Ovais Tariq
Founder at tigrisdata
California, United States
Summary
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RockstarOvais Tariq is a founder and seasoned software leader with 14 years of experience building real-time storage and infrastructure platforms from California. As Co-Founder & CEO at Tigris Data, he focuses on modern realtime data systems and brings hands-on expertise in DevOps and production monitoring. His open-source contributions include meaningful Nagios/PagerDuty integrations—improving alerting, templating, and incident workflows—reflecting a pragmatic, operations-first approach to reliability. Comfortable bridging engineering and product, he combines startup leadership with deep technical craftsmanship in observability and scalable systems. Notably, his background shows a bias toward shipping practical integrations that reduce toil and improve incident response at scale.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (13)
nagios10
chef-client10
cookbook10
pagerduty10
chef-solo10
perl10
yaml9
automations8
automation8
githubaction-workflow7
github-ci7
api6
apidoc6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
sous-chefs/nagios
Sep 2015 - Oct 2015
Development repository for the nagios cookbook
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 14 comments in 19 days
Contributions summary:Ovais primarily contributed to the integration and configuration of PagerDuty within the Nagios monitoring system. Their work involved modifying recipes and templates to enable proper communication and alerting through PagerDuty, including setting up a CGI script. Additionally, the user fixed bugs, improved code readability, and implemented features such as allowing contact groups to be specified for PagerDuty contacts. These changes enhanced the Nagios cookbook's ability to integrate with PagerDuty for incident management.
nagioschef-resourcechefmanaged-by-terraform
tigrisdata/tigris-docs
Mar 2022 - Feb 2023
Tigris documentation project
Contributions:264 reviews, 138 commits, 358 PRs in 10 months
tigrisproject-documentationmongodb-alternativenosql-databaseserverless-database
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