Khaled Emara
Production Engineer at Meta
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKhaled Emara is a Production Engineer at Meta with six years of experience operating and scaling PB‑scale systems, focused on reliability, capacity management and supply efficiency for Ads Online Experimentation. He blends low‑level systems design and DevSecOps expertise—demonstrated through open-source work on Kyverno CLI/API improvements and performance fixes—with hands‑on cloud platform engineering across EKS, Kafka, and Terraform. Khaled has a strong track record of cost, performance and security optimizations (e.g., cutting Athena costs 10x and improving policy performance by 60%), and has implemented zero‑trust admission controls and policy-as-code guardrails in production GitOps pipelines. His background includes systems work in Rust on filesystems and database abstraction, giving him a unique perspective on kernel/userland interactions and portable, high‑performance components. Based in the UK, he combines product‑focused engineering with open‑source collaboration, often tackling the intersection of backend, tooling and deployment to drive measurable operational gains.
6 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Software Engineering at Ain Shams University
Github Skills (13)
kubernetes10
go10
group-policy10
policies10
kubernetes-pods10
apidoc9
unit-test9
api9
cli8
devops8
automations7
automation7
yaml6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
kyverno/kyverno
Nov 2023 - Feb 2025
Cloud Native Policy Management
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:87 reviews, 127 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:This user, Khaled Emara, made significant contributions to the Kyverno project, primarily focused on enhancing the command-line interface (CLI) for policy testing, and adding new API clients, including the events and global context controller. His work involved modifying the CLI output to handle excluded resources and adding unit tests. Furthermore, he implemented features for API integrations and improvements in the events processing, which indicates involvement across both backend and deployment aspects. He also addressed performance issues related to the global context.
policycosignpolicy-managementk8skubernetes
KhaledEmaraDev/kyverno
Nov 2023 - Feb 2025
Kubernetes Native Policy Management
Contributions:26 PRs, 444 pushes, 97 branches in 1 year 3 months
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