Samiullah Mohammed
Senior Software Engineer at AWS
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarSamiullah Mohammed is a Senior Software Engineer with six years of experience building backend and DevOps solutions, currently based in Sunnyvale and working at AWS. He contributes to high-impact open-source infrastructure like the amazon-ssm-agent, where he led Linux domain-join support, DNS/auth improvements, and OS-specific connectivity fixes to make remote instance management more robust. Comfortable across cloud-native tooling and systems automation, he blends practical scripting with service-level thinking to solve cross-platform deployment challenges. Known for shipping reliable, security-conscious changes, he brings hands-on experience turning complex platform requirements into maintainable operational features.
6 years of coding experience
Github Skills (12)
sh10
linux10
bash10
script10
shell10
aws10
scripting10
user-authentication9
go9
authentication9
network-configuration9
devops8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
aws/amazon-ssm-agent
Mar 2020 - Oct 2022
An agent to enable remote management of your EC2 instances, on-premises servers, or virtual machines (VMs).
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 reviews, 26 commits, 34 comments in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Samiullah primarily contributed to the domain join functionality for the SSM agent, implementing and refining the underlying scripts. Their work included adding support for Linux domain join using the `aws:domainjoin` SSM API, addressing network connectivity issues on specific OS versions, and adding a new option for retaining instance hostnames. They also made improvements to the DNS configuration and authentication.
instancesecsec2vmsagent
aws/credentials-fetcher
Jun 2022 - Oct 2022
Credentials-fetcher is a Linux daemon that retrieves gMSA credentials from Active Directory over LDAP. It creates and refreshes kerberos tickets from gMSA credentials. Kerberos tickets can be used by containers to run apps/services that authenticate using Active Directory.
Contributions:3 releases, 146 reviews, 58 commits in 4 months
containersdaemonlinuxrefreshesldap
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