# Javeria K.

> Staff Software Engineer @ Snowflake

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/javeria

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Snowflake
Jan 2023 – Present | Menlo Park, California, United States
Platform and Infrastructure Engineering.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Snowflake
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023

### Senior Site Reliability Engineer @ Palo Alto Networks
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
Lead the on-premises Kubernetes microservices infrastructure at PANW, with special focus on:
- Building, maintaining, scaling 40+ production/staging clusters. (bare-metal, on-prem, ansible, kubespray, weave-net, calico bgp)

Also building supporting infra for these k8s environments:
- GCP, CI/CD, GitOps/ Dev Productivity, Logging, Monitoring, Provisioning, Config Management
- Helping dev & infra team design large scale distributed applications with a focus on reliability, automation, operability and performance.

### Senior Systems Engineer @ Branch
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Palo Alto, California
Our team built a multi-region AWS cloud infrastructure that powered Branch's business, and handled billions of transactions, events and TBs of data, per day. 
My areas of focus were:

- Building, maintaining and scaling multiple production Kubernetes clusters on AWS. (kops)
- Multi-tenant multi-region AWS infrastructures, storage systems and content delivery networks.
- CI/CD Build & Release automation on AWS, containers, orchestration systems, EC2, serverless; build pipelines (Jenkins, CircleCI etc). 
- Infrastructure automation for containers, security, networking, and cloud-based delivery models.
- Architecting, developing and maintaining production-grade systems systems such as Kafka, Kubernetes, Redis and Postgres.
- Operations automation (Salt/Puppet/Ansible/Terraform, Fabric, Linux, etc).
- High-volume deployments (JVM, Nginx/HAProxy, ELBs, CDN etc).
- Logging & monitoring (PagerDuty, Cloudwatch/CloudTrail, ELK, Prometheus/Grafana).
- Providing on-call support, ensuring the production system is healthy 24/7.

### Member of Technical Staff @ PLUMgrid Inc. (Acquired by VMware)
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | Santa Clara, CA
Technical lead for the cloud integrations & packaging team, responsible for integrating the core (SDN) networking plugin into Rackspace/OSA, Mirantis, RedHat OSP and Canonical OpenStack distributions. Used the following tools & platforms:
      - Ansible, Puppet, Python, Bash for bare metal, virtualized and Google Cloud environments,
      - Vagrant, VirtualBox, Libvirt, Linux Containers (LXC), 
      - Ubuntu, CentOS, deb/rpm, mirror scripting
      - SDN, DevOps deployment automation, OpenStack neutron networking

My experience consisted mainly of:
- Architecting deployments for cloud and container/docker based frameworks
- Opensource contribution for openstack-ansible, fuel-plugin communities
- Development & maintenance for our opensource code (plumgrid-ansible playbooks, plumgrid fuel plugin)
- Developing an automated test infrastructure that ran our deployments with openstack modules, and solution testing pipelines that ran on jenkins CI for internal code commits
- Technical Documentation with Latex, Sphinx: Release Notes, User Guides, Architecture Guides, Training Material Internal + Outbound


## Education
### Masters of Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Imperial College London


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/javeria-khan
- GitHub: https://github.com/JaveriaK

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Last updated: 2026-04-12