Summary
Navid Yaghoobi is a Product Owner and seasoned infrastructure/DevOps leader based in Greater Melbourne with 11 years of experience designing and operating secure, high-availability systems. He has progressed through hands-on roles at Thales—from Linux and virtualization engineer to Senior DevOps and now Product Owner—bringing deep expertise in Red Hat Virtualization, SR-IOV, VDI/NVIDIA vGPU, cloud POCs (AWS/Azure), and hardened Linux (NIST/STIG). Navid combines infrastructure automation (Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins), configuration auditing (Chef InSpec), and monitoring (Zabbix, Prometheus) to deliver auditable, production-ready platforms for safety-critical products like TopSky-ATC. His background running large-scale OS deployments, storage and clustering (ZFS, VMware), and identity services (IPA, Kerberos) gives him a rare blend of low-level systems skill and product-minded integration leadership. He also has a history teaching Red Hat system administration and supporting university courses, which informs his ability to translate complex technical constraints into actionable product requirements. Known for pragmatic scripting in Bash, Python and Go and cross-disciplinary collaboration, he excels at turning infrastructure complexity into reliable, secure outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master, IT (Computer Networking and System Engineer), Master, IT (Computer Networking and System Engineer) at Deakin University
· B.Sc, Computer Software Engineering, · B.Sc, Computer Software Engineering at Islamic Azad University