Saeid Askari
Software Engineer at Red Hat
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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RockstarSaeid Askari is a software engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building and migrating high-traffic, cloud-native systems, currently contributing at Red Hat from Canada. He led large-scale Kubernetes and observability projects at Cafe Bazaar, improving uptime and reducing recovery times for services serving tens of millions of users, and later re-architected monoliths into resilient cloud deployments using Terraform, EKS and containerized testing at Cydarien. Saeid combines strong back-end engineering with security-focused tooling—having built attack engines and fuzzing platforms that dramatically cut integration and testing time. A competitive problem-solver with multiple international AI and algorithm awards, he pairs academic rigor (MS Computer Science, 3.9 GPA) with pragmatic delivery in production environments. Notably, he has driven developer productivity gains (mentoring, training, CI/CD improvements) that translated directly into faster onboarding and measurable cost savings.
11 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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175answers
13questions
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Github Skills (46)
monitoring10
openshift10
documentation10
apriori9
cnf9
algorithm9
kubernetes9
e2e9
go9
prometheus9
prometheus-operator9
recursion9
parser8
docker8
python8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
sudomakeinstall2/cnf-features-deploy
Nov 2021 - Oct 2025
Kustomize configs for installing CNF features and e2e functional tests for verifying feature deployment/integration
Contributions:64 pushes, 19 branches in 3 years 11 months
deploymentinstallingconfigsk8skubernetes
sudomakeinstall2/cluster-group-upgrades-operator
May 2022 - Mar 2026
Contributions:1 PR, 261 pushes, 128 branches in 3 years 10 months
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