Jamil Ahmed
Technology Manager at Best Buy Canada
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJamil Ahmed is a Technology Manager in Vancouver with 18 years of experience blending Linux systems engineering, software development, and cloud-native platform operations. He has 2+ years focused on Red Hat OpenShift administration and a decade managing enterprise Linux infrastructure and automation with Ansible, Puppet and CI/CD tooling. At Best Buy Canada he progressed from Senior DevOps and OpenShift lead roles to Technology Manager, driving platform design, deployment automation and observability at scale. He also brings a long history of leading development teams and FOSS localization projects—having coordinated volunteer localization efforts for Bengali—demonstrating both people leadership and community-oriented engineering. His background combines hands-on operational expertise with documented architectural practice and a habit of turning PoCs into production-ready automation.
18 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Network Administration and Security Professional, Certificate, Network Administration and Security Professional at British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) and University of British Columbia (UBC)B.Sc., Computer Science, B.Sc., Computer Science at Institute of Science and Technology
Github Skills (83)
pygobject10
gnome10
nautilus10
locker9
glib9
control-center9
gtk9
hijri9
gtk-rs9
display-manager9
gedit9
gitlab9
backgrounds8
gift8
totem8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
GNOME/gnome-keyring
Sep 2009 - Apr 2011
Stores passwords and encryption keys
Contributions:5 commits in 1 year 7 months
encryption-keyscryptographypasswordssecuritypassword-manager
City-busz/gnome-bluetooth-applet
Sep 2009 - Apr 2011
Contributions:4 commits in 1 year 7 months
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