I'm the tech lead for LinkedIn's the Kubernetes infrastructure and cluster management group. My team builds bespoke tools and APIs that manages LinkedIn's large compute fleet on-premises. I worked at Twitter's Kubernetes infrastructure team and worked on API-driven clusters buildout in bare-metal datacenters. I left in solidarity. I was a software engineer at Google Cloud, working on developer experience of container-based platforms like GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine) and Cloud Run. I worked at Microsoft Azure primarily on open source ecosystem. I was Microsoft's first contributor to Docker project, and worked on projects like Azure Go SDK, Azure Container Registry.

You can find me more active on platforms like Bluesky, Twitter, or GitHub.

Recent on my blog

Notes on OpenAI Kubernetes outage Tale of a Kubernetes node-feature-discovery incident Kubernetes CRD generation pitfalls Why Kubernetes secrets take so long to update? Pitfalls reloading files from Kubernetes Secret & ConfigMap volumes Did we market Knative wrong? Serving gRPC+HTTP/2 from the same Cloud Run container My review of the System Design book Deploying to Cloud Run with Go Introducing runsd: Service discovery for Cloud Run

Open source projects

I have built open source projects that help tens of thousands of developers around the world. Some examples from my GitHub profile:

I worked for Microsoft Azure from 2012 to 2016. I delivered various open source projects for supporting the Linux ecosystem on Azure compute platform.

During my time at Microsoft, I have started and shipped projects like:

I am also the designer of the Microsoft employee badges in use today.

Contact

Please reach me out at hello@ahmet.im.