Baber Rehman
Compiler Engineer at The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong, China
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Top SchoolBaber Rehman is a compiler engineer and PhD researcher in computer science at The University of Hong Kong with nine years of industry and academic experience spanning compiler internals, programming languages, type systems, and cloud/platform engineering. He currently researches LLVM for security and optimization tradeoffs at Huawei HKRC while pursuing doctoral work under Dr. Bruno Oliveira focused on type systems, functional and object-oriented programming, and logic. Prior roles include senior software and DevOps engineering at CloudPlex and Platalytics where he built cloud automation, monitoring, and security templates using Go, Scala, and tooling like Chef, Ansible, Docker and AWS/Azure. He has teaching experience in computer organization and enterprise development, and a track record of bridging research-grade language theory with practical systems and security concerns. Notably, he combines deep PL research with hands-on cloud and DevOps expertise—making him fluent in both low-level compiler tradeoffs and large-scale deployment realities.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of the PunjabThe University of Hong Kong (HKU)
English, Urdu, Punjabi, hindko
Github Skills (8)
aws-sdk10
aws-sdk-go-v29
aws9
go8
terraform-provider8
terraform8
compiler3
eclipse-plugin2
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
baberrehman/baberrehman.github.io
Feb 2020 - Jul 2025
Contributions:121 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
baberrehman/disjoint-union
Apr 2020 - Jul 2021
Contributions:178 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 3 months
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