Navid Danesh
Software Engineer - Devops at IconPro - A.I. Solutions
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolNavid Danesh is a Software Engineer focused on backend and DevOps with a decade of professional experience and a strong academic foundation (M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Computer Science). He has built and operated distributed systems and scalable search platforms serving millions of users, including an in-house Elasticsearch-based map search and backend services for a 30M-user app store. At IconPro he led a cost-saving migration off AWS EKS, built a self-managed 12-node Kubernetes cluster with autoscaling and HA, and created a monitoring stack from scratch (Grafana, Loki, Prometheus). He combines hands-on engineering—CI/CD automation, pytest integration, Helm/Kind deployments—with operational ownership of cloud security and cost optimization. A competitive programmer by background, he brings rigorous CS fundamentals to practical production problems and a knack for reducing operational toil. Based in Cologne, he excels at turning research-grade tooling into repeatable, production-ready pipelines for ML and search workloads.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree Computer Software Engineering at RWTH Aachen UniversityBachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at University of TehranHigh School Diploma Mathematics and Physics, High School Diploma Mathematics and Physics at National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents (Sampad)
English, German, Persian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (47)
visual-studio8
typescript8
remote-development8
vscode8
vscode-extension8
visual-studio-code8
microsoft7
electron7
texlive7
java7
devcontainer7
docker-container7
editor7
ssh7
kind6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Navidda/navidda.github.io
Feb 2019 - May 2024
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
Navidda/website-subscribe-bot
Apr 2023 - Feb 2025
A telegram bot for monitoring updates to a particular website
Contributions:1 PR, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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