Haadi Razzak

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Haadi Razzak

Haadi Razzak

@haadirazzak

swe @awsAWSAmazon Web Services@aws | @uscUSCUniversity of Southern California@usc alum

Building distributed systems at scale ☁️ | Previously tinkering with ML & full-stack

Seattle // SF
Joined Earth April 2003
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Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services@aws·Aug 2025 – Present
Software Development Engineer · Seattle, WA
  • Contributed within the Data Center Automation organization to build internal tooling for data center health monitoring, supporting operations across nearly 1,000 data centers worldwide
  • Created an internal, team-specific package using AWS CDK (Python and TypeScript) to standardize CloudWatch alarm creation as part of an Operational Excellence initiative, defining a consistent alarm taxonomy by service ownership and severity levels
  • Expanded the team's service ownership from commercial AWS to Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC), re-architecting systems and performing extensive validation to prevent alarm data leakage between private ADC data centers and commercial environments; partnered with Controls and ADC teams, led User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and enabled adoption by 100+ ADC engineers
BMC Software
BMC Software@bmc·May 2024 – Aug 2024
Machine Learning Engineer Intern · Santa Clara, CA
  • Analyzed previous server configurations using time series modeling, achieving a 19% improvement in fleet health and a 15% reduction in server downtime through fine-tuning the Llama 2 model
  • Leveraged Generative AI with tools like Kustomize to enhance Kubernetes deployments, drawing on historical user data and metrics such as server response time, CPU usage, and container health status
PayPal
PayPal@paypal·May 2023 – Aug 2023
Software Integration Engineering Intern · San Jose, CA
  • Created a system using NodeJS and Braintree to smoothen the external app payment integration process for high volume merchants, enabling a smoother payment process for 100+ million users
  • Collaborated with 20+ merchants to enhance checkout page customization, optimizing payment interfaces by integrating fraud protection, alternative payment methods, and webhook automation
PayPal
PayPal@paypal·May 2022 – Aug 2022
Software Integration Engineering Intern · San Jose, CA
  • did the same stuff the summer before lol
Innowi
Innowi@innowi·Summer 2021
Software Engineering Intern · San Jose, CA
  • senior year of high school internship — built Point of Sale devices and deployed to restaurants. also wrote a lil Java.