Summary
Hasanat Kazmi is a staff software engineer with a decade of experience delivering developer-focused tools and scalable infrastructure. Based in Palo Alto, he currently builds at Crusoe, where he focuses on distributed systems and cloud-native engineering while shaping CI and deployment automation. Previously at LinkedIn, he enhanced Developer Experience, built and migrated core CI tooling, and authored widely-used internal tools that span the engineering org, with deep expertise in containers and Kubernetes. He has entrepreneurial experience as a co-founder of Containify and Gupster, and has pursued research roles at SRI and LUMS, applying rigorous research to practical software infrastructure. He also actively invests in seed and pre-seed startups and targets enterprise SaaS opportunities with meaningful early traction (MRR > $10K). His career blends hands-on engineering leadership with a broad view of product development, DevEx, and scalable infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Lahore University of Management Sciences
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Arizona State University
Uppsala University