Kalbir Sohi
Government Chief AI Officer at Government Digital Service
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolKalbir Sohi is a technology and product leader with 12 years’ experience building cloud-native platforms, security-focused developer tooling, and large-scale infrastructure products across government and major tech firms. As the UK Government’s first Chief AI Officer, he now focuses on responsibly scaling AI to improve public services, combining a product mindset with deep engineering and operational experience. He has led platform teams that powered services for millions of users at HMRC, drove infrastructure product strategy at Spotify and Facebook, and co-founded a security-first cloud startup that simplified secure deployments. A PhD-trained philosopher who also studied mathematics at Oxford, Kalbir brings rare cross-disciplinary rigor to technical strategy and governance. He favors learning-by-doing—rapid prototyping, testing, and scaling what works—to turn complex policy and technical trade-offs into practical, auditable solutions.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Mathematics and Philosophy, Master's Degree Mathematics and Philosophy at University of OxfordDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Philosophy, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Philosophy at King's College London
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Github Skills (59)
amazon-eks10
kubernetes10
moj-cloud-platform10
kubernetes-cluster10
amazon-web-services10
kubernetes-deployment10
aws-cloudformation10
aws10
cloud-platform10
kubelet10
kubernetes-setup10
k8s10
amazon10
documentation10
cli10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
kalbir/personal-awesome-list
Feb 2018 - Aug 2021
Contributions:47 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
kalbir/kalbirsohi.net
Sep 2015 - Jan 2025
My site: https://kalbirsohi.net
Contributions:22 PRs, 63 pushes, 31 branches in 9 years 5 months
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