Summary
Salman Hooshmand is a Senior Software Engineer based in Ottawa with over a decade of hands-on experience bridging research-grade software engineering and production DevOps. He specializes in CI/CD, automation, and Kubernetes, holding certifications as a Scrum Master and CKAD, and has a proven record of modernizing deployment pipelines to enable team autonomy. His background includes academic research on crawling and session reconstruction for rich internet applications (PhD, uOttawa) and practical roles at Solace and Klipfolio, giving him a rare combination of deep systems understanding and pragmatic delivery skills. He also brings security-focused engineering experience from his GitHub persona as a DevOps Engineer and Security Analyst, often approaching automation with a security-first mindset.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Software Engineering at Bu-Ali Sina University
Master's Degree, Information Technology, Master's Degree, Information Technology at Iran University of Science and Technology
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at University of Ottawa