Sinan Awad
Director Of Software Engineering at Canonical
Sofia, Sofia-City, Bulgaria
Summary
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Top SchoolSinan Awad is a pragmatic software engineering leader with over two decades of experience building and scaling complex systems from embedded medical devices to cloud-native SaaS. Currently Director of Software Engineering at Canonical, he leads Juju and JAAS teams, blending open-source orchestration expertise with product-focused delivery. His background spans leadership roles at VMware, GE Healthcare, Quickbase and SolarEdge, where he ran large engineering organizations and led cross-functional R&D sites. Sinan is known for facilitating architectural decisions, coaching engineers, and prioritizing customer satisfaction alongside a healthy team culture. He combines deep hands-on technical knowledge (cloud, IoT, SaaS, orchestration) with a talent for turning ambitious visions into pragmatic, user-friendly solutions. Based in Sofia, he brings a rare mix of embedded-systems pedigree and cloud orchestration experience that informs robust, scalable product design.
6 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Computer Science, B.A. Computer Science at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Arabic, English, Hebrew, Bulgarian
Github Skills (39)
kubernetes10
lifecycle10
linux10
juju10
yaml10
golang10
k8s10
devops10
operator10
declarative9
operator-lifecycle-manager8
session-cookie8
windows8
desktop8
brackets8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sinanawad/juju
Jun 2024 - Aug 2024
Orchestration engine that enables the deployment, integration and lifecycle management of applications at any scale, on any infrastructure (Kubernetes or otherwise).
Contributions:6 pushes in 2 months
sinanawad/learn-cicd-starter
Dec 2024 - Jan 2025
The starter code for the "Learn CICD" course on Boot.dev
Contributions:17 PRs, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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