- Building the future of connectivity at Starlink — the world's only global ISP, delivering internet to millions of people on every continent and ocean.
- Helping Scale the Starlink Network across 160+ countries.
hi, i'm siddharth kaza 👋
I'm a Computer Engineering graduate from the University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign. I love working with computer networks, distributed systems, and FOSS applications. These days I'm at SpaceX Starlink — the world's only global ISP (AS14593).
uplink established · AS14593
01 experience
- Automation, CDNs, and backbone networks.
- CX Datacenter — network automation.
- Intelligent Edge networking.
- Studied computer engineering with a focus on computer networks and distributed systems.
The HomeLab 🏠 self-hosted
- Manage a lab at home with gear from Cisco, HPE, Dell, and Arista — my personal testing ground for hands-on learning.
- Orchestrate it all with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and Ansible; observe it with Grafana and Prometheus.
- skaza.me runs entirely on this lab — zero cloud hosting.
02 interests
Computer Networks
Routing, switching, and everything in between — I like routing packets and enjoy knowing how they move even more. I am currently studying for my CCNP(and hopefully soon, a CCIE)
FOSS & Self-Hosting
Big believer in open source and owning your data. Daily driver of Immich, Uptime Kuma, and Proxmox.
HomeLabbing
A rack at home beats a certification course. Enterprise switches, hypervisors, Kubernetes clusters — break it, fix it, learn it, repeat.
Off the Clock
Traveling to new places, lifting heavy things, and working through a long queue of TV shows. Mostly ignoring all of that and hanging out with my friends though...