Syed Ahmad
Staff Developer Advocate
Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSyed Ahmad is a Staff Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs based in Nuremberg, Germany, with a strong background in cloud support and open-source community engineering. He leverages over a decade of hands-on experience across Linux, Kubernetes, Docker, and diverse data sources to troubleshoot complex production issues and translate user feedback into product improvements. As a DevRel he creates documentation, tutorials, webinars, and mentors colleagues while co-organizing community programs that grow contributor engagement. He has supported customers across Europe, the US and Japan, and uniquely blends deep support engineering experience with public speaking at international conferences. Outside work he channels curiosity into travel, family time and tech-adjacent hobbies like gaming and comics, which help him stay connected to diverse user perspectives.
5 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 1st Division, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 1st Division at Sir Syed University of Engineering & Technology (SSUET)Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Umeå Institute of Design
German, English, Urdu, Hindi, Swedish
Github Skills (49)
monitoring10
observability10
visualization10
dashboard10
mysql10
css10
grafana10
grafana-plugin10
visualize10
analytics10
tailwind10
google-sheets10
go10
prometheus10
business-intelligence10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
usmangt/usmangt
Oct 2021 - Aug 2024
Contributions:40 pushes in 2 years 10 months
usmangt/talks
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:84 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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