Dewan Ahmed

Dewan Ahmed is a Principal Developer Advocate at Harness. Before joining Harness, he worked at IBM, Red Hat, and Aiven as a developer, QA lead, consultant, and developer advocate. For the last fourteen years, Dewan has worked to solve DevOps and infrastructure problems for small startups, large enterprises, and governments. Starting his public speaking at a toastmaster in 2016, he has been speaking at tech conferences and meetups for the last decade. His work is fueled by a passion for open-source and a deep respect for the tech community. Dewan writes about app/data infrastructure, developer advocacy, and his thoughts around a career in tech on his blog. Outside of work, he’s an advocate for underrepresented groups in tech and offers pro bono career coaching as his way of giving back.