Summary
Sohail Ahmed is a Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer with a decade of experience building and operating scalable cloud infrastructure. Based in Oakland, California, he currently leads reliability initiatives at ForgeRock, translating complex production demands into resilient, observable systems. His career spans leadership roles at MuleSoft and hands-on engineering across startups, where he has shaped high-availability architectures, incident response, and automation across AWS, Docker, CoreOS, and Terraform. Sohail blends frontend and DevOps experience from early projects (React/Flux, HTML/CSS, Ruby, Go) with a strong backbone in cloud infrastructure, giving him a unique perspective on end-to-end systems. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech and has a track record of turning ambitious ideas into dependable software and infrastructure at scale. Outside of code, he stays engaged with innovative technologies in the SF Bay Area and the broader cloud ecosystem.
11 years of coding experience