Adnan Nikhil Khan

Overview

22 years in software engineering, the last 4 at Denholm Technologies, where I lead the developer platform team. Wrote the Kubernetes service that now handles 5 million requests a day. Before that: Ryanair and Microsoft. Most at home with Bazel and Backstage. Learning to draw.

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Experience

1. Director of Engineering

   May 2022 - Present
   Denholm Technologies · 4 yr 5 mo · Full-time · London, UK
   • Shipped 6 launches on the developer platform team without a rollback.
   • Mentored 6 engineers through their first promotion.
2. Staff Platform Engineer

   Jun 2018 - Feb 2022
   Ryanair · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · London, UK
   • Built the experimentation framework 13 product teams use to ship changes safely.
3. Principal Engineer

   Jul 2015 - Jun 2018
   Microsoft · 2 yr 11 mo · Contract · London, UK
   • Sit on 3 boards.
   • Backed 36 founders at pre-seed and seed.
4. Senior Platform Engineer

   Apr 2014 - Jul 2015
   NatWest · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · London, UK
   • Reduced cloud spend on developer platform by 21% in two quarters.
   • Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 657ms to 69ms.
5. Senior Platform Engineer

   Mar 2012 - Apr 2014
   Arm · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · London, UK
   • Reduced cloud spend on developer platform by 29% in two quarters.
   • Shipped 19 launches on the developer platform team without a rollback.

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Education

1. University of Warwick

   BSc, Mathematics
   2000 - 2003