Sako M
Member Of Technical Staff at Stealth Startup
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSako M is a platform-focused software engineer with 10+ years of global experience across startups and large enterprises, currently building platform engineering at a stealth San Francisco startup. He blends deep security, DevOps, and AI interests with hands-on work in Kubernetes, CI/CD, cloud cost and reliability optimization, and compliance (PCI DSS, SOC2, FedRAMP). His career spans platform and security leadership roles at Gladly, OpenGov, and NGINX, plus industrial cyber-security research at Fraunhofer and SAP, reflecting a rare mix of production ops and threat-research experience. He holds three MSc degrees from different countries and brings an entrepreneurial mindset—treating engineering as value creation rather than just feature delivery. Outside work he pairs disciplined fitness habits with a philosophy of giving more than he takes, which informs his collaborative, service-oriented approach to building resilient systems.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at ASOAFrance: MSc, Computer Security and Communications, France: MSc, Computer Security and Communications at Télécom ParisMSc, Computer Security and Communications, MSc, Computer Security and Communications at EURECOMUS: MSc, Software Engineering, US: MSc, Software Engineering at International Technological University (ITU)MBA, IT Management, MBA, IT Management at Qafqaz Universiteti
English, Azerbaijani, Turkish, German, French, Russian
Github Skills (68)
distributive10
webinar10
catalog9
ux-design9
mesh9
kubernetes-operator9
scalable9
experiment9
visualization9
docker9
webassembly8
opa8
golang8
nginx-module8
cloud-native8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nginxinc/nginmesh
Sep 2017 - Jul 2018
Istio compatible service mesh using NGINX
Contributions:27 PRs, 199 pushes, 44 branches in 10 months
nginxmeshistioservicemeshkubernetes
goupaz/techbrains
Dec 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:28 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
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