Sana Jawad
Senior Director Of Software Engineering at Salesforce
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSana Jawad is a Senior Director of Software Engineering based in Redmond with a 16+ year career building cloud-native, large-scale distributed systems and platform engineering at Microsoft and Salesforce. She leads multi-geo teams that operate one of the industry’s largest Kubernetes fleets, delivering a substrate-agnostic, multi-tenant Kubernetes PaaS that enables developer agility and powers core Salesforce products. Hands-on across Go, Python, Terraform and Kubernetes ecosystems, she has driven reliability, observability, and health-mediated deployments while reducing operational toil at scale. Sana contributes to open source—most notably improving performance and stability in Salesforce’s Sloop Kubernetes history visualization—bringing production-hardened DevOps and backend expertise to community tools. Her background blends deep engineering (from network stacks and secure AWS integrations to platform orchestration) with a proven track record of turning complex cloud infrastructure into consumable developer platforms. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic, metrics-driven leader who balances long-term architectural vision with ship-ready execution.
6 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MS CS Computer Science, MS CS Computer Science at Lahore University of Management SciencesBS CS Computer Science, BS CS Computer Science at National University of Computer and Emerging SciencesHigh School Computer Science, High School Computer Science at Islamabad College For Girls
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Github Skills (9)
kubernetes10
go10
performance-optimization10
badger10
kubernetes-pods10
devops9
testing9
prometheus9
cicd8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
salesforce/sloop
Feb 2020 - Jul 2022
Kubernetes History Visualization
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 133 reviews, 24 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Sana primarily focused on improving the performance and reliability of the Kubernetes history visualization tool. Their contributions include fixing garbage collection issues that were causing disk space problems and OOM kills. They added metrics for better visibility, optimized the codebase by replacing DropPrefix with key deletion, and exposed more Badger options for memory utilization. The user also refactored code, incorporated comments, and added unit tests to improve the overall stability and maintainability of the project.
kuberneteschartvisualization
sana-jawad/sloop
Jan 2020 - Jul 2022
Kubernetes History Visualization
Contributions:23 pushes, 30 branches in 2 years 6 months
kuberneteschartvisualization
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