Syed Ahsan
Summary
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SeniorSyed Ahsan is a Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer based in the Los Angeles area with over a decade of hands-on experience architecting and operating cloud-native platforms using Kubernetes, Terraform, and major public clouds. He has driven cloud transformation and SRE practices at scale for customers and enterprises, most recently at Rivian/Volkswagen Group Technologies after a multi-year tenure as a senior cloud architect at SADA focused on Google Cloud migrations and service mesh. His background includes deep contributions to OpenStack and cloud research from his time at Intel and UTSA, blending systems-level engineering in Go and Python with production-grade infrastructure automation. Known for turning monoliths into resilient microservices and for pragmatic IaC design, he pairs production reliability with developer ergonomics. An unusual strength is his long arc from early OpenStack contributor to modern cloud platforms, giving him both historical perspective and practical expertise in evolving cloud ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (27)
clearlinux10
fleet7
google-cloud7
openstack7
automation6
specfile6
cloud-native5
ai5
terraform5
hpc5
machine-learning5
kubernetes5
google-cloud-platform4
testing4
terraform-provider4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ahsan518/cluster-toolkit
Jan 2025 - Feb 2025
Cluster Toolkit is an open-source software offered by Google Cloud which makes it easy for customers to deploy AI/ML and HPC environments on Google Cloud.
Contributions:38 pushes in 15 days
ahsan518/cloud-native-setup
Sep 2019 - Oct 2019
Automation around setting up the cloud-native content (kubernetes) on Clear Linux.
Contributions:17 pushes, 6 branches in 20 days
containersisolationclear-linuxsettingdevops
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