Ahmad Haghighi is a DevOps/SRE technical lead with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and operating production infrastructure across startups and large teams, currently leading SRE efforts at Alibaba Travels. He combines deep systems and security expertise—backed by a master’s in secure communications—with practical software engineering skills in Python and C developed across SIEM, UTM, and full‑stack roles. Ahmad has led DevOps transformations, improving delivery speed, reliability, and developer experience while planning and executing infrastructure modernization and automation projects. A long-time Free Software advocate and active Fedora contributor/ambassador, he brings open-source values to tooling and localization efforts. Based in Tehran, he blends research-minded problem solving (security research on MANETs) with pragmatic leadership and mentoring of engineering teams. Colleagues describe him as a technical mentor who turns complex operational bottlenecks into resilient, testable systems.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Secure Communications, 18.78/20, Master’s Degree, Secure Communications, 18.78/20 at Yazd University
Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology, 17.92/20, Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology, 17.92/20 at University of Birjand
Contributions:4 PRs, 126 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 7 months
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Ahmad Haghighi - DevOps SRE Technical Lead at Alibaba Travels Co.