Abid Mehmood
Product Owner Project Manager at SUSE
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolAbid Mehmood is a product-focused engineering leader with 11 years of experience who transitioned from nearly a decade of hands-on software and backend development into product ownership and project management at SUSE. Based in Dubai, he blends deep technical chops in DevOps and backend systems—evidenced by contributions to large open-source projects like SaltStack and Uyuni—with a pragmatic ability to steer product delivery. His background includes designing integrations and enterprise features (machine ID, channel management) and improving minion functionality and compatibility in widely used infrastructure tooling. Abid is comfortable moving between code, CI/CD, and stakeholder-facing product decisions, making him effective at turning operational complexity into consumable features. He holds an MS in Media Informatics and has a track record of adding tests, docs, and configuration improvements that reduce technical debt and increase reliability. Colleagues describe him as a bridge-builder who pairs engineering rigor with clear product priorities.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Ms, Media Informatics, Ms, Media Informatics at Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule AachenBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at IIU, Islamabad
German, English, Urdu
Github Skills (17)
unit-testing10
back-end-development10
python10
configuration-management10
channel10
java10
javas10
management10
infrastructure-as-code10
postgresql9
event-handling9
event-manager9
sql8
infrastructure8
remote-execution7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
uyuni-project/uyuni
Sep 2017 - Dec 2022
Source code for Uyuni
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:67 reviews, 590 commits, 304 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Abid primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Uyuni project, focusing on modifications to Java code related to system and channel management. Their commits involved implementing features like displaying messages upon configuration channel deletion, feedback modifications, and the inclusion of "machine ID" information in system details. The user also added unit tests and made changes in SQL files to include new configuration channel and file types.
spring-bootpythonuyunisuse-managerlinux
saltstack/salt
Aug 2018 - Jan 2020
Software to automate the management and configuration of any infrastructure or application at scale. Install Salt from the Salt package repositories here:
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 10 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Abid primarily focused on enhancing the SaltStack minion functionality. Their contributions included decoding file contents for Python 2 compatibility, implementing and testing new features related to passing grains to start events, and adding tests for custom events. They also worked on updating documentation, configuration parameters, and modifying minion-related code.
pythonzeromqevent-streaminfrastructure-managementcloud-providers
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