Vahid Hashemian
Senior Software Engineer at Pinterest
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVahid Hashemian is a Senior Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 12 years of experience building web content management systems, cloud tooling, and back-end services. He blends deep object-oriented design and database modeling with hands-on web technologies (HTML/XML, XSLT, CSS, JavaScript) and strong technical writing skills. At IBM he led teams building cloud capacity planning and OpenStack-related tooling, and he now applies that systems-level experience at Pinterest. An active open-source maintainer, Vahid is an Apache Kafka committer and PMC member who has improved Kafka’s Java client docs and command-line tooling to aid operator usability. His background includes academic research and a PhD in Computer Science, giving him a rigorous approach to component-based design and automated composition. Colleagues rely on him for analytical problem solving, clear documentation, and pragmatic leadership on complex distributed systems.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at University of WaterlooB.Sc., Software Engineering, B.Sc., Software Engineering at Sharif University of Technology
English, Persian
Github Skills (5)
command-line-tool10
kafka10
documentation10
java9
javas9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
apache/kafka
Dec 2015 - Jun 2019
Mirror of Apache Kafka
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Technical Writer
Back-end Developer & Technical WriterContributions:5 reviews, 140 commits, 270 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Vahid primarily contributed to the Kafka documentation, improving its accuracy and readability. They fixed typos, corrected content, added hyperlinks, and improved the formatting of code snippets, particularly within the context of the Java client. Their contributions also extended to fixing broken links and clarifying the usage of various command-line tools and configurations. Additionally, the user made several changes to the `ConsumerGroupCommand`, enhancing the display of group information and adjusting the default group id behavior.
apache-kafkakafka-consumerapachescalakafka
vahidhashemian/orion
Nov 2020 - Mar 2025
Management and automation platform for Stateful Distributed Systems
Contributions:1 push, 6 branches in 4 years 4 months
distributed-systemsautomationstatefulsaga-patterndistributed
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