Muhammad Alnaghi

- Led pivotal projects at Cloudypedia for Saudi Payments, including Apigee infrastructure and Developer Portals.
- Managed diverse work environments, encompassing Google Cloud-hosted testing environments, on-premises setups for testing and development, and on-premises pre-production and production environments.
- Collaborating for impactful projects with key Saudi organizations like Tawal, Najm, Mobily, National Water Company, National Development Fund and Saudi Authority for Data and Artificial Intelligence (‎SDAIA).
Proactively monitored and optimized Linux servers and containers, ensuring system stability and performance.
- Orchestrated seamless Single Sign-On (SSO) integration, Active Directory configuration, and OpenLDAP implementation, ensuring robust user authentication and access management.
- Managed the configuration and monitoring of lsyncd for reliable file synchronization and Drupal content management system components, utilizing tools like Drush and Composer.
- Utilized various CRM APIs to streamline customer relationship management and facilitate efficient data exchange across platforms.
- Employed diverse database technologies, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB.
- Collaborated closely with Customers Network Administration and IAM Teams to facilitate Network Access and Identity Management Requests.
- Utilized Nexus Repository Manager, Bitbucket, and SonarQube for effective code repository management and code quality analysis.

• Designed and implemented scalable CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Argo CD, reducing deployment
times by 40% and improving release reliability across enterprise systems for Saudi Payments and Tawal.
• Optimized Kubernetes clusters on GCP (GKE) and AWS (EKS), improving resource efficiency and achieving a
30% reduction in cloud costs through autoscaling and workload tuning.
• Automated full infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and Ansible, cutting manual configuration by 80%
and ensuring consistent environment reproducibility.
• Standardized GitOps workflows across 50+ microservices on GKE using Argo CD and Helm; implemented
branch-based environment promotion (development → stage → production) with automated rollback and health
verification.
• Migrated artifact publishing from legacy Nexus to Google Artifact Registry via automated refactoring of Gradle
configurations, eliminating insecure credentials and standardizing authentication with GAR OAuth tokens.
• Developed advanced observability stacks using Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK, reducing mean time to detect
(MTTD) and respond (MTTR) by 30%.
• Conducted Apigee Edge workshops for the National Water Company (NWC), upskilling 10+ developers in API
management, monitoring, and best security practices.
• Integrated enterprise SSO and Active Directory for 1, 000+ users at Saudi Payments, strengthening authentica
tion and central access management.
• Authored comprehensive CI/CD and GitOps documentation (Pipeline Flows, Deployment Guide, A→Z Overview)
to accelerate onboarding and maintain operational consistency across teams.