Shahbaz Nazir
Technical Engineering Manager at Stealth Startup
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolShahbaz Nazir is a Technical Engineering Manager based in Berlin with 11 years of experience building and operating distributed enterprise systems, cloud platforms, and automated release pipelines across private OpenStack and public AWS environments. He blends hands-on DevOps and SRE expertise—Kubernetes, Ansible, CI/CD and non-disruptive production upgrades—with product-focused ownership from design through deployment. His open-source contributions include infrastructure and core changes to BigchainDB, demonstrating deep familiarity with blockchain integrations, logging, and Kubernetes deployment automation. Having led reliability work at Tendermint/Ignite and SysEleven and architected upgrade paths and plugins at PLUMgrid, he is fluent at turning complex upgrade and migration challenges into repeatable, low-downtime processes. Notably, he pairs low-level systems engineering roots (electrical engineering background and early research projects) with pragmatic release management for high-stakes production environments.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering at Lahore University of Management Sciences
Punjabi, Urdu, English
Github Skills (17)
kubernetes10
back-end-development10
python10
tendermint10
bash10
blockchain10
kubernetes-pods10
backend10
devops10
dockers9
mongodb-database9
docker9
mongodb9
nginx9
apidoc8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
bigchaindb/bigchaindb
Sep 2017 - Sep 2018
Meet BigchainDB. The blockchain database.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 55 PRs, 71 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Shahbaz contributed to the project by implementing and improving the infrastructure and backend systems. They modified Kubernetes deployment configurations and scripts, as well as fixed an issue related to the nginx web proxy and authorization modes. In addition, the user made several changes to the core bigchaindb code base, including updates to transaction handling and genesis block initialization. They also streamlined logging and improved the integration with Tendermint, demonstrating a strong understanding of the project's architecture and deployment process.
bftpythonbigchaindbblockchaindecentralized
archway-network/relayer_exporter
Apr 2023 - Feb 2025
Prometheus exporter for ibc metrics
Contributions:2 releases, 18 reviews, 14 PRs in 1 year 10 months
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