My name is Hammad and I am passionate about
- ☸️ Kubernetes and all things cloud native
- 📐 system design and architecture, and systems engineering ⚙
- 🙌 open source development
🔭 I’m currently working on
- ☁️ STACKIT Cloud's managed Kubernetes offering (SKE)
- 🚀 Enhancing the core engine of SKE (Gardener) with new features and use cases
🌱 I’m currently learning
- 🏃 advanced Go concepts for building custom K8s controllers that run production-grade managed K8s
👯 I’m looking to collaborate on
- 🥊 tackling scalability, performance and obeservability challenges for managed K8s when serving different use cases, e.g., AI serving
- 🤝 opensource projects in the cloud-native ecosystem
Here are some of the projects that I have built or contributed to over the years.
- Kubernetes operator to back up and rescue Terraform State stored in a Kubernetes cluster
- Technology Stack: Go, Kubernetes, kube-builder, Terraform, Docker
- Backend service for collecting posts from multiple RSS feeds
- Technology Stack: Go, PostgreSQL, REST, Docker
🔒 Privacy-enhanced data analytics
- Distributed orchestration of 5G data analytics services across multi-cloud Kubernetes clusters as per data usage policies
- Technology Stack: Python, Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform (GKE)
- Integration of standard MEC V2X (vehicle to everything) service in a cloud-native, microservices based emulator “AdvantEDGE”
- Technology Stack: Go, Kubernetes, Helm, Prometheus, Grafana, React
- Full-stack web application providing emulation of standard VNF LCM operations
- Technology Stack: Python, Flask, MongoDB, Docker, REST, Swagger UI
🐟 Redfish Interface API Emulator
- Contributed to the emulation of /Systems endpoint of Redfish API
- Technology Stack: Python, HTTP, REST
🏅 NFV API Conformance Test Suite
- Contributed to the development and maintenance of the conformance test suite for NFV APIs
- Technology Stack: Robot Framework, Python, HTTP, REST, JSON


