Dewan Ahmed
Principal Developer Advocate
Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
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Top SchoolDewan Ahmed is a Principal Developer Advocate at Harness with eight years of hands-on experience solving DevOps and infrastructure challenges across startups, enterprises, and government. He blends developer relations, content strategy, and deep technical writing to improve CI/CD, GitOps, and container image security—work exemplified by tutorials and webinars on cosign and OPA. Previously he shaped developer experiences at Aiven, Red Hat, and IBM, where he also contributed to OpenShift learning labs and automated deployment tooling. A visible public speaker since 2016 and active open-source contributor, he combines practical engineering (automation, Go, Java) with empathetic community work, offering pro bono career coaching and advocacy for underrepresented groups. Based in Moncton, New Brunswick, he maintains a technical blog and curated content hub that surfaces both tutorials and reflections on a career in tech.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at United International UniversityToronto Metropolitan University
Bengali, English
Stackoverflow
185reputation
11kreached
1answer
5questions
Github Skills (19)
bash10
openshift10
kubernetes9
dockers9
cicd9
docker9
kubernetes-pods9
maven8
spring-boot7
macos6
jenkins-pipeline6
javas6
kabanero6
tekton-pipelines6
openshift-pipelines6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
openshift-labs/learn-katacoda
Jun 2021 - Nov 2021
The OpenShift learning portal, powered by Katacoda
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 56 commits, 15 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Dewan's contributions primarily focus on updating and configuring the environment for OpenShift labs. They made updates to image versions and Maven settings. Their work includes modifications to shell scripts used for setting up environments, specifically related to the deployment of serverless operators and Spring Boot applications. The user's commits indicate a focus on automating deployments and course setup for various OpenShift-related scenarios.
commonsopenshiftportalkuberneteslearning-portal
dewan-ahmed/spring-framework
Sep 2024 - Apr 2025
Contributions:10 PRs, 235 pushes, 8 branches in 6 months
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