Farhad Farahi is a Cloud Engineering leader with over a decade of experience designing resilient, cost-efficient infrastructure and leading teams through high-traffic, enterprise-scale migrations. Currently Director of Technology in Hamburg, he combines hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, Kafka, Druid, and data lake architectures with systems programming in Go and Rust to deliver platforms that handle billions of daily requests. Known for reducing maintenance overhead and improving stability, he has a track record of implementing CI/CD, introducing Kubernetes at scale, and enabling real-time analytics via Kafka+Druid pipelines. An active open-source contributor, he has also improved backend functionality in the widely used Mautic marketing automation project, reflecting a pragmatic focus on integration and email workflows. Farhad’s background in datacenter and network engineering gives him an uncommon operational depth for a cloud director, allowing him to bridge legacy infrastructure and modern cloud-native design.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Informationstechnologie, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Informationstechnologie at Qazvin Islamic Azad University
College Degree ICT, College Degree ICT at Ghiasedin Jamshid Kashani College
Mautic: Open Source Marketing Automation Software.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:9 commits, 4 PRs, 25 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Farhad primarily contributed to the back-end of the Mautic application, focusing on bug fixes and feature enhancements related to email functionality. This includes modifying the CampaignBundle, which suggests involvement in marketing automation workflows, and making adjustments to the EmailBundle, specifically regarding email read percentage calculations and display. The user also made updates in the API bundle, contributing to the application's overall functionality and potentially improving integration capabilities.
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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