operational Chicago · Software Engineer
Building systems that stay up.
I'm Sharip Alikhanov — a software engineer at Salesforce working on cloud infrastructure, platform reliability, automation, and the distributed systems teams quietly depend on.
about
I build infrastructure that feels invisible when it works.
My work sits where software engineering, cloud infrastructure, observability, and developer productivity meet. I care about systems that are resilient, understandable, and genuinely easy for a team to operate under pressure.
I work across AWS and GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, and monitoring — with a steady bias toward removing operational complexity instead of quietly adding more of it.
stack
The tools I use to ship software — and keep it running.
- Cloud AWS · GCP · Cloud architecture
- Platform Kubernetes · Docker · NGINX
- Infrastructure Terraform · Terragrunt · Helm
- Reliability Datadog · CI/CD · Observability
- Backend Ruby on Rails · Elixir / Phoenix · PostgreSQL
- Web & APIs JavaScript · GraphQL · Bash
- Currently exploring Distributed systems · AI tooling · Developer experience