Adel Zaalouk
Germany
Summary
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RockstarAdel Zaalouk is a Senior Principal Product Manager leading Red Hat AI with 11 years of experience at the intersection of research, cloud-native platforms, and product strategy. He blends a researcher’s curiosity with product rigor to operationalize AI as a horizontal technology across hybrid infrastructures and responsible-AI practices. His career spans roles from research scientist and systems architect to product leadership at Red Hat and community technical leadership at CNCF, giving him deep perspective on open-source ecosystems and developer needs. Based in Heidelberg, he couples an Executive MBA mindset with a Master’s in Software Systems Engineering to translate complex technical trade-offs into business outcomes. An active communicator and newsletter author (The Technomist) with a GitHub persona “zanetworker,” he brings a pragmatic Samurai-like discipline to shipping reliable, ethical AI products. Notably, he has moved from hands-on research roles into influencing industry standards for cloud-native AI while maintaining strong engineering credibility.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (134)
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golang10
kubernetes10
go10
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
networkmachinery/networkmachinery-operators
May 2019 - Feb 2020
[PoC] Repo that holds in-tree networkmachinery operators (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsJoRkmzoa0)
Contributions:46 commits, 1 PR, 16 pushes in 9 months
kubernetesnetworkingpocyoutube
zanetworker/zanetworker.github.io
Dec 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:164 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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