Ali Khajeh-hosseini
Co-Founder at Infracost
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAli Khajeh-hosseini is a seasoned software leader and entrepreneur with 15 years of experience building cloud-native products and teams. As co-founder of Infracost, he leads Product and Customer Success to help engineering teams "shift FinOps left," turning cloud cost insights into actionable decisions before deployment; the project is notable on GitHub for integrating cost estimates into Terraform pull requests. Previously he co-founded and exited two cloud startups, built public CaaS platforms, and led engineering at RightScale where he scaled international teams and cloud analytics products. He combines deep academic training (PhD in Computer Science, MSc in High Performance Computing) with hands-on infrastructure work—having directly improved Terraform handling for AWS block devices and CI via GitHub Actions. Based in San Diego, he blends technical pragmatism with product-first thinking to make cloud infrastructure both efficient and predictable.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MSc High Performance Computing, MSc High Performance Computing at The University of EdinburghY CombinatorPhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University of St AndrewsBSc (Hons) Computer Science, BSc (Hons) Computer Science at Robert Gordon University
Github Skills (6)
infrastructure-as-code10
terraformer10
aws10
devops10
terraform10
go4
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
infracost/infracost
Jun 2020 - Sep 2022
Cloud cost intelligence for engineers, AI coding agents, and CI/CD 💰📉 Shift FinOps Left!
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:7 releases, 423 reviews, 380 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ali primarily contributed to improving the infrastructure-as-code capabilities of the project, specifically related to AWS EC2 instances. Their work involved modifying Terraform configurations to support features like block devices, including root and EBS block devices, ensuring their proper instantiation. They also made improvements related to output formatting, including adding `--no-color` and output sorting. The user added a GitHub Action that enhanced the CI/CD pipeline.
aicicdterraformcost-estimationinfrastructure-as-code
alikhajeh1/example-terraform
Jun 2023 - Feb 2026
Example Terraform project
Contributions:1 release, 7 reviews, 161 PRs in 2 years 8 months
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