Zain Asgar
Co-Founder CEO at Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZain Asgar is a serial founder and engineering leader with 13 years of experience building high-performance systems at the intersection of AI, cloud-native infrastructure, and data engineering. As Co-Founder & CEO of Gimlet Labs and formerly Pixie (acquired by New Relic), he has pushed observability and automated kernel/agent tooling for distributed systems while serving in governance at CNCF and teaching ML on edge systems at Stanford. His background spans hands-on systems work from GPU architecture and RTL to large-scale data engines (Hadoop, Spark, Trifacta’s Photon) and production ML, combining deep hardware understanding with practical software delivery. Based in San Francisco, he blends academic rigor (Stanford PhD research) with startup execution, and is known for turning research prototypes into deployable infrastructure like Pixie and kforge.ai.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical and Computer Engineering, BS Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of MinnesotaPhD Electrical Engineering, PhD Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
Github Skills (65)
opensearch10
python10
vega10
ebpf10
ruby10
apache-arrow10
cpp10
cloud-native10
monitoring10
pandas10
golang10
developer-tools10
scalable10
grpc10
kubernetes10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
pixie-io/px.dev
Apr 2021 - May 2022
Contributions:9 reviews, 9 commits, 17 PRs in 1 year
pixie-io/ELFIO
Sep 2021 - Dec 2022
ELFIO - ELF (Executable and Linkable Format) reader and producer implemented as a header only C++ library
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
cpppe-fileheaderc-libraryc-plus-plus
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