# Baqir Zaidi

> FDE @ Chkk

Location: London, England, United Kingdom
Profile: https://flows.cv/baqir

## Work Experience
### Forward Deployed Engineer @ Chkk
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Chkk is the Agentic Upgrade Copilot for managing the lifecycle of Kubernetes, add-ons (Istio, Cilium,...), application services (Redis, Keycloak,...), and hundreds of open-source projects. By automating changelog triage, dependency mapping, and compatibility verification, Chkk reduces weeks or months of labor-intensive, error-prone work to just a few guided clicks—making upgrades easy, safe, and compliant.

Chkk frees expert engineers from the endless cycle of upgrades. It enables teams to delegate and parallelize tasks more effectively by standardizing workflows, simplifying reuse, and promoting knowledge sharing.

Enterprises across financial services, healthcare, media, and other industries use Chkk to cut upgrade preparation time by 80%, avoid 500% Extended Support fees for EKS, GKE, and AKS, and prevent accidental forced upgrades. They rely on Chkk to upgrade smoothly—eliminating disruptions and last-minute scrambles.

Chkk supports both cloud and on-prem Kubernetes environments, including EKS, GKE, AKS, VMware Tanzu, OpenShift, Rancher, Nutanix, and other distributions. It integrates seamlessly with existing tools, workflows, and management platforms, scaling across your entire fleet to give you the confidence to upgrade safely.

Chkk is backed by Sequoia Capital and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA. Learn more at: https://www.chkk.io/ | https://docs.chkk.io/

### Software Engineer @ Various Companies
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | London Area, United Kingdom
Over this period, I gained broad technical experience across software, security and platform engineering roles. My work spanned building applications, securing systems, and enhancing infrastructure to support scalable, reliable platforms.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Southampton


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sm-baqir-zaidi
- Website: https://github.com/SMBaqirZ

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Last updated: 2026-04-05