Furqan Qureshi
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Vantage
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolFurqan Qureshi is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 13 years in software and 6+ years focused on SRE, known for architecting highly available, cost-efficient cloud systems across startups and scale-ups. He has driven multi-million dollar AWS and GCP savings through instance modernization, reserved capacity, and VM optimizations while executing zero-downtime migrations. Furqan blends hands-on engineering (from high-throughput Go services to logging pipelines with Fluentbit/Fluentd) with strong mentorship—several mentees advanced to permanent or higher roles under his guidance. He’s the rare individual contributor who served as Incident Commander at scale and led cross-team migrations (Nomad to Kubernetes, GitLab to GitHub) with measurable reliability and cost outcomes. Based in Toronto with a Waterloo software engineering background and an MBA-style master’s in entrepreneurship, he prioritizes impact and seeks challenges that push teams beyond their comfort zones.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Entrepreneurship and Technology, Master of Business Entrepreneurship and Technology at University of Waterloo
English
Github Skills (12)
500px10
flickr7
api-documentation7
api7
web-application5
installer4
react4
ansible2
dynamodb2
golang2
javascript1
aws1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
furcon/furcon.github.io
Nov 2016 - Mar 2024
Contributions:92 pushes in 7 years 5 months
reactweb-application
furcon/dotfiles
Apr 2013 - Jun 2016
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes in 3 years 2 months
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