Syed Owais Ali
Project Management
Sindh, Pakistan
Skills
DevOps
About
Syed Owais Ali's skills align with Programmers (Information and Communication Technology). Syed also has skills associated with System Developers and Analysts (Information and Communication Technology). Syed Owais Ali appears to be a low-to-mid level candidate, with 4 years of experience, with 2 years of management experience, including a somewhat high-level position.
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Work Experience
Cloud Engineer
Newyork
September 2022 - Present
- USA - Remote Achievements/Tasks Configured CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins/CircleCI & Maven to speed up deployment by 50%, allowing the company to release more features in less time. Developed & maintained Cloud Infrastructure costs, optimized performance & scalability and reduced infrastructure cost by 25% through judicious usage of AWS Compute, S3, RDS, ECS (Fargate). Revamped Terraform Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates for serverless and microservice architecture, reducing infrastructure costs by 25% and increasing deployment efficiency by 30%. Establishes ArgoCD deployment strategies using OLM operators to perform rollout feature updates in production phase with zero-downtime. Improved EKS cluster Monitoring by setting up Prometheus agentless monitoring and collecting performance metrics, leading to 20% increase in response time and improved SLAs and decision strategy with Quick Insights Dashboards. Create CRUD API in GoLang for postgreSQL & MongoDB to handle internal data analytics platform. Implemented database indexing and schema optimization for faster query processing from - 10s to 1s, resulting in reduced CPU cost from - 100% to 25% and lower bandwidth utilization from - 100GB to 30GB. Configuration of Disaster Recovery strategies (Pilot Light & Warm Standby) over AWS
Project Executive
Complete CI/CD Pipeline
January 2022 - November 2023
- and involved in requirement gathering directly with client. Investigate the technology stack and conduct meeting with leads, managers and explains to them. Leading a team of 5 and mentoring Team members for their issues in code and logical implementation of pipeline to achieve robustness. Designing the prototype and implement it with the defined technology stock. Component creation, playbook development for config management & Webhook integration via Poll SCM. Allocate the issues to the team member's with Assembla task number and generate the report. PROJECTS
Cloud Engineer
Cloudways
August 2021 - September 2022
- Malta, EU - Remote Achievements/Tasks Consulted with our client's on DevOps culture and best practices in an effort to reduce deployment cycle time and increase productivity for developers and system administrators. Create bespoke microservice with cloud infrastructure solutions to revamp the architecture from API-driven to event-driven using serverless managed policies to reduce operational overhead of internal support teams. Reduced render time for static content of monolithic apps by 60% through CDN nodes/ edges, by customizing TTL and cache behavior for Cloudflare, Stackpath, and Amazon Cloudfront. Patternize the dockerfiles for multi-stage builds for light weight images helping the enterprise customer to build a scalable solution using FluxCD. Built high quality YAML scripts for the Ansible hosts to run on the set of hosts for quick release of package support for the enduser. This allows to release upgraded package support as soon as it's been live by the author. Streamlined UI/UX development by automating static code analysis with SonarQube in CI pipeline. As a Cloud Engineer, I deployed applications on self-managed Kubernetes cluster for internal app using Kubeadm for onpremises staging environments, leading to quickly identifying the desired cluster configurations over GKE & AKS.
Automatic Safe Updates for Wordpress Apps
September 2021 - April 2022
- Configure bash scripts to trigger the wp upgrades on targeted hosts. Establish Ansible playbook to run adhoc deployment based on versionID update from ECR repository. Setup Automated scheduling SMTP to send alert if updates failed so customers manually fix the code issue. Provisioned failure policy using python in case of disaster to rollout to previous version during updates to avoid downtime.
Associate Cloud Engineer
Cloudways
December 2020 - August 2021
- Malta, EU - (Hybrid) Achievements/Tasks Automate Application migration task and V-host configuration for multiple custom wordpress apps using bash scripts. This move result in resolving clients issues for internal support teams. Optimize built-in bash scripts to speed up debugging of issues by 40%. functions and Gpg keys for securing the Cloud instances. This adds up in mitigation of brute-force attempts by 25%. Encrypt data backups through duplicity and S3 KMS encryption service to regularly store and manage customer data for compliance standards. Escalating issues to product engineering keeping up the SLA/SLO for our Enterprise consumers.
Trainee Cloud Engineer
Cloudways
September 2020 - December 2020
- (On-site) Achievements/Tasks Operating with highly knowledgeable individuals and Devops Engineers to identify the server issues. Configured monitoring scripts for group of small teams that triggered tcpdump traces for network congestion outperforming the alerts and SLA/SLOs for standard client's Apps with 15% less bogus alerts with zapier/slack. Preparedvarietyofwrittencommunications, reportsanddocumentsforrequirementsandpost-maintenanceissues reported in Jira/Confluence. Support in revamping the knowledge base articles for more clarity, this reduce the load on Tech support by 25% from previous quarter. PROJECTS Multi-Cloud Spring Boot Application Deployment on K8 cluster using ArgoCD (10/2023 - Present) Configure Application deployment strategies. Designed the architecture of infrastructure through terraform. Implement CI from Jenkins as declarative pipeline through groovy syntax and Configured Poll SCM build on Maven to deploy Jar files over ArgoCD cluster. Setup & configure OLM dependencies for K8s. Install Sonarqube and integrate with Jenkins pipeline.
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