Leadership & Operational Ownership

• Leading and mentoring 5 platform engineers across 25+ environments, owning architectural decisions and delivery priorities, and resolving technical blockers while maintaining 99.99% availability for services handling millions of requests per hour.
• Restored service in a secondary AWS region for the UAE's largest bank during a regional outage, leading emergency recovery of RDS, S3, and DynamoDB data.

Internal Developer Platform & Self-Service

• Introduced a developer self-service model, shifting routine environment operations from the platform team to developers through an internal portal designed and built using React and Golang.
• Enabled independent deployments, on-demand scaling, and a centralized view of 25+ environments across 20+ AWS accounts, reducing dependency on the platform team for day-to-day operations.

Process Improvements

• Reduced deployment duration per environment from two days to a few hours by leading initiatives to improve release processes and automate manual workflows.
• Enabled independent, continuous delivery of platform-owned infrastructure changes, including Kubernetes upgrades and Helm chart updates, by proposing a separate release process and securing stakeholder approval.
• Saved 40+ engineering hours per release cycle by automating release documentation across 15+ production environments using a custom Claude plugin and skills.

FinOps & Cost Optimization

• Delivered $500K+ in monthly cloud cost savings by leading infrastructure rightsizing, Spot adoption for non-critical workloads, Keyspaces capacity optimization, resource and snapshot cleanup, and CloudTrail logging optimization.

Cloud Infrastructure, Kubernetes & CI/CD

• Leading critical service upgrades (EKS, RDS, MSK) with zero downtime and no data loss.
• Led migration from ingress-nginx to Gateway API to address the controller's end of support.
• Reduced critical CVEs through comprehensive cluster security implementation including Kyverno policy enforcement, Trivy vulnerability scanning, and automated AMI patching via Karpenter.
• Built the product's Azure platform with reusable Terraform modules for AKS, networking, and managed databases, targeting AWS production parity and multi-cloud deployment.
• Cut infrastructure provisioning from hours to minutes by building a one-click GitLab orchestration framework that runs 15+ Terraform pipelines in dependency order, replacing manual sequential execution.

• Containerized legacy applications and migrated them to Kubernetes, delivering production-grade scalability and reliability.
• Built and rolled out GitOps workflows with ArgoCD, Helm, Kustomize, and External Secrets, ensuring consistency across production and non-prod environments.
• Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions integrated with ArgoCD, enabling automated and reliable deployment strategy with minimal human intervention.
• Implemented a centralized observability stack with OpenSearch and Fluent Bit, reducing incident detection and troubleshooting time from hours to minutes.
• Continuously improved Terraform codebase to ensure consistent infrastructure across environments.
• Integrated AWS SSO with ArgoCD and OpenSearch, tightening access control and simplifying authentication across the platform.

• Migrated workloads from standalone EC2 instances to auto-scaling-group based architecture, improving availability and reducing operational overhead.
• Enhanced CI/CD pipelines with CircleCI and AWS CodeDeploy, accelerating release velocity and minimizing deployment failures.
• Authored reusable CloudFormation templates to standardize infrastructure provisioning and ensure consistency across projects.
• Tuned and optimized Nginx configurations, reducing application response times by more than 70%.
• Automated repetitive operational tasks with Bash scripting, increasing team efficiency and reducing manual toil.
• Integrated New Relic for application performance monitoring, enabling proactive issue detection and faster root-cause analysis.

• Worked on writing reusable IaC scripts in CloudFormation and Terraform for seamless infrastructure provisioning.
• Contributed to the design and implementation of an application migration from Rackspace to AWS ECS, improving scalability and reliability of services.
• Developed AWS Lambda functions workflow orchestration using Step Functions, automating event-driven processes.
• Set up SFTP server on AWS using AWS Transfer Service, ensuring secure and reliable data transfer.