Kashif is a Senior DevOps Engineer, Cloud Architect, and Site Reliability Engineer with 15+ years of experience in infrastructure automation, containerization, and Kubernetes. He has written different scripts to automate deployments and OS-based operations and has set up and managed thousands of Linux and Windows servers using orchestration tools (Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.). Kashif provisions high-end cloud setups and migration solutions using AWS, Azure DevOps, and Google Cloud for local and global enterprise-level clients.
Delivering CI/CD as part of an Agile team to improve performance by automating and streamlining operations and processes.
Helping build and improve infrastructure, application, and performance development and ensuring tight security including data encryption, security groups, and environmental scanning.
Ensuring high-quality deliverables and implementing DevOps and security best practices in fast-paced environments.
Created CI/CD pipelines to automate infrastructure and application deployments with responsibilities for infrastructure in AWS and VMware on different products.
Implemented cloud infrastructure using Terraform and CloudFormation and automated Linux instances using Ansible and AWS OpsWorks.
Applied best practices, processes, and standards to drive projects and outcomes in an Agile environment.
Provided leadership, guidance, and support for the efficient management of mobile games and app development teams of almost 50 members.
Oversaw the teams for remote servers hosting thousands of customer applications, emails, and databases.
Collaborated with team leads to evaluate and implement features, schedule resource tradeoffs, and interact closely with designers, artists, and animators on different games.
Managed Amazon server/storage deployments including release process, image management, backup/restore, and HA/DR.
Debugged and troubleshot complex service issues, providing solutions to resolve production defects and perform regular root cause analysis on services.
Oversaw end-to-end administration of all virtual Amazon infrastructure, focusing on Linux-based systems and Bash/Perl scripting for day-to-day automation of administrative tasks.
Took primary ownership of the software preparation process for delivery, analyzing and interpreting build results to report, communicate, and work through issues with software engineers.
Trained junior developers on SCM processes and best practices and refined the configuration management and software release processes for Vopium.
Used Git as a repository system for CI/CD and deployment for Java applications.
Managed Conniva's Asterisk and Flash Media gateway connectivity setup for voice streaming through the flash media server.
Offered guidance for performance tuning of web and database servers as per the requirements of applications.
Provided technical assistance to developers on various issues relating to web/database servers on Unix/Linux/Windows 2003 and implemented security polices using firewalls, antivirus, and Unix internals.
Offered technical oversight for the management of local/remote servers in HE DC, Asterisk, IVR, and ATAs.
Worked on daily backup routines in Perl and Shell Scripts for local and remote MySQL databases and PHP applications, conducting audits and penetration tests for the US-based servers.
Planned and implemented uptimes and backups with mirroring plans for Naseeb and Rozee Live Servers.
Maintained the company email servers and developed new configurations using user requirements for the maintenance of mail servers including Exim, QMail, IMail, Sendmail and the local exchange server.
Worked on KANNEL to provide Web2SMS support to ZAJIL Telecom Saudi Arabia.
Managed a team of network engineers, scheduling, training, and motivating the team and department.
The CLX platform is designed to defragment the customer experience by unifying and streamlining how brands acquire, support, and engage customers. It is powered by smart digital customer acquisition technologies and a worldwide network of brand support and sales champions that provides a robust customer experience management platform in the industry. CLX is optimized to drive end-to-end customer acquisition, engagement, and growth for the world’s most discerning brands. Implemented a VMware-based cluster on the datacenter. Designed the architecture and added Nimble-based SSD storage and used AWS, Azure for different company projects and campaigns. Added CI/CD platform using Jenkins and Ansible/Terraform-based infrastructure orchestration and configuration management. It has 1000s of nodes infrastructure.
Lyris Technologies – now Aurea Email Marketing – is a leading digital messaging platform. It provides solutions that help companies engage in customer conversations, increases conversion, and achieves higher returns on marketing investments by better automating, integrating, and optimizing customer engagement programs through email marketing. Converted the solution to a microservice architecture using Docker, implemented automated deployments using Rundeck and TeamCity, and migrated the complete product to AWS EKS.
DNN provides a development framework and extensibility model for .NET developers. DNN has built-in tools for packaging, deploying, and versioning custom-developed extensions and provides a full commitment to backward compatibility. The microservice architecture on the framework was prepared on a legacy product. Implemented and automated deployments through Jenkins and Azure DevOps on Azure App Services and SQL Services, engineering the product for high availability and scalability.
Worked on the development of a solution that transformed the outdated process of screening talent with resumes and interviews. Crossover developed comprehensive tests for every role to ensure that teams consist of only the best of the best. Migrated the solution components to Docker, used AWS ElastiCache and AWS RDS to improve the overall performance of the architecture, and implemented AWS EKS for Crossover application.
Education
VMware Certified Professional 5 - Data Center Virtualization
