Mahmoud Saada
Senior Site Reliability Engineer II at Carta
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMahmoud Saada is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 14 years of experience building developer platforms, runbooks, and observability for cloud-native and regulated environments from startups to enterprise. Based in New York, he combines deep Kubernetes and SRE expertise (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) with hands-on software engineering—improving developer experience at Carta by shipping Backstage plugins, speeding Python monolith test performance, and migrating linters and type-checking tools. He has driven complex infra migrations and observability stacks, led Kafka and Helm/ArgoCD-driven delivery pipelines, and contributed to notable open-source projects such as Flux’s helm-operator where he improved Helm v2→v3 migrations and test stability. Known for reducing developer toil via self-service tooling, CLI/UIs, and telemetry-driven improvements, he brings a pragmatic blend of platform design, cross-team collaboration, and performance tuning. An early full-stack founder and persistent open-source zealot, Mahmoud pairs production-grade operational rigor with a developer-first sensibility.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Baccalaureate, Math, Baccalaureate, Math at College de la Sainte Famille (Jesuites)Associate Degree, Computer Science, Associate Degree, Computer Science at Irvine Valley CollegeBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Arizona State University
English, French, Arabic
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Github Skills (21)
kubernetes10
gitops10
go10
helm10
kubernetes-pods10
testing9
legacy-app9
linux9
legacy-database9
legacy-code9
sh9
docker8
dockers8
libpng6
timezone6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
fluxcd/helm-operator
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
Successor: https://github.com/fluxcd/helm-controller — The Flux Helm Operator, once upon a time a solution for declarative Helming.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 24 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Mahmoud primarily contributed to the Helm operator's functionality, focusing on the migration of Helm releases from version 2 to 3, and improved the operator's overall stability. They added support for tiller-less migrations and implemented bug fixes to ensure correct behavior during migration. Additionally, the user made enhancements to the testing infrastructure, including improved teardowns and increased probe failure thresholds.
controllerhelm-operatorhelmhelm-chartdeclarative
saada/yii2-factory-muffin
Feb 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:10 commits, 6 PRs, 34 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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