Mohammad Ahmad
Sr System Reliability Engineer at Nutanix
Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMohammad Ahmad is a Senior System Reliability Engineer with 11+ years in enterprise virtualization and hyperconvergence, including nine years at VMware and a current role at Nutanix. He brings deep hands-on expertise across ESXi, vCenter, storage (SAN, NAS, iSCSI, Fibre Channel), networking, Linux system internals and automation with PowerCLI and shell tooling. At Nutanix he focuses on operational reliability and scalable platform engineering, building on a background of escalations, root-cause analysis and vendor collaboration for mission-critical environments. Beyond commercial work he contributes to open-source networking—enhancing flannel’s VXLAN and AWS VPC backends to improve route handling and cloud integration. Based in Ontario, Canada, he pairs a pragmatically curious approach with continuous learning, having built custom Linux distributions and taught Linux at Seneca College earlier in his career. Mohammad is motivated by technically challenging roles where his deep virtualization and networking experience can drive stability and efficient cloud-native operations.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Networking and Technical Support, Computer Networking and Technical Support at Seneca College of Applied Arts and TechnologyBachelor's degree, Psychology, Bachelor's degree, Psychology at University of Toronto
English, Urdu
Github Skills (12)
network10
kubernetes10
vxlan10
flannel10
go10
aws10
backend10
back-end-development10
kubernetes-pods10
dockers9
docker9
gcp5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
flannel-io/flannel
May 2015 - Aug 2015
flannel is a network fabric for containers, designed for Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 23 PRs, 8 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Mohammad primarily contributed to the backend of the flannel project, focusing on the VXLAN and AWS VPC backends. Their work involved modifying the VXLAN backend to dynamically handle L3 misses and integrating it with a routes module. Furthermore, the user implemented features for the AWS VPC backend, including automatically detecting the Route Table ID, disabling source destination checks, and reusing route entries when matches are found. These changes aimed to improve the functionality and efficiency of flannel's network management capabilities.
containersdocker-imagefabricoverlay-networkflannel
MohdAhmad/flannel
May 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:58 pushes, 12 branches in 6 months
containersetcdfabricflanneldocker
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