Walid Hanafy
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolWalid Hanafy is a distributed systems researcher and engineer with a decade of experience building resource- and energy-efficient computing and AI systems, currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at UMass Amherst focusing on reducing the carbon footprint of computing and designing resilient AI for constrained environments. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from UMass Amherst and has blended academic research with industry practice through roles at Nokia Bell Labs and multiple engineering positions where he shipped cloud, edge, and GIS systems. Walid’s work spans deploying ML inference on edge devices, distributed training, and practical lab and teaching experience—he even taught an OS design course and ran a cloud computing lab—showing a strong ability to translate theory into operational systems. Notable for combining deep systems thinking with hands-on product delivery, he has led R&D on a “codeless” GUI testing framework and contributed to renewable-energy ML research, reflecting a rare mix of sustainability, tooling, and production experience.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Computer Software Engineering, B+, Diploma, Computer Software Engineering, B+ at Information Technology Institute (ITI)Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, GPA: 4, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, GPA: 4 at University of Massachusetts AmherstMaster's degree, Computer Engineering, Excellent, Master's degree, Computer Engineering, Excellent at Helwan University Cairo
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Github Skills (70)
checkpoint10
migration10
artifacts9
linux9
blcr9
system-information9
suspend9
criu9
container9
microsoft-azure8
docker8
azure-service-fabric8
keras8
golang7
azure-pipelines7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
washraf/ORM-ITI
Apr 2019 - Jan 2024
Code Samples for ORM Course for ITI Students (SA Track)
Contributions:3 PRs, 10 pushes in 4 years 9 months
javaitiormmysql
washraf/PVClassification
Nov 2019 - Jun 2025
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 comment in 5 years 7 months
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