Zainab Alsaffar
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolZainab Alsaffar is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building and operating reliable systems, currently focused on SRE and platform reliability at Red Hat in Toronto. She progressed through roles from intern to senior engineer at Red Hat, combining hands-on systems administration with production-grade site reliability engineering. Her background includes an M.S. in Networking and Systems Administration from RIT and earlier operational roles in healthcare and education, giving her a pragmatic, service-oriented approach to infrastructure. Colleagues rely on her ability to bridge legacy operations and cloud-native practices while mentoring junior engineers. Notably, she transitioned from campus systems administration to enterprise SRE, demonstrating both technical depth and adaptability across environments.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Networking and Systems Administration (NSA), Master’s Degree Networking and Systems Administration (NSA) at Rochester Institute of TechnologyMahara Program ( Prince Mohammed Bin Fahd Program for Youth Development and WIPRO )Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at University of Dammam – College of Education in Jubail
Github Skills (16)
infrastructure-as-code10
network-configuration10
automation10
devops10
python10
ansible-role10
ssh10
ansible10
rest-api9
api9
docker8
operator8
bundle8
rest8
kubernetes6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
zanssa/iib-deployment
Mar 2021 - Apr 2021
Contributions:60 PRs, 63 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
zanssa/Ansible-WordPress-LEMP
May 2017 - Aug 2020
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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