behdanisohrab@riseup.net
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Professional Summary
DevOps and platform-oriented Linux engineer with strong experience in designing and operating reliable, automated, and scalable infrastructure. Expertise in Linux distribution engineering, immutable systems, CI/CD pipelines, and release engineering. Proven ability to deliver production-grade solutions through open-source collaboration, automation, and infrastructure-as-code practices while supporting thousands to millions of users.
Skills
Systems & Infrastructure
GNU/Linux Internals • Networking • Systemd • Troubleshooting • Performance Tuning
DevOps & Automation
CI/CD Pipelines • Shell Scripting • Reproducible Builds • Infrastructure as Code • Automation
Containers & Cloud
Containerization • Orchestration • OCI Images • Docker • Kubernetes • Cloud-Native Practices
Packaging & Release Engineering
Linux Packaging • Image Composition • Atomic Updates • Rollback Strategies • Rolling Releases
Tools & Technologies
Linux • Docker • Kubernetes • Git • GitLab CI • Ansible • Prometheus • Bash • Python • Qt
Experience
Apadana
Software Infrastructure Engineer
Oct 2024 – Present — Part-time
- Designed and implemented an immutable GNU/Linux architecture based on Cloud-Native best practices, enabling atomic updates and reliable rollbacks.
- Defined secure image-based update mechanisms and deployment workflows, significantly improving system reproducibility and operational efficiency.
- Built base image composition pipelines and packaging processes to support consistent, scalable infrastructure deployments.
KDE
Translator
Mar 2023 – Present — Remote
- Make KDE more accessible to Persian (Farsi) Speaking People world-wide
Parch Linux
Software Engineer
Aug 2021 – Present — Part-time
- Architected and maintain a full GNU/Linux distribution serving thousands of users globally, with fully automated rolling-release model.
- Designed and operated CI-driven packaging and release pipelines that ensure stability, performance, and rapid delivery of updates.
- Developed and maintained custom kernel patches and low-level system components to optimize performance and hardware compatibility.
- Led complete installer redesign using Calamares, implementing automated partitioning, profile-based deployments, and first-boot automation with Qt framework.
- Authored RFCs and established formal contribution workflows, release policies, and infrastructure standards to improve team efficiency and project governance.
Education
Shahid Montazeri University of Mashhad
Associate Degree in Computer Networks — Expected 2027
Mashhad, Iran
- Networking fundamentals, operating systems, workstation and server administration