Mohammad Shaikh
Senior Software Engineer at Tesla
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMohammad Shaikh is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and distributed systems, currently working on vehicle technology at Tesla in Austin. He has a strong track record at Red Hat, where he led Windows support in OpenShift—shipping a Kubernetes operator for Windows nodes, egress proxy support, node health monitoring, and pipeline automation that sped releases by 33%. Comfortable across Go, Java, and DevOps tooling, he has contributed to the widely used openshift/release CI/CD tooling to improve cross-platform image mirroring and test environments for Windows containers and CSI drivers. Mohammad blends systems-level engineering with pragmatic product delivery, having also modernized payment microservices and production pipelines at FIS. He mentors and is mentored in equal measure, driving knowledge transfer while uncovering subtle platform bugs (including collaborating with Microsoft on an OS fix). Outside core engineering, he’s motivated by sustainable energy and known for shipping security- and metrics-focused improvements that make platforms more reliable.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Burlington High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Northeastern University
Hindi, Arabic, Spanish, English
Github Skills (16)
sh10
kubernetes10
script10
docker10
bash10
openshift10
shell10
dockers10
scripting10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
windows-containers9
infrastructure-as-code9
vsphere8
python8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/release
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
Release tooling for OpenShift
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:83 reviews, 8 commits, 27 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Mohammad primarily contributed to the CI/CD pipeline and infrastructure configuration for OpenShift release tooling. They modified scripts related to image mirroring, ensuring that the correct images, including those for Windows containers and CSI drivers, are available for testing and deployment. The user also addressed dependencies, such as installing `pip`, and made adjustments to node selectors for specific operating systems within the Kubernetes environment. These changes aimed to improve build automation, cross-platform compatibility, and test environment setup.
continuous-deploymentkubernetesopenshifttooling
saifshaikh48/release
Jun 2021 - Oct 2024
Contributions:77 pushes, 29 branches in 3 years 4 months
kubernetesopenshifttooling
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