Farhad Shahbazi

As the CTO of Spherical Elephant, I am responsible for the technological advancement and choices of the company, weighing in on practicability and viability on a project and customer basis. With my team I manage internal and customer infrastructure and train engineers at customer sites in areas of infrastructure, DevOps and technical process-management.

In an environment of an emerging startup that required a flexible and scalable infrastructure, there was one big team consisting entirely of engineers in the company. As part of that team we worked together on the whole stack of the infrastructure, software development and project management.

At Ixolit I was part of a small team that managed large infrastructures for clients ranging among the top 300 most visited websites worldwide. With configuration management as one of our most important tools, we were able to manage numerous servers with just a few people.

My responsibility at DiTech was to maintain internal services and to develop various smaller software projects.

At UPC I worked as a member of the server housing and network monitoring department. My responsibilities included maintaining internal services and designing a new system to monitor and display the availability and performance of DSL connections for customers in both the Swiss and Austrian network operations centres.