Summary
Jahan Syed is a Site Reliability Engineer based in London with 10 years of hands-on experience building and operating secure, cloud-native infrastructure for fintech and healthtech companies. He has progressed from Cloud Engineer to Head of Infrastructure and Senior DevOps roles at organizations like Hornbill, CloudMargin, Callsign, Babylon Health and now Thought Machine, bringing deep expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, Docker and networking. Trained as an electrical and electronics engineer (MEng, Queen Mary University of London), he combines systems-level thinking with practical SRE practices to harden platforms and automate reliability at scale. Known for pragmatic incident response and infrastructure ownership, he often bridges engineering and security priorities in regulated environments. Notably, his career emphasizes moving teams from manual ops to repeatable, containerised CI/CD pipelines that improve both velocity and auditability.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master of Engineering (MEng), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Queen Mary University of London