I'm a computer engineering graduate student specializing in cloud-native and serverless systems, with research and industry experience in scalable infrastructure, observability, and sustainability-aware computing. My work spans research and industry projects across distributed systems, telemetry-driven observability, and carbon-conscious cloud computing, with a focus on secure, privacy-aware data collection and efficient energy attribution for modern cloud services.

Hanan Awwad

I'm a computer engineering graduate student specializing in cloud-native and serverless systems, with research and industry experience in scalable infrastructure, observability, and sustainability-aware computing. My work spans research and industry projects across distributed systems, telemetry-driven observability, and carbon-conscious cloud computing, with a focus on secure, privacy-aware data collection and efficient energy attribution for modern cloud services.

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I’m a computer engineering graduate student specializing in cloud-native and serverless systems, with research and industry experience in scalable infrastructure, observability, and sustainability-aware computing.

My work spans research and industry projects across distributed systems, telemetry-driven observability, and carbon-conscious cloud computing, with a focus on secure, privacy-aware data collection and efficient energy attribution for modern cloud services.

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Experience Level

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Intermediate

Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

Graduate Research Assistant at University of British Columbia
January 1, 2024 - Present
Develop secure, privacy-aware observability systems for cloud and serverless platforms by diagnosing and resolving production issues in distributed services using metrics, traces, and logs. Built telemetry-driven models to estimate per-invocation carbon emissions for AWS Lambda, and analyzed how configuration and runtime factors impact serverless emissions.
Software Engineer at IQVIA
July 1, 2017 - December 1, 2023
Designed and implemented scalable backend services using Java and distributed systems technologies (Elasticsearch, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes); migrated Java-based monoliths to microservices; built CI/CD pipelines, automated tests, and participated in code reviews to improve reliability and maintainability.

Education

Master of Applied Science (MASc) at University of British Columbia
January 1, 2024 - September 1, 2026

Qualifications

Oracle Certified Professional, Java SE Programmer
January 11, 2030 - January 19, 2026
Climate Solution Scholar, Climate Solutions Research Collective – UBC
September 1, 2025 - January 19, 2026

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Healthcare, Professional Services