Zaid Humayun
Senior Software Engineer at Conviva
Bengaluru, Karnataka, United States
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Top SchoolZaid Humayun is a Senior Software Engineer based in Bengaluru with 10 years of experience building backend systems and leading small engineering teams to translate customer requirements into production features. He has strong systems and database engineering chops, evidenced by substantive contributions to the limbo project—implementing DROP TABLE semantics, B-tree page destruction state machines, and robust IO-aware behaviors for a modern SQLite-like OLTP engine. Zaid is comfortable across stacks, having migrated teams to TypeScript, authored production Rust, and built customer-facing UIs earlier in his career. He pairs pragmatic product sensibilities with low-level technical rigor, often focusing on reliability and observability in distributed systems. Colleagues describe him as a hands-on problem solver who enjoys wrestling with compilers and turning ambiguous requirements into tested, shipping code.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University
English, Hindi, Turkish
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Github Skills (12)
databases10
rust10
database-administration10
sqlite10
embedded-database10
admin10
sql10
database10
data-structure9
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
tursodatabase/limbo
Sep 2024 - Mar 2025
Limbo is a project to build the modern evolution of SQLite.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 3 PRs, 12 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Zaid focused on implementing core database functionality within the `limbo` project, which aims to be a modern evolution of SQLite. The primary contribution was the implementation of the `DROP TABLE` command, which included modifications to the schema and B-tree structures. They added the necessary instructions for dropping table indices and have designed a system that uses state machines to handle the destruction of B-tree pages, ensuring that IO interruptions and overflow pages are handled correctly. They also implemented printf functionality.
databaseembedded-databasesqlsqlite3webassembly
redixhumayun/redixhumayun.github.io
Jan 2019 - Mar 2025
Personal Website
Contributions:4 PRs, 113 pushes, 4 branches in 6 years 3 months
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