Saad Zaher
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Ireland
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Top SchoolSaad Zaher is a Principal Software Engineer and cloud specialist with 11+ years designing and delivering cloud-native systems across public and private clouds, currently focused on GenAI model training and OpenShift AI at Red Hat. He has deep OpenStack roots—leading the Freezer backup/DR project—and a track record helping startups to global enterprises migrate and automate infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP. At HPE he built cloud data platforms, monitoring integrations for GreenLake, and led edge/AI innovation work, blending platform engineering with pragmatic DevOps and IaC practices. An enthusiastic open-source contributor and former OpenStack PTL, he pairs hands-on coding with strategic architecture and customer-facing consulting for C-level cloud strategy. Based in Ireland, he also holds a Master's in AI, bringing recent ML/AI platform experience to his cloud-first engineering lens.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Artificial Intelligence, Master's degree Artificial Intelligence at University of GalwayBachelor Information Technology, Bachelor Information Technology at Faculty of Computers and Information - Cairo University
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Github Skills (118)
xgboost10
trainer10
python10
kubeflow10
gcp10
huggingface10
gpu10
rest-api10
lvm10
ai10
fine-tuning10
azure10
jax10
opendev10
pytorch10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
HewlettPackard/catena
Nov 2017 - Jan 2023
Contributions:3 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 5 years 2 months
szaher/sdk
Apr 2025 - Nov 2025
Kubeflow SDK for ML Experience
Contributions:2 PRs, 77 pushes, 18 branches in 6 months
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