hi — I'm Taha, I keep large-scale systems reliable.
🔥 Site Reliability Engineer. 🎓 I have a Doctorate in distributed systems & security, and I used to lecture. I build Observer (opens in a new tab), Cardinal and Storeity For fun.
Craft
Built for fun
Research
- Bearicade: Secure Access Gateway to High Performance Computing SystemsIEEE TrustCom 2020 (opens in a new tab)
- Inspiring the Next Generation of HPC Engineers with Reconfigurable, Multi-Tenant ResourcesSustainability 13(21), 2021 (opens in a new tab)
- Rapid Deployment of Bare-Metal and In-Container HPC Clusters Using OpenHPC PlaybooksSupercomputing (SC), Dallas, 2018 (opens in a new tab)
- The rest is on Google Scholarscholar.google.com (opens in a new tab)
Writing
- Earn your complexityWhen a sophisticated answer costs nothing to generate, the scarce skill is knowing which one you need.2 min
- The bill is a cardinality problem, not an observability problemWhat monitoring costs is set less by how much you watch than by how many combinations you ask it to count.5 min
Career
- 2025 —Principal SRERed Bull RacingRed Bull Racing
- 2024 – 25Lead SRERed Bull RacingRed Bull Racing
- 2021 – 24Platforms EngineerRed Bull RacingRed Bull Racing
- 2020 – 21Faculty ExpertGoogle CloudGoogle Cloud
- 2017 – 21HPC AdministratorUniversity of HuddersfieldUniversity of Huddersfield
- 2017 – 18Web DeveloperHSUHSU
- Before that, academia: teaching, research and a doctorate.
- 2018 – 21Lecturer, Module LeaderStudy Group, University of HuddersfieldStudy Group, University of Huddersfield
- 2017 – 20LecturerUniversity of HuddersfieldUniversity of Huddersfield
- 2017 – 21PhD, Distributed Systems & SecurityUniversity of HuddersfieldUniversity of Huddersfield
Say hello
Pager storm, failing platform, or a role worth talking about:
taha@ta3.devgithub (opens in a new tab)linkedin (opens in a new tab)scholar (opens in a new tab)