Muhammad U.

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Muhammad U. is a DevOps Engineer with over four years of experience in building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, primarily in AWS and Google Cloud environments. His core technology stack includes Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, and Terraform, through which he designs and manages scalable, high-availability systems. Muhammad builds CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, and GitHub Actions, integrating security tools like SonarQube and Trivy. He implements observability solutions with Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog,

  • Projects completed7
  • Hourly rate
  • 3-4 years experience
  • Islamabad, Pakistan
  • Member since Jun 2026
Industries
AI/ML
Expertise
AWSKubernetesBashPythonDatabase:RelationalSQLKafka
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Assessments

General Project Assessment

Great on Implement LRU Cache Algorithm, Difficulty Medium · Great on Design a High-Availability, Compliant EKS Deployment, Difficulty Medium · Great on Design a Scalable and Compliant SaaS Platform Architecture, Difficulty Hard

Projects

Amazon EKS Provisioning using Terraform

Designed and provisioned production-ready Amazon EKS infrastructure using Terraform with reusable modules, remote state management, IAM roles, VPC networking, managed node groups, and autoscaling, enabling consistent and automated Kubernetes deployments.

End-to-End Observability & Monitoring Platform

Implemented a complete observability stack using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry, and Jaeger for infrastructure, applications, and databases. Configured dashboards, log aggregation, distributed tracing, alerting, and Slack/Email notifications to improve system visibility and incident response.

AI-Powered CI/CD Pipeline

Built an end-to-end CI/CD pipeline for Development, Staging, and Production environments using GitHub Actions and Google Cloud Build. Integrated AI-based failure detection, automated testing, security scanning, deployment approvals, and rollback strategies to improve deployment reliability.

Cloud Cost Optimization

Reduced cloud infrastructure costs by up to 90% through networking and architecture optimization, including CDN redesign, storage optimization, caching improvements, and traffic routing enhancements while maintaining application performance and availability.

Monolith to Microservices Migration

Led the migration of a monolithic application to a Kubernetes-based microservices architecture using Docker and Amazon EKS. Designed the complete platform including CI/CD with Jenkins, security scanning using Trivy, SonarQube, and OWASP Dependency-Check, GitOps deployment with ArgoCD, and end-to-end monitoring using Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki with Slack and email alerting.

AWS Three-Tier Architecture Deployment

Architected and deployed a highly available three-tier application on AWS using public/private subnets, Application Load Balancer (ALB), Auto Scaling Groups (ASG), NAT Gateway, AWS WAF, VPN connectivity, and secure networking following AWS best practices.

On-Premises to Private Cloud Migration

Successfully migrated enterprise applications from on-premises infrastructure to a private cloud environment using a lift-and-shift approach. Planned migration strategy, minimized downtime, validated workloads, and optimized infrastructure for improved scalability and operational efficiency.

Experience
  1. DevOps Engineer

    ProsperTech.io· AI/MLDec 2025Present
    • Reduced GCP networking costs by $1,655/month on an Education App by diagnosing Tel Aviv anycast misrouting and migrating to Bunny CDN with a validated staging cutover.
    • Architected staging and production environments on GCP using Cloud Armor (WAF), Google Cloud Load Balancer, and Managed Instance Groups for autoscaling and high availability.
    • Managed AWS environments (EC2, EKS, S3, RDS, SQS, Lambda) including stateful Kubernetes workloads with persistent volume claims and StatefulSets.
    • Built multi-stage GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines (dev → staging → prod) using IAP tunnels for secure deployment to private VPC resources.
    • Deployed a self-hosted LLM inference stack (Ollama + Docker Compose, NVIDIA L4) with a systemd idle-monitor to auto-shutdown GPU VMs after 15 minutes of inactivity, reducing idle compute to near zero.
    • Deployed Python scripts as Cloud Run scheduled jobs for cron-like automation tasks.
    • Built and operated a hybrid observability stack: self-hosted Prometheus + Grafana + Loki on GCP with Slack alerting, alongside Datadog APM for application performance and ServiceNow integration for ITSM workflows.
    • Authored and maintained modular Terraform configurations for reproducible infrastructure provisioning across AWS and GCP environments.
    • Ensured compliance with SOC 2 and HIPAA through access control audits, encryption enforcement, secrets management, and policy reviews; implemented resource tagging strategies for cost attribution and FinOps governance.
    GCPAWSTerraformGitHub ActionsDockerPrometheusGrafanaDatadogPythonkubernetesEKSArgocd
  2. DevOps Engineer (Ops Team)

    Systems LimitedJul 2023Dec 2025
    • Maintained high availability and reliability of production Linux-based systems (Apollo, JBoss) across 24/7 operations in collaboration with cross-functional ops teams.
    • Designed, deployed, and managed Kubernetes (EKS) clusters for stateful and stateless workloads; provisioned infrastructure using Terraform for reproducible, modular IaC deployments.
    • Built and maintained Prometheus and Grafana observability stack — authored custom alerting rules, runbooks, and dashboards — reducing incident response time by 25% via structured escalation.
    • Managed PostgreSQL and MySQL databases on RDS/Aurora including backup strategies, performance tuning, high-availability configuration, and disaster recovery planning.
    • Designed and implemented 3-tier AWS architecture using VPC, public/private subnets, NAT gateways, and security group chaining following CIS benchmark hardening guidelines.
    • Leveraged Datadog for infrastructure monitoring and APM; integrated ServiceNow for ITSM ticket management and incident lifecycle tracking.
    • Applied FinOps principles with cloud resource tagging policies to monitor and govern cloud spend across AWS environments.
    LinuxKubernetesTerraformPrometheusGrafanaPostgreSQLMySQLAWSDatadog
  3. DevOps Engineer

    Digital NucleusSep 2022Jun 2023
    • Developed and maintained CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins and GitLab CI for production-grade SaaS environments, integrating SonarQube, OWASP Dependency Check, and Trivy into a full DevSecOps workflow.
    • Architected scalable, high-availability cloud infrastructure using Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS, ensuring uptime and platform reliability for stateful services.
    • Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform, reducing deployment errors by 40% and enabling repeatable, modular IaC across environments.
    • Deployed and managed Prometheus and Grafana monitoring stacks; administered PostgreSQL databases with backup, recovery, and performance tuning procedures.
    • Enforced resource tagging, cost governance, and Linux OS hardening (via Ansible) across all managed infrastructure.
    JenkinsGitLab CISonarQubeOWASP Dependency CheckTrivyDockerKubernetesAWSTerraformPrometheusGrafanaPostgreSQLAnsibleWAFCloud Armour
  4. DevOps Engineer

    IT WalySep 2021Sep 2022
    • Architected and managed Kubernetes clusters using Helm for stateful and stateless deployments; implemented GitOps-based continuous delivery via ArgoCD.
    • Automated Linux-based infrastructure provisioning and OS hardening using Ansible and Terraform; maintained system reliability and performance under high compute loads.
    • Integrated Prometheus/Grafana monitoring with Slack alerts and ServiceNow incident workflows, reducing MTTR by 35%.
    • Administered Kafka messaging infrastructure for event-driven workloads; conducted load and reliability testing to validate distributed system performance.
    • Managed PostgreSQL instances including schema maintenance, backup validation, and performance profiling.
    KubernetesHelmGitOpsArgoCDAnsibleTerraformPrometheusGrafanaSlackKafkaPostgreSQL
Education
  1. Bachelor of Computer Science

    University of PeshawarPeshawar, Pakistan2018 — 2022
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