Hello World!

I'm Sina Pahlavan, a software engineer from Toronto, Canada. Currently, I'm a software engineer at Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution and a number of other open source products such as MAAS, Juju, and Charmed Kubernetes.

Here is what I'm currently up to and some of the things I've done!

Canonical Observability Stack (COS)
My role at Canonical is software engineer on the Observability team, where we engineer and maintain observability solutions for enterprise use. I contribute and maintain software operators which drive Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Grafana, Opentelemetry Collector, Alertmanager and some other observability related solutions on Kubernetes. The stack is deployable on Kubernetes using Juju, an open-source application modeling tool that automates the deployment, configuration, and management of complex software systems across clouds and machines. Juju deploys charms, which are software operators handling the operations of a workload such as Prometheus. My job invovles writing and maintaining these software operators and enabling integrations between different observability applications in the stack.
Grafana Prometheus Loki Tempo
Bloorsoft
I was previously a founding engineer at Bloorsoft, a startup which specializes in delivering fast, user focused solutions for startups. I worked on Engager, I engineered a social media marketing management tool for integrations with Linkedin, Medium, Reddit, and X. I created a full app for tracking and calculating carbon emissions for civil engineering companies using React in less than 30 days. Later, I developed a React-based AI add-in for MS Word to streamline grant writing (25-day delivery).
Grafana