Shervin Khastoo
Senior Software Engineer at Airbnb
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolShervin Khastoo is a Senior Software Engineer based in Seattle with 11 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and scalable full‑stack systems. He holds a Master’s in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo and blends deep systems knowledge (Linux, networking, container lifecycle) with hands-on backend, frontend, and database design. At Google he led an 8‑engineer team to rework GKE for multi‑tenancy and sovereign clouds, delivering up to 20x faster startups and opening new markets, and now focuses on container lifecycle at Airbnb. His background spans high‑scale messaging (Elixir/Cassandra) to modernizing microservices and migration efforts, showing a knack for performance tuning and pragmatic platform design. Colleagues rely on him for technical leadership through complex migrations and on‑call incident response, and he often pairs research‑grade thinking from academia with production engineering discipline.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering at Sharif University of TechnologyInformatics Olympiad, Informatics Olympiad at Young Scholars Club (YSC)Highschool Diploma Pre-university General Highschool Informatics Olympiad, Highschool Diploma Pre-university General Highschool Informatics Olympiad at ATCCEMaster's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, Persian
Github Skills (47)
google-cloud8
dashboard8
google-cloud-platform8
visual-editor8
monitoring8
mysql8
bootstrap8
visualization7
terraform-provider7
analytics7
terraform7
cloud-platform7
google7
prometheus7
python7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
shervinkh/telegram-bot
Nov 2014 - Jul 2015
Contributions:31 commits, 8 pushes in 8 months
shervinkh/ikev2-docker
Mar 2017 - Sep 2019
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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