Shuveb Hussain
Co-Founder At Unstract
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShuveb Hussain is a seasoned technology leader and founder with 11 years of experience building scalable, cloud-native platforms, AI/ML systems, and high-availability web services. As Co-Founder of Unstract and former VP of Engineering at Freshworks and Smartron, he has operated platform services that handle billions of requests and petabytes of data while owning product engineering from MVP to growth. He blends deep systems expertise—from container and virtualization internals to embedded Linux and network programming—with practical DevOps and cloud-neutral architecture. An active hands-on engineer, he implemented container internals in his popular "containers-the-hard-way" project, demonstrating low-level mastery beyond orchestration. Based in Chennai with a history of founding startups and shipping platform products, he pairs entrepreneurial instincts with a track record of building reliable, data-driven infrastructure. Colleagues know him for turning complex distributed systems challenges into operationally robust, product-focused solutions.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Jeevana MatriculationMadurai Kamaraj University
English, Hindi, Tamil
Github Skills (11)
docker10
go10
containerization10
dockers10
networking10
cgroups10
overlayfs9
system-administration9
bash8
githubaction-workflow5
github-ci5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
shuveb/containers-the-hard-way
May 2020 - Jan 2021
Learning about containers and how they work by creating them the hard way
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:33 commits, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Shuveb primarily focused on implementing features related to containerization and system-level operations. They developed core functionalities for creating and managing containers, including overlay filesystem mounting, network namespace setup, and cgroup configurations. The contributions extend to include the implementation of commands to manage and interact with the containers and network.
containerskubernetesdocker
shuveb/sparkler
Oct 2019 - Jan 2021
A virtual machine monitor and a tiny "operating system" to go with it. When you start Sparkler, it creates a virtual machine using Linux's KVM API. It is written in C and emulates a serial console and some other devices that fetch a tweet from an account, etc.
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
gokvmlinuxoperating-systemvirtual-machine
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