Nasir Hussain
Software Engineer
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SeniorNasir Hussain is a DevOps-focused software engineer and undergraduate research assistant at UCLA with nine years of hands-on experience across backend engineering, open source infrastructure, and operations. He brings specialist expertise in IaC, CI/CD, containers, and Linux packaging—working extensively with Terraform, Jenkins, Codefresh and Google Cloud Platform while exploring Kubernetes and the Linux kernel. A prolific open-source contributor, Nasir has been active in Fedora, NixOS and Rocky Linux projects, leading the Fedora i3wm SIG and modernizing infrastructure like Fedora Badges and Møte. He has led cross-functional teams, run meetings and maintained build artifacts and kickstart files, demonstrating both technical depth and operational ownership. Outside core infrastructure work he develops Android apps and founded community initiatives to teach teens coding, reflecting a blend of applied engineering and mentorship. Based in Los Angeles, he pairs academic research with real-world open-source impact and a track record of moving projects from proof-of-concept to production.
9 years of coding experienceGithub contributions (5)
SyedNasirHussain/FacebookDownloader
Nov 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:5 commits, 2 pushes in 13 days
SyedNasirHussain/Resume
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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