Summary
Sako M is a platform-focused software engineer with 10+ years of global experience across startups and large enterprises, currently building platform engineering at a stealth San Francisco startup. He blends deep security, DevOps, and AI interests with hands-on work in Kubernetes, CI/CD, cloud cost and reliability optimization, and compliance (PCI DSS, SOC2, FedRAMP). His career spans platform and security leadership roles at Gladly, OpenGov, and NGINX, plus industrial cyber-security research at Fraunhofer and SAP, reflecting a rare mix of production ops and threat-research experience. He holds three MSc degrees from different countries and brings an entrepreneurial mindset—treating engineering as value creation rather than just feature delivery. Outside work he pairs disciplined fitness habits with a philosophy of giving more than he takes, which informs his collaborative, service-oriented approach to building resilient systems.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at ASOA
France: MSc Computer Security and Communications, France: MSc Computer Security and Communications at Télécom Paris
MSc Computer Security and Communications, MSc Computer Security and Communications at EURECOM
US: MSc Software Engineering, US: MSc Software Engineering at International Technological University (ITU)
MBA IT Management, MBA IT Management at Qafqaz Universiteti
English, Azerbaijani, Turkish, German, French, Russian