Muhammad Ali
Service Delivery Manager at Cisco
Earth, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMuhammad Ali is a seasoned IT leader and Service Delivery Manager with over 20 years of enterprise networking and cloud delivery experience and nine years of hands-on DevOps engineering in open-source projects. Based in Texas, he combines strategic program leadership at Cisco—optimizing global, multi-vendor delivery models and driving automation and efficiency—with deep technical contributions to major OSS ecosystems like Kubernetes, Knative, Terraform, and Packer. His open-source work focuses on cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, GCP authentication, and test-infra improvements, including contributions that touch high-profile repos such as kubernetes/k8s.io and hashicorp/terraform. Comfortable bridging executive stakeholders and engineering teams, he has a track record of reducing costs, scaling delivery, and mentoring talent while still shipping tooling-level fixes and enhancements. An MS in Electrical Engineering and long tenure in data center/cloud roles give him rare credibility across architecture, operations, and developer-facing infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BE, Electrical Engineering, BE, Electrical Engineering at NED University of Engineering and TechnologyMS Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications, MS Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications at California State University-Long Beach
English, Urdu, Hindi, Arabic
Github Skills (46)
kubernetes10
github-ci10
google-cloud-platform10
docker10
kops10
cloud-manager10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
testing10
storage10
authentication10
cloud-infrastructure10
dockers10
terraform10
cicd10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
knative/community
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
Knative governance and community material.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:49 reviews, 15 commits, 20 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Muhammad primarily focused on infrastructure management and configuration within the Knative community repository. Their work involved adopting Kubernetes infrastructure for Google Suite management, including the creation and modification of configuration files, specifically related to group management tools. They also made updates to the schema validation and added options for squash merge commit features, indicating a focus on improving the repository's workflow and tooling. This included modifications to deployment automation, build processes, and the Git configuration.
knativeknative-authorsgovernancemechanicsguidelines
GoogleCloudPlatform/magic-modules
Apr 2020 - Apr 2022
Add Google Cloud Platform support to Terraform
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:230 reviews, 178 commits, 180 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Muhammad primarily contributed to the implementation of features related to custom project and organization IAM roles, adding the `name` field and incorporating computed values within the schema. They also worked on adding functionalities to Redis and Memcached instances, as well as promoting the release channel for GKE. Their work focused on modifying Terraform templates, resources, and tests to support Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services.
google-cloud-platformterraformgcpgooglecloudplatformgooglecloud
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