Kian Mohageri
Principal Infrastructure Engineer at BlackSky
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKian Mohageri is a Principal Infrastructure Engineer based in the Greater Seattle Area with over 20 years of experience designing, operating, and hardening mission-critical Linux/Unix-like environments. He blends deep operational expertise in networking, security, and scalability with an automation-first approach developed across roles from campus sysadmin to engineering manager and principal at BlackSky. Kian has led and mentored SRE/DevOps teams, shipping resilient infrastructure and security controls for high-availability services. He is passionate about open-source tooling and pragmatic automation, favoring solutions that reduce toil while improving auditability. Colleagues rely on him for practical, security-minded architecture decisions that scale from single servers to distributed fleets.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Management Information Systems, General, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Management Information Systems, General at Western Washington University
Github Skills (120)
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terraform10
sudo10
kubernetes-setup10
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classification-algorithm10
sounds10
pathofexile10
kubernetes-deployment10
mining10
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economy10
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
makethunder/awsudo
Oct 2015 - Sep 2017
sudo-like utility to manage AWS credentials
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 1 year 11 months
aws-clisudocredentialsawsawscli
makethunder/puppet-bootstrap
Aug 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 4 pushes, 4 branches in 6 months
machinesbootstrapsingle-filepuppet
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