Zaid Fakhruddin

I’m a platform engineer focused on Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, GPU infrastructure, and LLM inference.

At Yum! Brands, I built and operated Kubernetes edge compute infrastructure supporting digital services used by millions of customers. My work spanned platform engineering, infrastructure automation, and application delivery. I also deployed real-time ML inference infrastructure for customer recommendations.

At Bowman, I build Azure infrastructure for geospatial ML workloads and profile workloads on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs for capacity planning.

Outside of work, I enjoy being involved in the open-source community. I’ve had a fix merged into llm-d and spoke at PlatformCon 2026 about productizing shared GPU infrastructure on Kubernetes.