Sako M

Software Engineer

San Francisco, California, United States15 yrs experience

AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Over 10 years of diverse engineering experience across 6 countries.
Expert in AI, Security, and Platform Engineering.
Strong background in Open Source and SaaS development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Security expert with a focus on AI-driven solutions.

Contact

Skills

Core Skills

SecurityDevops

Other Skills

artificial intelligenceOperating SystemsOpen-Source DevelopmentSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Software DevelopmentShell ScriptingGo (Programming Language)CybersecurityPython (Programming Language)LinuxAmazon Web Services (AWS)Cloud ComputingGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)Software ArchitectureContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

About

Engineer by passion, entrepreneur by mindset, and fitness enthusiast by discipline. Short version:  Believe: As long as we give more than we take, the best is yet to come.  Mission: Use my lifelong energy, time and skills to make people feel good.  Experience: 10+ years, 6 countries, 10 companies. 3 Masters in 3 countries.  Passion: AI, Security, Platform, Open Source, SaaS Long version: I believe as long as we give more than we take, the best is yet to come. My main goal is to use lifelong energy, time and skills to make people feel good by generating value for all creatures in our small world. Having diverse experience of 10+ years in 6 countries, working for 10+ small to large size companies while getting 3 MSc degrees in 3 countries. Currently working on platform engineering in cross section of AI, Security, Platform, Data specialities and obsessed with Open Source projects. Twitter: https://twitter.com/sakows

Experience

15 yrs

Total Experience

2 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Gladly

Sr. Software Engineer, Platform | Security

Jul 2021 – Feb 2026 · 4 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco, CA · Remote

 Security: Implement and maintain robust security infrastructure, ensuring data, application, and network security. Work with PCI DSS and SOC2 compliance frameworks.
 Reliability: Monitor and optimize techniques to consistently uphold system and service reliability, minimizing downtime and enhancing performance.
 Performance: Actively monitor and optimize the speed and efficiency of compute, network, and storage resources.
 Cost Optimization: Proactively monitor, manage, and optimize cloud resources to ensure cost-efficiency without compromising performance or reliability.
 Operational Excellence: Collaborate and communicate effectively with engineering teams to develop a streamlined GitOps workflow for CI/CD automation, enabling rapid and frequent product releases.
 Scalability: Design and manage elastic infrastructure and components, optimizing auto-scaling for efficient application growth in response to variable workloads.

SecurityDevOpsartificial intelligence

Opengov inc.

Platform | Infrastructure Security Lead

Sep 2018 – Jul 2021 · 2 yrs 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

 Building software and managing highly available sotware as a service
 Building Infrastructure for continuous integration, automated software releases, infrastructure automation
 Operating Kubernetes and Docker in production on a public cloud.
 Research of services that are foundational to the product architecture in terms of usage across multiple products
 Research for Security tooling of infrastructure and applications to be FedRAMP certification compliant

Nginx, inc.

Platform Engineer

Aug 2017 – Aug 2018 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

Kubernetes based cloud infrastructure development for Istio data plane NGINX as proxy:
 Container based microservices deployment
 Running in GCP cloud
 C, Rust,Go,Python development
 CI/CD Pipeline
 Monitoring

Fraunhofer iosb-ina

Industrial Cyber Security Researcher

Jun 2017 – Aug 2017 · 2 mos · Germany

Cyber Security Research for Industry 4.0:
 Develop POCs: Profinet SIEM, OPCUA SIEM
 Analysis of Securiy Standarts: ISO27001, IEC62443
 Develop Attack,Detection and Prevention Scenarios
 Security Testing of ICS embedded devices and systems
 Technologies: NodeJS, Python, Graylog, ElasticSearch, LXC, MongoDB, OPCUA Server & Client

Sap

Cyber Security Researcher

Aug 2016 – Feb 2017 · 6 mos · France

Threat Deception-Hacker aware application research&development:
 Break the attack process at all levels of the attack chain
 Deceive attackers and to increase their cost of attack
 Ensuring the normal flow of operations is not being disrupted
 Honeytoken application Development

Huawei technologies

2 roles

Service project manager

Aug 2014 – Sep 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo

 Responsible for 24x7 of 5 service providers network(Azercell, Bakcell, Azerfon, Azerconnect, Azertelecom)engineering teams management
 Weekly/Monthly Report to CxO customer levels
 Technical problems investigation,tracking,escalation with R&D, sales teams
 Interface for change request, complaint handling

System and Network Support Team Leader

Oct 2012 – Sep 2015 · 2 yrs 11 mos

 Smartcare CEM platform Operation&Maintenance Linux based servers,storage(design, install, integration, configuration,upgrade)
 Network Administration(switch,router,firewall,tap)
 Consulting and presales(customer training,Solution proposal: BOQ,RFP,Maintenance contract,HLD,LLD,PIP,PO,PR,PRP)
 Auditing(find bugs,misconfiguration,leaks, process improvement)
 Reporting/Training to project team

Zte corporation

Wireless/Core network support

Jun 2012 – Oct 2012 · 4 mos · Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan, Altel 4G network launch:
 Responsible: installation, interconnection, configuration,integration with 3rd parties, acceptance

Bakcell

Core Network Planning Team Leader

Aug 2009 – Jun 2012 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan, Bakcell mobile network maintenance & planning:
 Responsible: mutli-vendor network deployment including Cisco, Nokia, Juniper, Mctel, Huawei