Saman Alvi
Engineering Manager, Cloud Platform PubSub
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSaman Alvi is an engineering manager focused on cloud messaging and platform reliability, currently leading the Cloud Platform PubSub team at Cash App after nearly a decade building distributed systems and developer tools. He combines hands-on engineering experience—from BOSH contributions at Pivotal/Cloud Foundry to backend and mobile work—with people leadership and cross-organizational delivery at scale. Saman has founded a cleantech startup and led product and technical teams, bringing an operator’s mindset to product design, security, and performance. Known for scaling teams and coordinating complex integrations, he thrives on mentoring engineers and turning open-source and platform investments into reliable production services. Based in Canada, he bridges startup grit and enterprise rigor to ship durable cloud infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Hon. B.Sc Computer Science - Software Engineering, Hon. B.Sc Computer Science - Software Engineering at University of Toronto
Github Skills (41)
asciidoctor9
updating9
spinnaker9
docker8
velocity8
podman8
segment8
driver8
kubeadm8
continuous-delivery8
continuous-deployment8
testing7
golang7
sql7
google-cloud7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
snalvi/snalvi.github.io
Sep 2020 - Jun 2022
Contributions:49 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
snalvi/spinnaker.github.io
Sep 2020 - Jan 2021
spinnaker documentation site
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
documentation-sitespinnaker
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