Fayaaz Ahmed
Senior Platform Engineer
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolFayaaz Ahmed is a Senior Platform Engineer with 12 years’ experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure across energy, aerospace and cybersecurity sectors. He combines deep Linux and Python skills with hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform and CI/CD to migrate and run production clusters, write Helm charts, and automate platform deployment. At startups he’s led DR planning, MLOps adoption and cloud porting efforts, while at larger teams he has driven GitLab and service mesh migrations. A University of Oxford physics graduate, he brings analytical rigor to systems engineering and a pragmatic focus on reliability and observability. Outside work he contributes to open-source projects like Mixxx, where he implemented low-level HID controller features and DJ effects—an indicator of both hardware-level control experience and attention to user-facing detail. Now based in London, he excels at translating complex technical requirements into maintainable, production-ready platforms.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Abingdon SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Physics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Physics at University of Oxford
English
Github Skills (6)
midi10
midi-instrument10
audio10
hid10
javascript10
qt7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mixxxdj/mixxx
Mar 2018 - Jul 2021
Mixxx is Free DJ software that gives you everything you need to perform live mixes.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 30 commits, 10 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Fayaaz primarily contributed to the Traktor Kontrol S4 MK2 HID controller script, focusing on implementing and enhancing features related to DJ controller functionality. Their work includes adding comments and detailed explanations of code related to LED display segments for loop counters, which suggests in-depth hardware control. They also added and modified FX (effect) features, including the addition of FX buttons, meta data, and the shift jogwheel functions.
everythingwindowshidmidilinux
fayaaz/mixxx-pi-gen
Jul 2020 - Dec 2022
Raspberry Pi image with Mixxx
Contributions:11 releases, 124 commits, 47 PRs in 2 years 4 months
raspberry-pipi-imageraspbianraspberrymixxx
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