Syed Ahsan
Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Rivian
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSyed Ahsan is a Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer based in the Los Angeles area with over a decade of hands-on experience architecting and operating cloud-native platforms using Kubernetes, Terraform, and major public clouds. He has driven cloud transformation and SRE practices at scale for customers and enterprises, most recently at Rivian/Volkswagen Group Technologies after a multi-year tenure as a senior cloud architect at SADA focused on Google Cloud migrations and service mesh. His background includes deep contributions to OpenStack and cloud research from his time at Intel and UTSA, blending systems-level engineering in Go and Python with production-grade infrastructure automation. Known for turning monoliths into resilient microservices and for pragmatic IaC design, he pairs production reliability with developer ergonomics. An unusual strength is his long arc from early OpenStack contributor to modern cloud platforms, giving him both historical perspective and practical expertise in evolving cloud ecosystems.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of Texas at San AntonioBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering at NED University of Engineering and Technology
Github Skills (55)
gcloud9
google-cloud8
google-cloud-platform8
placement7
kubernetes-deployment7
appengine7
opendev6
openstack6
linux6
specfile6
gcp6
upstream6
devops5
terraform5
policies5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ahsan518/cluster-toolkit
Jan 2025 - Feb 2025
Cluster Toolkit is an open-source software offered by Google Cloud which makes it easy for customers to deploy AI/ML and HPC environments on Google Cloud.
Contributions:38 pushes in 15 days
ahsan518/PoC
Feb 2025 - Feb 2025
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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