Sarfaraz Ahmad
Senior Engineer at Chicago Trading Company
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolSarfaraz Ahmad is a Senior Linux and infrastructure engineer with around a decade of experience building and maintaining resilient platform services for trading and finance firms. He combines deep Linux administration, config-management (Puppet, Foreman, cloud-init), and monitoring expertise (Prometheus, Icinga2, Grafana) with practical SRE skills gained at Optiver and D. E. Shaw. Comfortable scripting in Python and Bash, he routinely glues complex systems together and has hands-on experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), KVM/libvirt, and image-based provisioning. His background also includes core network and security tooling—DNS/DHCP/NTPL, ELK for SIEM, Squid SSL interception and CCNA-level networking—making him effective at both operations and incident debugging. Based in Amsterdam, he’s an open-source-minded practitioner who favors pragmatic automation and observable, auditable infrastructure over one-off fixes.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Engineering at Jamia Millia Islamia
English, Hindi, Urdu, python
Github Skills (51)
security10
http-server10
extensible10
reverse-proxy9
caddy9
acme9
duplicate-detection9
http9
server9
golang9
privacy9
go9
webserver9
logging8
compression8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sarfarazahmad89/go-ssh-agent
Feb 2023 - Jun 2024
Golang's SSH agent exposed as executables for consumption on Windows/Linux
Contributions:1 release, 10 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 year 4 months
sarfarazahmad89/civirt
Feb 2019 - May 2022
A python package and few scripts to create virtual machines using nocloud isos and cloud disk images
Contributions:18 commits, 2 PRs, 11 pushes in 3 years 3 months
cloud-diskpythonvmsmachinesdisk
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