Summary
Taimoor Imtiaz is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 14 years of experience building cloud-native and embedded systems for Industry 4.0 and IoT. He has led architecture and systems engineering efforts at Intel—focusing on Kubernetes, OpenStack, StarlingX and real-time systems—and now heads technology for a cloud-native School Operating System in Karlsruhe. His background spans low-level embedded firmware and hardware bring-up to large-scale streaming analytics and cloud orchestration, enabling him to bridge edge constraints with scalable backend platforms. A hands-on engineer who teaches and learns new languages like Rust, he combines pragmatic product delivery with deep technical mentorship. He is also an advocate for renewable energy, reflecting an interest in sustainable technology solutions beyond pure software. Notably, his career includes building IoT gateways, ETL pipelines with Kafka/Spark, and applying side-channel research on SRAM PUFs—showing uncommon breadth from security research to production cloud services.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Technischen Universität Darmstadt
BE Electrical, BE Electrical at National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)
German, English