Amir Alavi
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Zendesk
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolAmir Alavi is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in Atlanta with over a decade of professional experience building and leading cloud-native platforms and distributed systems. He combines hands-on backend and DevOps expertise—especially with Kubernetes, Go, and AWS/GCP—with leadership experience scaling teams and production data platforms at companies like Zendesk, Cox Automotive, and GE. Amir is an active open-source contributor to prominent Kubernetes projects (Karmada, Descheduler, OpenCost), where he’s improved reliability, test parallelism, and multi-cluster/cloud integrations—practical work that complements his platform-focused engineering. He has a track record of modernizing authentication and cloud migrations for large application fleets and of automating build, release, and infra-as-code pipelines. An MBA from Georgia Tech and a long history in both consulting and engineering management give him a blend of technical depth and product/operational judgment that helps bridge engineering and business needs.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville
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Github Skills (24)
kubernetes10
testing10
go10
aws10
helm10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml10
cloud-native10
devops10
container9
cicd9
cost-optimization9
cloud-infrastructure9
multi-cluster9
automation9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-sigs/descheduler
May 2021 - Jan 2023
Descheduler for Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 releases, 292 reviews, 55 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Amir's contributions primarily focus on enhancing the functionality and maintainability of the descheduler for Kubernetes. They introduced new features for TopologySpreadConstraint strategy to handle node eligibility and filter pods. Further work involved bumping dependencies, and automating build and release processes via helm chart. These commits indicate a focus on improving the core logic and automation of the project.
golangkubernetesk8s-sig-scheduling
karmada-io/karmada
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
Open, Multi-Cloud, Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Orchestration
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:81 reviews, 6 commits, 51 PRs in 12 days
Contributions summary:Amir primarily contributed to the project by enhancing test functionality and improving resource interpretation within the Karmada project. They added parallel execution to sub-tests and corrected health interpretations for various Kubernetes resources. Further contributions included implementing a "managed-by" label for resources managed by Karmada controllers and adding propagation suspension capabilities. These changes suggest a focus on improving the project's functionality and reliability.
containerscloud-computingmulti-clusterorchestrationcloud
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