Faraaz Khan
President & Co-Founder at Samtek Inc
Dallas, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolFaraaz Khan is a cloud-native technology leader and entrepreneur with over a decade of experience building and operating large-scale cloud and container platforms. As President and Co-Founder of Samtek, and previously acting CTO, he blends hands-on Kubernetes/controller development with enterprise cloud architecture, DevOps, and organizational change management. He has advised and led engineering at Apple, Rackspace, McKinsey, Aetna, HP and multiple federal agencies, delivering cloud transformation and resilient microservices across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Equally comfortable in code and strategy, he pairs full‑stack web development skills (Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Django, Go) with infrastructure automation (Docker, Ansible, Chef) and a focus on test-driven delivery. Known for empathetic technical leadership, he often acts as the bridge between engineering teams and business stakeholders to drive measurable operational improvements. His academic background (MS in Computer Science) and long consulting pedigree give him a pragmatic, security- and reliability-minded approach to scaling cloud platforms.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Louisiana at LafayetteBachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Osmania University
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Github Skills (136)
ruby10
scheduling10
kubernetes-setup10
k8s10
mesos10
charts10
kubernetes-cluster10
linux10
kubernetes-deployment10
helm10
kubernetes10
aws-cloudformation10
go10
macos10
package-manager10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
faraazkhan/kubernetes
Jun 2017 - Oct 2022
Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
Contributions:7 pushes in 5 years 4 months
containersschedulingdockergradeproduction-grade
faraazkhan/diagnostics
Aug 2017 - Jun 2023
Contributions:32 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
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