Principal Software Engineer
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Apr 2024 - Present
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Hamid Akhtar is listed as Principal Software Engineer at pgEdge, based in Pakistan. AeroLeads shows a matched LinkedIn profile for Hamid Akhtar.
Hamid Akhtar previously worked as Co-Founder at Optera Digital and Senior Software Engineer (Engineering Tech Lead) at Percona. Hamid Akhtar holds B.Sc., Computer Systems Engineering from Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute Of Engineering Sciences And Technology.
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About Hamid Akhtar
I have more than two decades of professional experience that includes high quality application development, design robust application architectures, devops, and team management.I know a bit about software development, software estimation strategies, requirement elicitation, process definitions and software development. C/C++ and PostgreSQL is something I'm really passionate about.
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Co-Founder
Senior Software Engineer (Engineering Tech Lead)
Hacking on PostgreSQL code and developing other tools including pg_stat_monitor.
Jan 2022 - Apr 2024
Technical Product Manager - Postgresql
Apr 2021 - Jul 2023
Postgresql Architect And Contributor
Jun 2019 - Apr 2021
Director Configuration Management
Mar 2011 - May 2019
Chief Technology Officer
Infinal Technologies (Private) Limited
Being your own boss is not as pleasant as I initially thought. Its like working 24x7. But it does feel good.Leading the company technically allowed me to do what I always wanted to do; i.e. focus on software quality and thereby rapid delivery of projects.Worked on projects for a couple of Saudi Arabian companies including Saudi Aramco. In a matter of a few years, we successfully developed and deployed a number of products:1) MAGExSMotors and Generators Expert System.It detects electrical and mechanical problems with motors and generators and suggest tests and repairs. The expert system has huge core of over 50,000 lines of code containing parameteric equations and data elements. Pretty good.2) ERPA web-based ERP solution built in ASP.Net and MS SQL Server 2005. A very strong architecture and loads of modules including:a) Finance with AP/AR/GL/FAb) Inventoryc) Salesd) Procuremente) Productionf) Shippingg) HR and Payrollh) Executive SummaryThe ERP uses our reporting engine to generate reports in PDF format.3) PDF Reporting EngineBuilt on iText. Use XML to generate reports.
Oct 2007 - Mar 2011
Associate Architect, Database Core
Worked as an associate architect in the database core team. Had a short stay there fore starting my own software company.
May 2007 - Oct 2007
Architect
Had a great time at LMKR. Worked on the PetroBank MDS project for Halliburton. Working on the seismic side was a new experience. I personally worked on:1) Poststack Data2) Prestack Data3) Field Data4) Navigation Data5) Velocity DataHad loads of fun fixing up major problems and issues in the system include a porting project for shifting the entire C/C++ and shell script code base from AIX to Linux. Enjoyed every bit of.I also got a change to work on Uniface 7 and 8. A pretty good framework for rapid application development.
Aug 2004 - May 2007
Jan 2004 - Aug 2004
Software Engineer
Fully developed an IVR application, as well as worked on tariff, billing and CDR processing applications.
Mar 2003 - Jan 2004
System Analyst
Jun 2001 - Dec 2002
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Hamid Akhtar education
B.Sc., Computer Systems Engineering
Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute Of Engineering Sciences And Technology
International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program
Ibmyp
Vienna International School, Austria
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Hamid Akhtar works for pgEdge.
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Hamid Akhtar is listed as Principal Software Engineer at pgEdge.
Where is Hamid Akhtar based?
Hamid Akhtar is based in Pakistan while working with pgEdge.
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Hamid Akhtar has worked for Pgedge, Optera Digital, Percona, Highgo Soft, and Enterprisedb.
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Hamid Akhtar holds B.Sc., Computer Systems Engineering from Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute Of Engineering Sciences And Technology.
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