Hawyar Farooq

I am a Software Engineer from Erbil, Kurdistan. I have a Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering with a minor in Mathematics from Manchester University in Indiana. I lived in the U.S. for 8 years, spending 4 of those working after graduating. I moved back to Kurdistan where I currently work as an IT Manager at an education company that builds and manages schools and universities. My work involves managing on-premise network infrastructure across more than a dozen institutions.

Experience

• Vision Education · IT Manager
  Aug 2024 - Present
• Casimir · Senior Software Engineer
  Jul 2023 - Apr 2024
• Consensus Networks · Software Integration Engineer
  Apr 2021 - Jun 2023
• Manchester University · IT Administrator Assistant
  Jul 2020 - Mar 2021
• New York Minute Magazine · Software Engineer, Intern
  Dec 2019 - May 2020

Projects

• CQL (Clinical Query Language)
• Crimson (FHIR R4 server)
• microsql (Small ANSI SQL parser)
• NB Scholarships (Scholarship Management Platform)
• Casimir (Decentralized staking and asset management)
• Banzab website
• Daroak website
• Vision Education website

What I am currenlty working on

I am working on FDB Document Layer which is a document data store (NoSQL) built on FoundationDB. While fdb manages the complexities of a distributed system the document layer manages sharding, indexing, chunking, and query planning. It's similar to Apple's Record Layer.

What's up with the website?

I am sick and tired of purple gradients, unnecessary bloat, and endless JavaScript frameworks. Why do I have to go through a dozen pages to get some basic information. This website is a single index.html file and I am happy with it.

Things I find interesting:

• Consensus algorithms in distributed systems
• The 2008 housing market crisis
• The Bauhaus school and its manifesto
• Essays by Christopher Hitchens