Sako M
Staff Software Engineer at You.com
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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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 (51)
distributive10
webinar10
visualization9
kubernetes-operator9
scalable9
nginx9
experiment9
webassembly8
jekyll8
ux-design8
golang8
opa7
kubernetes7
infrastructure-as-code7
lightstep7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
goupaz/techbrains
Dec 2019 - Jan 2020
Bringing Open Source spirit to community culture
Contributions:28 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
goupaz/business_plan_template
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:17 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 day
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