Salim Badakhchani
Platform Engineering - Technical Consultant
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSalim Badakhchani is a Director and seasoned platform engineer with 11+ years of experience building reliable, developer-focused infrastructure across telecommunications, banking and automotive sectors from London. He has led platform transformations and SRE initiatives at organisations including Apple, Volvo Cars, RBS and Ziglu, and earned an IBM Create award for deploying secure local-LLM powered IDPs and the AIXCL project. Comfortable from low-level embedded Linux and eBPF diagnostics to large-scale Kubernetes, Helm and CI/CD automation, he focuses on developer experience, observability and secure AI governance. A hands-on consultant and founder of Xenith Consulting, he also operates at the intersection of crypto ops and cloud-native tooling—having defined Lightning Network operational frameworks and automated secure node deployments. Known for breaking things to learn how they work, he is an active open-source contributor and long-time Linux enthusiast who turns complex platforms into production-ready developer platforms.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Technology Management, BSc, Technology Management at London South Bank University
English, iranian languages
Stackoverflow
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5kreached
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Github Skills (117)
continuous-integration10
openshift10
llamacpp10
devops10
monitoring9
continuous-delivery9
ansible9
ollama9
fabric9
openshift-origin9
paas9
homeserver9
agentic9
docker9
jenkins9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
xencon/csrgo
Oct 2019 - May 2024
Critical Systems Reconciliation with Go
Contributions:5 PRs, 29 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 7 months
go
sbadakhc/helloworld
May 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:649 pushes, 291 tags in 2 years 3 months
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