Shaeq Ahmed
Co-Founder at Matano
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShaeq Ahmed is a founder and systems engineer with 10 years’ experience building petabyte-scale, cloud-native data platforms and open source security tooling. As Co-Founder of Matano he architects a security data lake for threat hunting, detection and response, combining deep backend and DevOps skills with practical experience shipping CI/CD and AWS integrations. Previously he helped build Amazon Scout’s data platform for autonomous robotics and has a strong background in large-scale data pipelines from roles at Duo Security and the University of Michigan. He routinely contributes low-level transformation logic and serialization work in Rust for Matano’s VRL pipeline, showing a comfort with both systems programming and distributed infrastructure. Based in Redmond, he blends entrepreneurial drive with a taste for novel, complex problems and an active interest in open source security communities.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Michigan College of EngineeringHigh School Diploma STEM, High School Diploma STEM at Stuyvesant High School
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Github Skills (16)
rust10
aws10
log-analysis10
analytics10
devops9
cloud-infrastructure9
infrastructure9
serverless8
cloud-native7
security-txt7
security-scan7
security7
aws-lambda6
websocket6
amazon-web-services6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
matanolabs/matano
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Open source security data lake for threat hunting, detection & response, and cybersecurity analytics at petabyte scale on AWS
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:25 reviews, 96 commits, 37 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Shaeq's commits primarily focus on the development and improvement of the VRL (Vector Rule Language) transformation logic. They modified and added code related to serializing Rust data structures into `JsValue` and implementing core functionalities of the VRL transformation pipeline. Moreover, the user was involved in configuring and setting up the CI/CD pipeline, along with other infrastructural changes and fixes for the deployments. The user also worked on integrating AWS MSK IAM authentication.
secopsdfirserverlessloggingcloud-security
matanolabs/logtest
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Build & test new Matano log sources locally using your IDE 🧑💻
Contributions:3 reviews, 17 commits, 2 PRs in 2 months
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