Mehdi Khan
Software Engineer at Contentful
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMehdi Khan is a backend and infrastructure engineer with about 15 years of experience, now building Go-based Kubernetes operators and internal developer platforms at Contentful in Berlin. He blends hands-on systems work—24/7 on-call ownership of production infrastructure—with a background in Node.js microservices, event-driven architecture, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP). Previously he led engineering teams and delivered resilient distributed systems for startups and scale-ups, including designing observability dashboards and optimizing Kubernetes deployments. An early open-source maintainer, he contributed DevOps improvements to the popular meteor-up project, streamlining deployment and setup workflows. His career path also includes founding work on widely used tooling (Avro Keyboard) and an unusual academic start in medicine, reflecting a pragmatic, cross-disciplinary problem-solving style.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) at Mymensingh Medical College
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Github Skills (13)
configuration-management10
nodejs10
meteor10
devops10
deployment-automation10
javascript9
http6
asynchronous6
web-application6
chunked-encoding6
google-app-engine6
mysql6
java6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
arunoda/meteor-up-legacy
Jan 2014 - Jan 2014
Production Quality Meteor Deployments
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:9 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Mehdi primarily focused on improving the setup and configuration process for deploying Meteor applications. Their contributions involved adding arguments to setup functions and integrating configuration options for server setup and deployment. This includes modifications to the `taskLists.js` and `actions.js` files to streamline the deployment setup and environment configuration, as well as adding support for skipping certain steps. They also initialized configuration options for node and phantom setup.
meteordeploymentdeploymentsproductionquality
mugli/orkid-api
Feb 2019 - Oct 2019
GraphQL API to monitor and manage Orkid task queue ⚙️
Contributions:8 releases, 83 commits, 47 pushes in 8 months
apimonitorredisgraphql-apijob-queue
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