Dubai, United Arab Emirates
With over a decade of engineering experience, I specialize in building "boring" infrastructure systems that are secure, scalable and cost-efficient. I bridge the gap between Development, Security and Operations to deliver resilient Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) for global enterprises and high-growth startups. My Core Value Proposition: 🚀 High-Scale Engineering: Architected and managed production environments supporting 2M+ Daily Active Users (Gaming & Fintech) ensuring 99.99% uptime through robust SRE practices. 💰 FinOps & Cost Optimization: I don't just provision resources; I optimize them. Proven track record of reducing cloud spend by 20-35% (saving $10k+/month) through spot instances, auto-scaling and architecture rightsizing on AWS and Azure. 🛡️ DevSecOps & Compliance: Expert in shifting security left. I implement Policy-as-Code (Azure Policy, Sentinel) and Secret Management (Vault) to achieve SOC2 and ISO compliance standards. Technical Arsenal: - Cloud: Multi-cloud Architect (AWS & Azure). - Containerization: Kubernetes (AKS/EKS), Helm, Docker. - IaC: Advanced Terraform (Module Development) & Ansible. - Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Datadog. I am passionate about automating toil and building self-healing systems. If you are looking for an engineer who treats infrastructure as a product, let’s connect.
Leading the platform engineering initiatives for an innovative agritech solution. - DevSecOps Transformation: Embedded security into the CI/CD pipeline using container scanning (Trivy/Snyk), ensuring zero critical vulnerabilities in production. - Microservices Architecture: Orchestrated the migration to AWS Kubernetes (EKS), utilizing Helm charts to standardize deployments across dev, staging and prod environments. - DataOps Implementation: optimized data ingestion workflows leveraging Apache Kafka, enabling real-time processing for the data science team. - IaC Automation: Reduced environment provisioning time by 50% through reusable Terraform modules.
Architected and maintained scalable cloud systems to automate development workflows and support millions of daily active users in a high-traffic gaming environment - Scale & Reliability: Architected AWS/Kubernetes infrastructure supporting 2M+ daily active users, defining Service Level Objectives (SLOs) to maintain 99.99% availability. - FinOps & Cost Reduction: Reduced monthly cloud infrastructure costs by 20% by implementing aggressive auto-scaling policies and spot instance strategies. - Zero-Downtime Deployments: Automated CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/GitLab) to support Blue/Green deployments, cutting release times by 40%. -Security Compliance: Achieved 100% SOC2 compliance by implementing HashiCorp Vault for centralized secrets management.
Focused on DevOps initiatives for the Zebra Small Mobile Printer (ZSB) project, enhancing deployment processes and infrastructure scalability. - Azure Migration: Led the migration of 50+ enterprise workloads to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) using Terraform, modernizing legacy applications for the cloud. - Governance & Compliance: Implemented Azure Policy and Sentinel to enforce regulatory compliance across 100+ subscriptions, reducing vulnerability remediation time by 60%. - Pipeline Optimization: Designed YAML-based Azure DevOps pipelines, reducing build/deploy cycles from 45 minutes to 15 minutes. - Cost Savings: Reduced infrastructure overhead by 35% through right-sizing and reserved instance planning.
Contributed to DevOps transformation at a leading marketing and advertising services company, focusing on cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes migration, and CI/CD automation. - Spearheaded migration of 120+ marketing analytics workloads to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), reducing compute costs by 28% through auto-scaling and spot instances - Engineered Azure DevOps YAML pipelines with Terraform/Ansible integration, achieving 95% consistent environment reproducibility across 15+ global regions - Designed Azure Monitor + Prometheus hybrid observability solution, decreasing incident MTTR from 47 to 12 minutes for critical campaign systems - Implemented Azure Policy as Code using Terraform, enforcing security/compliance standards across 200+ cloud resources (NIST 800-53 alignment) - Optimized Azure Blob Storage lifecycle policies for programmatic media assets, saving $18k/month in storage costs
Focused on optimizing development workflows, enhancing scalability, and automating infrastructure for robust, secure systems in a custom software environment. - Streamlined CI/CD with Jenkins, enhancing process automation. - Improved scalability with Docker and Kubernetes, achieving high availability. - Set up robust cloud infrastructure using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation. - Integrated Kafka for real-time data processing, optimizing data throughput and speed. - Ensured system stability with Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK Stack for monitoring and security assessments.