Ali Kahoot
Infrastructure Team Lead at National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
Pakistan
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Top SchoolAli Kahoot is an Infrastructure Team Lead with 10 years of experience building secure, highly-available cloud-native platforms and leading SRE teams from Pakistan. At pawaPay he mentors senior SREs to maintain 99.97% uptime for a payments platform processing nearly 3 million daily transactions, reduced infrastructure technical debt by 80%, and integrated with 15 telecom providers. He has deep hands-on expertise in GitOps, Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS, CI/CD and observability, and has contributed to open-source Kubernetes tooling such as the popular IngressMonitorController. A seasoned trainer and visiting lecturer, he bridges industry and academia, creating on-demand PR environments and unified Helm charts to improve developer velocity. Known for quick ramp-ups and single-handedly operating complex infra during critical handovers, he blends operational rigor with pragmatic automation.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
English, Urdu, Arabic
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Github Skills (21)
kubernetes10
controller10
annotations10
testing10
ingress10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
annotate10
virtual-machine9
docker9
helm8
closures6
android-emulator6
asp-net6
android6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
stakater/IngressMonitorController
Jun 2018 - Jul 2021
A Kubernetes controller to watch ingresses and create liveness alerts for your apps/microservices in UptimeRobot, StatusCake, Pingdom, etc. – [✩Star] if you're using it!
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 92 commits, 52 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Ali primarily contributed to improving the functionality and testing of the ingress monitor controller. They fixed an issue related to ingress path checking and improved tests, specifically focusing on the correct handling of paths and URLs. Further contributions included enhancements related to annotations, adding support for custom intervals and other provider-specific configurations, particularly for the UpTimeRobot and Pingdom providers. These changes included modifications to code and test files, demonstrating a focus on code quality and feature enhancement.
monitorcontrolleruptimerobotuptime-checkeropenshift
stakater/draft-pack
Oct 2018 - Jul 2020
A draft pack containing sample drafts for our apps
Contributions:10 PRs, 24 pushes, 14 branches in 1 year 10 months
androiddraftspackappsdraftpack
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