Syed is a Senior DevOps Engineer with 10+ years of experience, starting as a network engineer and evolving to SysAdmin/DevOps and Chief Architect/SEM role. He provides production expertise for automation and monitoring solutions, streamlining core processes by introducing automation and optimization tasks on different infrastructures. Syed has managed multiple dev teams, team processes, and performance for full lifecycle tasks on software solution delivery, from idea to deployment. He works in fast-paced environments, applying sound engineering practices to deliver functional, stable, and scalable solutions on projects.
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.
Migrating a back-end application (Rail) from Heroku to AWS ECS (Fargate) and accommodating developers' feature requirements on AWS (Fargate console, schedule deployment, etc.).
Working on the security aspect of infrastructure, building multiple deployment processes, different for each environment.
Developing and improving monitoring with Datadog and Python (Lambda functions) and working on AWS RDS to AWS Redshift replication using AWS DMS.
Supervised, architected, and took part in implementing technologies and platforms supporting a complex internal application; introduced and enforced process/structure to the team (Jira Workflow, RCA, etc.).
Optimized infrastructure (AWS) and a third-party monitoring tool (Datadog) and maintained repositories for DevOps environment: automation code and configuration.
Developed and improved automation (Ansible) and supported multiple environments, which included production, staging, and QA; also improved monitoring with Datadog and Python (Lambda functions).
Managed team processes and performance for full lifecycle tasks on software solution delivery, from idea to deployment.
Managed multiple engineers and teams, holding the team accountable for different commitments and deliverables.
Worked in a fast-paced, flexible environment and applied sound engineering practices to deliver functional, stable, and scalable solutions on projects.
Built a custom monitoring stack using Zabbix, Prometheus, and Grafana to make decisions on Amazon CloudWatch and handled the monitoring infrastructure of 70+ companies, 180+ products, with over 10K containers.
Developed a strong and dynamic central monitoring platform to handle more than 180 different products and technologies for ESW Capital clients.
Strategized and implemented tactical approaches for solutions within the company.
Worked on a one-click application and server launch platform that allows the customer to log in to the console and have multiple open source applications launched within a few minutes to a cloud provider like, AWS, GCE, Digital Ocean, etc. Automated processes and tasks for the one-click application launch solution. Introduced caching and 8+ applications with different versions to the platform. The solution was launched and has 25K+ users.
Managed and handled the operations of ESW Capital's Monitoring team to create a dynamic central monitoring platform that enables the firm to monitor every product under its umbrella. Built an internal AWS RDS solution to monitor queries from the database team and perform custom checks. The solution was released successfully for internal use with the capacity to monitor 70+ products, 180+ applications, and 10K+ containers.
