--- title: "Sabbir Ahmed, Founder | CloudGuys" description: "Sabbir Ahmed is the founder of CloudGuys. He works on microservices architecture and secure Kubernetes deployments, and builds the products CloudGuys ships: WalletD, Tollgate, Tele, Berth and nomus. He writes the posts on this blog." url: "https://cloudguys.io/authors/sabbir-ahmed" language: "en" image: "https://cloudguys.io/assets/og-image.png" --- AUTHOR # Sabbir Ahmed Founder, CloudGuys Sabbir Ahmed is the founder of CloudGuys. He works on microservices architecture and secure Kubernetes deployments, and builds the products CloudGuys ships: WalletD, Tollgate, Tele, Berth and nomus. He writes the posts on this blog. [github.com/by-sabbir](https://github.com/by-sabbir) · [hello@cloudguys.io](mailto:hello@cloudguys.io) ## Posts - [Muting Every App on macOS with Core Audio Process Taps](https://cloudguys.io/blog/mute-apps-macos-core-audio-process-taps) · Nov 13, 2026 - [Embed Video Calls in Your App: Sign a Token, Redeem an Invite, Join](https://cloudguys.io/blog/embed-video-calls-in-your-app) · Nov 11, 2026 - [Double-Entry Ledger Design for Wallets: Seven Invariants and How We Verify Them](https://cloudguys.io/blog/double-entry-ledger-design-wallet-invariants) · Nov 9, 2026 - [Kubernetes Dashboard Alternatives Compared (2026): Access, Control, AI and Cost](https://cloudguys.io/blog/kubernetes-dashboard-alternatives-compared-2026) · Oct 21, 2026 - [Kubernetes Dashboard Is Archived: What to Use Instead in 2026](https://cloudguys.io/blog/kubernetes-dashboard-archived-what-to-use-2026) · Oct 21, 2026 - [Migrate Off the Kubernetes Dashboard: A Step-by-Step Guide](https://cloudguys.io/blog/migrate-off-kubernetes-dashboard-step-by-step) · Oct 21, 2026 - [43 seconds to 8: what one trace of an AI analyst agent showed us](https://cloudguys.io/blog/43-seconds-to-8-reading-one-trace) · Oct 18, 2026 - [Count everything twice: the UNION that would have double counted a travel warehouse](https://cloudguys.io/blog/count-everything-twice-dedup-union) · Oct 18, 2026 - [Karpenter vs. Cluster Autoscaler vs. EKS Auto Mode: 2026 Costs and Latency Trade-offs](https://cloudguys.io/blog/karpenter-vs-cluster-autoscaler-eks-auto-mode-2026) · Oct 18, 2026 - [Six layers, one guarantee: the read-only role under an AI analyst's SQL guard](https://cloudguys.io/blog/six-layers-one-guarantee-sql-guard) · Oct 18, 2026 - [Fewer tools, better agent? What merging 18 tools into 15 did and did not buy](https://cloudguys.io/blog/ai-agent-tool-design-fewer-tools) · Oct 10, 2026 - [The eval scoring we got wrong, and what we did about it](https://cloudguys.io/blog/ai-eval-criteria-we-got-wrong) · Oct 10, 2026 - [Your dbt descriptions are your prompt](https://cloudguys.io/blog/dbt-descriptions-are-your-prompt) · Oct 10, 2026 - [How we test an AI SRE: a fake cluster, 17 scenarios, and no vibes](https://cloudguys.io/blog/how-we-test-an-ai-sre-kubernetes) · Oct 10, 2026 - [Which local model can investigate a Kubernetes cluster? Qwen3 to Qwen3.5, measured](https://cloudguys.io/blog/local-llm-kubernetes-ai-qwen3-to-qwen35) · Oct 10, 2026 - [Where a small local model still fails at SRE work: a taxonomy from 276 runs](https://cloudguys.io/blog/local-llm-sre-failure-modes) · Oct 10, 2026 - [Prompt injection in Kubernetes: what happened when events and pod names gave the AI orders](https://cloudguys.io/blog/prompt-injection-kubernetes-ai-assistant) · Oct 10, 2026 - [When the agent runs out of tool calls: two small fixes that mattered](https://cloudguys.io/blog/ai-agent-iteration-cap-final-answer-retry) · Oct 9, 2026 - [We are publishing our AI SRE evaluations: the scenarios, the results, and the mistakes](https://cloudguys.io/blog/berth-ai-sre-evaluation-open-data) · Oct 7, 2026 - [Fixing the AI SRE tool loop in Berth 0.5.0: 18 tools to 15, forced final answers, and what the numbers showed](https://cloudguys.io/blog/berth-v0-5-0-release-ai-sre-15-tools) · Oct 7, 2026 - [20 ms end to end: real-time audio in an AudioWorklet with zero-import WASM](https://cloudguys.io/blog/audioworklet-zero-import-wasm) · Sep 27, 2026 - [Honest evaluation: how we measured a music filter, and where it still fails](https://cloudguys.io/blog/honest-evaluation-music-filter) · Sep 27, 2026 - [One Rust engine, four hosts: browser, Android, macOS and Linux](https://cloudguys.io/blog/one-rust-engine-four-hosts) · Sep 27, 2026 - [Introducing Berth: A Self-Hosted Kubernetes Dashboard With a Read-Only AI SRE](https://cloudguys.io/blog/introducing-berth-self-hosted-kubernetes-dashboard-ai-sre) · Sep 16, 2026 - [Install a Kubernetes Dashboard with Helm: Token Auth, Ingress, and TLS](https://cloudguys.io/blog/install-kubernetes-dashboard-helm-token-auth-ingress-tls) · Sep 15, 2026 - [An AI SRE That Cannot Touch Your Cluster: How Berth's Read-Only Agent Works](https://cloudguys.io/blog/read-only-ai-sre-kubernetes-how-it-works) · Sep 14, 2026 - [PostgreSQL Migration Checklist: Cutover, Validation, and Rollback](https://cloudguys.io/blog/postgresql-migration-checklist-cutover-validation-rollback) · Sep 13, 2026 - [Canary Deployment With Istio](https://cloudguys.io/blog/canary-deployment-with-istio) · Jul 17, 2026 - [Real Client IP Behind Istio Ambient Gateway: Secure X-Forwarded-For in Go](https://cloudguys.io/blog/real-client-ip-behind-istio-ambient-gateway-secure-x-forwarded-for-in-go) · Jul 15, 2026 - [Managed DevOps vs. Hiring In-House: The Real 2026 Cost Comparison](https://cloudguys.io/blog/managed-devops-vs-hiring-in-house-the-real-2026-cost-comparison) · Jun 20, 2026 - [Heroku, Render & Vercel Alternatives for Scaling Startups (2026 Cost Guide)](https://cloudguys.io/blog/heroku-render-vercel-alternatives-for-scaling-startups-2026-cost-guide) · Jun 13, 2026 - [Harden WordPress with Cloudflare Free Plan Using Terraform](https://cloudguys.io/blog/harden-wordpress-with-cloudflare-free-plan-using-terraform) · May 13, 2026 - [CI/CD Guardrails: Preventing Friday Deployments](https://cloudguys.io/blog/cicd-guardrails-preventing-friday-deployments) · May 3, 2026 - [GitOps Best Practices: ArgoCD vs Flux in Production](https://cloudguys.io/blog/gitops-best-practices-argocd-flux) · May 3, 2026 - [Infrastructure as Code: 5 Best Practices for Scale](https://cloudguys.io/blog/infrastructure-as-code-5-best-practices-for-scale) · May 3, 2026 - [Run Ansible Playbook From Terraform: Provision and Configure EC2 in AWS](https://cloudguys.io/blog/run-ansible-playbook-from-terraform-provision-and-configure-ec2-in-aws) · May 3, 2026 - [Terraform State Management: Kill Local State](https://cloudguys.io/blog/terraform-state-management) · May 3, 2026 ## Structured data ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": [ "ProfessionalService", "Organization" ], "@id": "https://cloudguys.io/#organization", "name": "CloudGuys", "url": "https://cloudguys.io/", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://cloudguys.io/assets/logo.png", "width": 512, "height": 512 }, "image": "https://cloudguys.io/assets/og-image.png", "description": "Self-hosted software products, senior engineers embedded in client teams, and cloud security and architecture advisory across AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code.", "email": "hello@cloudguys.io", "founder": { "@type": "Person", "@id": "https://cloudguys.io/authors/sabbir-ahmed#person", "name": "Sabbir Ahmed", "url": "https://cloudguys.io/authors/sabbir-ahmed" }, "slogan": "Ship with confidence. 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