Salman is available for hire

Salman Haq

Verified Expert in Engineering

Software Developer

Location

Herndon, VA, United States

Toptal Member Since

August 8, 2016

Salman has developed software for 12 years and enjoyed every minute of it. His favorite languages are Python and Golang and counts open source contributions to CPython among his accomplishments. He has worked on systems with requirements ranging from hard real-time to high-throughput to big data. Soft-skills and the ability to make sound trade-offs along with a get-it-done attitude is what make him a great contributor on any team.

Python Go Redis C PostgreSQL Linux Git Celery Google App Engine Heroku Flask Django Python 3 Java Redshift

Portfolio

Revemetrix

SQL, Hadoop, Redshift, Scala, Java, Python

Neustar

OWL, RDF, Semantic Web, NumPy, Flask, Python

ASTI

WebSockets, HTML5, WebRTC, Linux, C, JavaScript, Python

Experience

Linux - 12 years Python - 12 years PostgreSQL - 12 years IPython - 7 years Flask - 5 years Django - 5 years Python 3 - 3 years Redshift - 2 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Java, Python, Ubuntu, OS X

The most amazing...

...project I developed is a hard real-time device driver for audio processing by reverse engineering a commercial hardware solution.

Work Experience

Principal Architect

2014 - PRESENT

Revemetrix

Designed and implemented Redshift data warehouse.
Designed and implemented low-latency cookie sync.
Implemented numerous queries using advanced SQL, e.g.: Window functions.
Contributed to a big data processing pipeline (Hadoop, Kafka).
Contributed to the front-end dashboard (Python, Angular).

Technologies: SQL, Hadoop, Redshift, Scala, Java, Python

Research Architect

2011 - 2014

Neustar

Tech lead of a web-based application to manage enterprise metadata.
Performed original research on SemWeb topics and presented at international conferences.
Analyzed small data sets in Numpy to find correlations in source data.
Managed multiple stakeholders with the organization.

Technologies: OWL, RDF, Semantic Web, NumPy, Flask, Python

Software Engineer

2004 - 2011

ASTI

Developed real-time device drivers for audio processing application.
Redesigned admin dashboard using latest web technologies.
Conceived a new product and brought it to market.

Technologies: WebSockets, HTML5, WebRTC, Linux, C, JavaScript, Python

Experience

Information Reputation (Research Paper)

http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1030/paper-01.pdf

Position paper I co-authored and presented at a leading international conference.

Voisus (Software Product)

http://asti-usa.com/voisus/index.html

Voisus is a product that I conceived based on a latent market need and completely owned and managed it's development and launch. It is a significant revenue generator for the company.

Skills

Languages

Go, Python, Java, C, Python 3, SQL, RDF, OWL, JavaScript, HTML5, Scala

Tools

IPython, Git, Celery

Storage

Redis, Redshift, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, CouchDB

Frameworks

Flask, Django, Hadoop, AngularJS

Platforms

Google App Engine, Heroku, Linux, OS X, Ubuntu

Other

Architecture, Semantic Web, WebSockets

Libraries/APIs

WebRTC, React, NumPy

Education

2005 - 2005

PhD in Computer Engineering

University of Maryland - College Park, MD (USA)

1999 - 2003

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering

University of Maryland - College Park, MD (USA)

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