Farshid Tavakolizadeh
Engineering Manager at Canonical
Greater Dusseldorf Area Germany
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Top SchoolFarshid Tavakolizadeh is an engineering manager with 14 years of experience designing and deploying secure, interoperable IoT-to-cloud systems, currently leading Matter and EdgeX Foundry efforts at Canonical. He combines hands-on DevOps and deployment engineering—evident from contributions to the EdgeX Foundry edgex-go monorepo and Snap packaging—with standards work as a co-author of the W3C Web of Things Discovery specification. His background spans research and technical leadership at Fraunhofer FIT, where he bridged on-premises and cloud IoT architectures and served as a Scrum master for complex projects. Farshid focuses on making IoT software easier and safer to deploy in heterogeneous environments, blending protocol-level interoperability with practical security improvements. Based in the Greater Düsseldorf area, he brings a rare mix of academic rigor from RWTH Aachen and Multimedia University along with production-grade open-source engineering. Notably, his work often targets the gaps between standards, packaging, and real-world deployments, turning specifications into usable, secure tooling.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Media Informatics, Master's Degree, Media Informatics at RWTH Aachen UniversityBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, First-Class Honours, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, First-Class Honours at Multimedia University
English, German, Persian, Chinese
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Github Skills (15)
foundry10
sh10
configuration-management10
script10
bash10
docker10
edg10
snapcraft10
shell10
edges10
dockers10
scripting10
cicd9
go8
fest4
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
edgexfoundry/edgex-go
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
EdgeX Golang Services Monorepo | Owner: Core/Support WG
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:183 reviews, 31 commits, 84 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Farshid primarily focused on configuring and maintaining the EdgeX Foundry project's deployment and configuration within a Snap package. Their contributions involved modifying shell scripts for deployment, configuring environment variables, and integrating services. The user also worked on updating dependencies and refactoring the installation and configuration processes. The changes ensured that the EdgeX services were properly configured and started, incorporating improvements to the security setup.
golangmonorepoedgexowner-coreowner
farshidtz/edgex-device-usb-camera
May 2022 - Oct 2023
Contributions:1 PR, 53 pushes, 27 branches in 1 year 5 months
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