Meysam Azad - Site Reliability Engineer

Work Experience

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Licenseware

2021 - Present

Remote, Romania • Software & IT Asset Management

Led the successful migration from AWS cloud provider to Azure in a scheduled maintenance window and improved the platform performance by double.
Led the successful adoption of Kubernetes through automation and GitOps with the tech stack of Terraform, Ansible & FluxCD.
Set up monitoring, logging, and tracing for all the workloads with Prometheus, Loki, and OpenTelemetry, and prepare the SLO with the development team and business stakeholders' collaboration.

Backend Developer | Python

Arman Creative Solutions

2020 - 2021

Tehran, Iran • Social Networking

Integrated a new publishing app with a social awareness platform, enabling brand interaction and unified comment engagement.
Maintained the successful social awareness platform written in Python with a team of genius & dedicated engineers.

Site Reliability Engineer

Amer Andish Hooshmand

2018 - 2020

Tehran, Iran • Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence

Optimized product delivery for a team of ML engineers using CI/CD pipelines, developer tools, and robust monitoring.
Successfully deployed self-managed HAProxy for load-balancing and fault-tolerance across different deployment regions.

Backend Developer | Erlang

Bisphone Co.

2017 - 2018

Tehran, Iran • Social Networking

Enhanced real-time messaging, maintaining a low-latency messaging platform on top of gRPC/Protobuf and high-performance Erlang backend.
Kept a minimal IDE setup using Emacs & Tmux and kept the entire development process to the Linux terminal.

Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Cilium

GitOps, FluxCD

Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Alertmanager

Loki, Promtail

Grafana, SLI, SLO

Infrastructure as Code, Ansible, Terraform

Linux, Bash, Git

Rust, Golang, Python

Automation, CI/CD, GitHub Actions

AWS, CloudFormation

Tracing, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger

SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL

NoSQL, MongoDB

TDD, Unit, Integration & Performance Testing

Blue/Green, Canary, A/B Testing

Networking, DNS, TCP/IP

Load Balancer, Reverse Proxy, HAProxy, Nginx

Ory Products: Kratos, Oathkeeper, Keto, Hydra

JSON, GraphQL, gRPC/Protobuf

Redis

RabbitMQ