Ayrat Khayretdinov

Ayrat Khayretdinov is an App Mod and AI/ML Specialist at Google since November 2019, focusing on containers, serverless, and AI infrastructure. Ayrat serves as a Visiting Professor at McGill University and holds the position of CNCF Ambassador since January 2018, actively educating the Canadian DevOps community about Kubernetes and Cloud Native technologies. Ayrat has been an organizer for GDG Cloud Montreal & Ottawa and the CNCF and Kubernetes Meetup since 2018 and 2016, respectively. With a background as a Cloud Architect at CloudOps, Ayrat supported Kubernetes and Cloud Native technology implementations on major cloud platforms. Previous roles include OpenStack Engineer at Mirantis and System Integrator at Ericsson, where network management and deployment were key responsibilities. Ayrat earned a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Concordia University between 2007 and 2010.