Work History

I've been leading LinkedIn's compute cluster management team that builds the bespoke tools to manage our 500,000+ machine bare-metal server fleet running thousands of apps running on Kubernetes (watch our KubeCon'25 talk)! I worked at Twitter's Kubernetes infrastructure team and worked on API-driven clusters buildout in bare-metal datacenters. I worked at Google Cloud on developer experience of container-based compute platforms like GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine) and Cloud Run. Microsoft's first contributor to the Docker project, worked on Azure's Linux VM guest agent, Go SDK, Azure Container Registry and Azure Container Service.

You can find me on Twitter, LinkedIn, GitHub, or Bluesky.

Open source projects

In a past life, I have built software to help tens of thousands of developers around the world. Some projects I created in the open source ecosystem during that time:

And I love writing kubectl plugins that help me and my colleagues day to day:

Contact

Best way to get a hold of me is hello@ahmet.im.