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

• 🚉 platforms and services for cloud-native telecom networks
• ☁️ Telco Cloud architecture, orchestration and management
• 🚀 CRDs and controllers for running telco/AI workloads on Kubernetes

🌱 I’m currently learning

• 🏃 advanced Go concepts for building custom K8s controllers

👯 I’m looking to collaborate on

• 🥊 tackling scalability, performance and obeservability challenges for Telco/AI servings on Kubernetes
• 🤝 opensource projects in the cloud-native ecosystem

Here are some of the projects that I have built or contributed to over the years.

🚨 Terraform State Rescuer

• Kubernetes operator to back up and rescue Terraform State stored in a Kubernetes cluster
• Technology Stack: Go, Kubernetes, kube-builder, Terraform, Docker

🌐 RSS Feed Scraper

• 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)

🚗 V2X Service in MEC Sandbox

• 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

🎬 VNF LCM API Emulator

• 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