Ziad Hanna is a software engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience, currently building products at OceanDataLab from his base in Brest, Brittany. Trained as a computer engineer at ENIB, he blends full-stack development skills with a practical focus on developer tooling and build systems. His open-source contributions include extending the Koala GUI compiler to support the Dust templating engine, showing a knack for integrating niche libraries and resolving tricky merge and build issues. Colleagues would describe him as quietly persistent—someone who improves developer workflows and maintains code health rather than chasing the spotlight. He also carries a playful online handle, @zaygraveyard, hinting at a creative, independent streak beyond his professional work.
13 years of coding experience
Engineer's degree, Computer Science, Engineer's degree, Computer Science at ENIB
Koala is a GUI application for less, sass and coffeescript compilation, to help web developers to the development more efficient.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:12 releases, 134 commits, 7 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Ziad added support for the Dust templating engine to the Koala application, which compiles less, sass, and coffeescript code. They integrated the dustjs-linkedin library and resolved merge conflicts to incorporate the new functionality. The user also made various changes to the build and configuration of the application, including updating dependencies and fixing bugs. These changes demonstrate a focus on extending the capabilities of the application and maintaining its code.
A simple CLI that wraps/unwraps flow type annotations in comments
Contributions:5 PRs, 26 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 3 months
annotationswrapsflowtypetype-annotationsformatter
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