Hilal Morrar
Software Engineer
I'm a software engineer focused on building reliable systems, developer tooling, and scalable infrastructure.
Work Experience
My professional journey in software development
Software Engineer Intern
Cisco Systems - Duo Security
San Francisco, CA
May 2024 - August 2024
- Engineered a new feature to an internal performance load testing tool using Python, AWS EC2, and MySQL to dynamically create simulated customers and production HTTP requests.
- Created reports for software release tests executed with GitHub CI/CD pipelines to monitor performance metrics for 50,000+ concurrent users with Datadog, Grafana, and Kibana dashboards.
- Resolved faulty pod monitoring in Kubernetes deployments using Python to eliminate silent job failures or stalled pods and saved 10% on AWS resources.
Software Engineer Intern
Stealth Startup
Remote
May 2023 - August 2023
- Designed a RESTful API and implemented DELETE request functionality for a distributed, fault-tolerant, and consistent key-value store using Go and Docker.
- Developed internal API routes to support dynamic server coordination, data rebalancing, and Bash scripts to automate setup/teardown processes to improve development efficiency by 30%.
- Utilized Goroutines for concurrency when handling client and internal HTTP requests for system communication.
Machine Learning Engineer
Applied Machine Learning Lab
Santa Cruz, CA
September 2020 - August 2021
- Led the design and training efforts of various CNN model architectures for time-series data with PyTorch.
- Achieved 95% accuracy by tuning machine learning models with hyperparameter optimization.
- Distributed model training with PyTorch DDP in a Kubernetes GPU cloud for a 50% reduction in training time.
Frontend Software Engineer
Resilient Renewable Efficient Energy Systems
Santa Cruz, CA
July 2020 - September 2020
- Built a registration UI using React, JavaScript, and AWS S3 for an IoT device with hardware and product teams.
- Coordinated end to end integration with backend services on AWS EC2 to ensure smooth device onboarding.
- Optimized data handling and client-side input validation to raise user experience and accessibility scores by 17% based on Google Lighthouse audits.
Education
My academic background and certifications
Masters of Science in Computer Science
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
August 2023 - May 2025
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA
September 2018 - June 2022
Technical Skills
Technologies and tools I work with
Languages
Assembly
C
C++
Go
HTML/CSS
Java
Javascript
Python
Frameworks/Libraries
Agile
Gin
Keras
NumPy
PyTorch
React
TensorFlow
pandas
scikit-learn
Developer Tools
Atlassian
Docker
Git
Jira
Kubernetes
Linux/Unix
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Slack
Terraform
