Fawad Khaliq
Founder & CTO at Chkk
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolFawad Khaliq is a founder‑CTO and seasoned cloud-native engineer with 11 years’ experience building resilient, large‑scale infrastructure and developer platforms from VMware and PLUMgrid to Amazon EKS and his startup Chkk. He led networking and service connectivity for EKS across 25+ regions—owning CNI, pod IPAM, ENI, load balancing and multi‑AZ reliability—and translated that hyperscale operational experience into Chkk, an agentic lifecycle platform that automates safe upgrades, patching, and verification across complex Cloud Native stacks. Known for blending systems-level engineering with operational rigor, he built eBPF‑based networking at PLUMgrid and helped author application-aware networking on Istio/Envoy at Tanzu Service Mesh. At Chkk he’s focused on human+AI co‑execution and durable workflows to shrink weeks of manual upgrade work into days while preserving compliance and safety. Based in the Bay Area and backed by Sequoia, he brings a pragmatic obsession with learning from failures to prevent repeat incidents—designing tools that make fragile, interconnected infrastructures materially safer.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) ECE, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) ECE at University of TorontoBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) at National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)
Urdu, English
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Github Skills (80)
controller10
scheduling10
elasticsearch10
k8s10
echo-server10
mesh10
kubernetes-cluster10
helm10
kubernetes10
aws-cloudformation10
go10
elastic10
load-balancer10
amazon10
amazon-eks10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
fawadkhaliq/plumgrid-docker
Jul 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch, 2 comments in 6 months
fawadkhaliq/fawadkhaliq.github.io
Dec 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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