Available for senior AI & platform engineering leadership roles

I build the systems
that build the systems.

Sr. Director of AI Engineering · DevSecOps · Agentic AI · Dallas, TX

⚡ Ex Co-Founder & CTO 🏆 US Patent Holder 🎓 MBA · UC Irvine

15+ years leading DevOps platforms at scale, and most recently shipping production Agentic AI — a multi-skill agent for Terraform automation that runs 3–5× faster than ChatGPT and Claude on identical tasks.

Adnan Khan
3–5×
Faster than ChatGPT & Claude on Terraform tasks — benchmarked, DuploCloud agent
1,000+
Deploys per day on the hybrid CI/CD platform built at Fabletics
$1M+
Annual cloud savings through AWS optimization & architectural refactoring
2 → 15+
Scaled the Fabletics DevOps org supporting 4 distinct brands
99.999%
SLA for Verizon, Amazon, and Sprint — 22-person DevOps/NOC org
#7,924,881
US Patent — UDP data corruption solution for IP networking
Open Source

Multi-agent AI, for DevOps.

Two production-grade multi-agent systems, built in the open, MIT licensed. One responds to pipeline failures in real time. The other learns from them afterwards. Click either demo — no signup, no API key.

ops-pilot demo — AI agents triaging a CI failure

ops-pilot

PythonMITClaude

Autonomous CI/CD incident response — AI agents that triage failures and open fix PRs while you sleep.

Four coordinated agents (Watcher → Diagnoser → Fixer → Notifier) compress the typical 30–90 minute 2 AM triage cycle into minutes. Detects the failure, pulls logs, diagnoses root cause with Claude, commits a fix to a branch, opens a draft PR, and notifies the team on Slack. Docker Compose ready; dry-run mode for safe onboarding.

retro-pilot demo — hierarchical post-mortem pipeline

🧠 retro-pilot

PythonMITChromaDBLLM-as-judge

Autonomous incident post-mortem engine — reconstructs timelines, runs RCA, builds a learning knowledge base.

Hierarchical multi-agent system: an Orchestrator coordinates six specialists (evidence, timeline, RCA, action items, writer, evaluator). Every draft is scored by an LLM-as-judge against a 5-dimension rubric — low scores trigger a revision loop, bounded to 3 cycles to prevent runaway. Approved post-mortems are embedded and stored in ChromaDB so future incidents learn from past ones. Typed Pydantic contracts between every agent boundary.

Press & Recognition

In the news.

GDT · Press Release June 20, 2018

Dallas Technology Integrator GDT Names Adnan Khan Director of Cloud and DevOps

"We're excited to welcome Adnan to GDT's team of talented, forward-thinking IT engineers and professionals." — Brad Davenport, VP of Solutions Engineering, GDT
Read the full announcement ↗
Writing

Published on LinkedIn.

Deep-dives on the AI systems I've built — architecture, tradeoffs, and what the future of DevOps looks like when agents do the mechanical work.

Track Record

Selected experience.

Sr. Director of Engineering (AI) @ DuploCloud

Nov 2025 – Mar 2026

Remote · Recruited directly by the CEO to build the Agentic AI practice from zero

  • Shipped a production multi-skill Agentic AI platform in 5 months: engineers submit Terraform tasks via UI → async queue (NATS JetStream) → 11 specialized orchestrated skills → validated GitHub PR, end-to-end in under 10 minutes.
  • 3–5× faster than ChatGPT and Claude on identical Terraform tasks, benchmarked.
  • Architecture: stateful Kubernetes containers with PVC/EFS persistence, NATS/SSE real-time event streaming, cloud-agnostic (AWS/GCP/Azure), extensible to multiple agents.
  • Optimized LLM cost & latency via prompt caching, turn minimization, smart repo context compression, and tight per-skill specialization.

Director of DevOps @ Fabletics

Feb 2020 – Nov 2025

Dallas, TX · Promoted Manager → Sr. Manager → Director

  • Built the DevOps team from 2 to 15+ engineers supporting 4 brands (Fabletics, FabKids, Savage X Fenty, TechStyle).
  • Architected hybrid on-prem + AWS CI/CD platform from scratch — 1,000+ deployments/day.
  • $1M+ annual cloud savings through AWS optimization without impacting reliability.
  • Led full Kubernetes buildout and containerization; established DevSecOps standards org-wide (OWASP, Aqua, compliance automation).

Engineering Manager, DevOps @ cxLoyalty

Jan 2019 – Feb 2020

Plano, TX

  • 40 minutes → one click — end-to-end CI/CD (Jenkins, Helm, Nginx Ingress, EKS). Adopted as company gold standard.
  • Shared pipeline library integrated with 30+ Spring Boot microservices.
  • Istio service mesh, PCI-grade OWASP/Aqua scanning, secure Terraform/Terragrunt IaC.

Director, Hybrid Cloud & DevOps @ GDT

May 2018 – Dec 2018

Dallas, TX · Announced via company press release ↗

  • $350K+ revenue in first 6 months — turned DevOps group from cost center to revenue generator.
  • Evangelized cloud/DevOps services to 100+ hardware sales managers across 400+ existing customers.

Sr. Operations Manager, DevOps & NOC @ Comtech Telecommunications

Oct 2014 – Jan 2018

Orange County, CA

  • 99.999% SLA for Verizon, Amazon, and Sprint. Led 22-person DevOps and NOC org.
  • Drove CI/CD transformation from siloed manual deployments to self-service pipelines.

Co-Founder & CTO @ SalesIntel, Inc.

Jun 2014 – Mar 2015

Orange County, CA

  • Architected and built a multi-tenant SaaS platform from scratch: PHP/Slim, PostgreSQL, Lucene/Solr, AWS (S3, SQS).
  • 2 million dynamically generated SEO pages driving organic traffic.

Sr. Software Engineering Manager @ Smith Micro Software

Jan 2008 – May 2014

Orange County, CA

  • Led a distributed team of 14+ engineers across US, Canada, Serbia, Korea, China.
  • Delivered wireless communication software for Verizon and major OEMs (Samsung, LG, Motorola, HTC).
  • Worked directly with Intel and Google on mobile communication software for Chrome OS.
Toolkit

Core skills.

AI & Agents

Agentic AI · Multi-Agent Orchestration · LLM-as-Judge · Prompt Engineering · Prompt Caching · Claude (Bedrock) · ChromaDB / Vector Stores · Pydantic · Python

DevOps & IaC

Terraform · Terragrunt · Kubernetes · Helm · CI/CD · Jenkins · GitHub Actions · Docker

Cloud & Infra

AWS · Hybrid Cloud · EKS · EFS · NATS JetStream · SSE · DevSecOps · OWASP · SRE

Leadership

Team building (2 → 15+) · 0 → 1 platform builds · Cross-functional leadership · Hiring & mentoring

Credentials

Education & recognition.

Let's Talk

Get in touch.

I'm open to senior AI engineering, platform engineering, and DevOps leadership roles — remote, or hybrid in the Dallas, TX area.