds a Bachelor's (Hons) in Computer Science from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia and brings a pragmatic, data-oriented approach to system design. A less obvious strength is his attention to tooling and data import pipelines, which helps reduce friction for downstream users and tests.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree (Hons), Computer Science, Bachelor's degree (Hons), Computer Science at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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Github Skills (8)
postgresql10
sql10
yaml10
python9
geocoding9
openstreetmap9
json8
database-design8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
osm-search/Nominatim
Mar 2022 - Aug 2022
Open Source search based on OpenStreetMap data
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 36 commits, 5 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Tareq primarily worked on migrating and refactoring country name data within the Nominatim project. They modified the data import logic to load country names from a YAML configuration file. The user also refactored the code to prepend "name:" to the keys, made changes to the SQL functions, and updated test files. These changes focused on improving the data management and flexibility of the geocoding functionality.
openstreetmapnominatimgeocodingosmopenstreetmap-data
tareqpi/Nominatim
Mar 2022 - Sep 2022
Open Source search based on OpenStreetMap data
Contributions:88 pushes, 21 branches in 6 months
osmopenstreetmap-dataopenstreetmap
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