Akbar Ahmed
Founder at Stealth
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkbar Ahmed is a seasoned founder and engineering executive with over 15 years building and running globally distributed services and teams, currently founding a stealth startup in Palo Alto. He combines deep operational discipline—14 years of P&L ownership and multiple ISO certifications—with hands-on engineering, having built project management and workflow automation platforms and contributed to open-source infrastructure like Netflix’s Dynomite. At Tenable he led a turnaround of data and integrations organizations, delivering a 16x velocity improvement, 6x throughput gain, and $1.2M in cost savings, demonstrating measurable impact across delivery and cost. Comfortable at the intersection of business and technology, he has co-founded multiple companies in services and online education and scaled teams across the US and India. Notably, his DevOps-first mindset predates the term, having implemented production automation and monitoring early in his career.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Business Economics with Accounting emphasis, BA, Business Economics with Accounting emphasis at UC Santa BarbaraMBA, Information Systems, MBA, Information Systems at Loyola Marymount University
Github Skills (10)
c1710
bash10
c1110
testing9
automake9
redis9
docker8
documentation8
dockers8
makefile8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Netflix/dynomite
Dec 2015 - Nov 2016
A generic dynamo implementation for different k-v storage engines
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:54 commits, 20 PRs, 54 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Akbar primarily focused on improving the project's build, test, and deployment infrastructure. Contributions include modifying the `travis.sh` script to install necessary Python libraries and setting up the environment. Additional changes involved updating the `travis.sh` file to launch and manage Redis and Dynomite nodes for testing. The user also standardized binary names and incorporated doxygen comments to improve code documentation.
golangdynomitenosqlredisgeneric
DynomiteDB/dynomite-manager
Aug 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:106 pushes, 25 branches, 3 issues in 3 months
clusterssidecarkubernetesdynomite
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