Zerq Jehan Ahmed

Spearheaded the creation of a highly available, secure, and resilient cloud infrastructure based on AWS Cloud that included services such as AWS Compute Services, AWS Database Services, AWS Serverless Services, AWS Storage Services etc.
Collaborated with development team to streamline CI/CD pipelines using AWS Developer Tools and Azure DevOps that sped up the software release by 40% for organizations: "SafeinHome" and "Matfresher".
Utilized AWS Management and Governance Services for log aggregation, monitoring, creating custom dashboards and alerts for timely issue identification and resolution.
Implemented security best practices by utilizing AWS Networking and Content Delivery Services and AWS Security, Identity, and Compliance Services to ensure data privacy and compliance.
Worked closely with stakeholders to establish budget limits, track expenses, and provide cost optimization recommendations by utilizing AWS Cloud Financial Management Services resulting in cost savings by 40%.
Worked with the AWS Container Services to deploy and manage containerized applications, utilizing task definitions, services, and load balancers for efficient orchestration.
Managed the AWS Cloud Infrastructure utilizing AWS CloudFormation to automate and orchestrate the provisioning of AWS resources.
Migration of On-premises infrastructure to AWS Cloud that for an organization “Cointelegraph”.
Conducted knowledge sharing sessions and provided training to development team members on AWS best practices and DevOps principles. 

Led the design of a resilient, secure, high availability cloud infrastructure based on Google Cloud in support for long-term engineering goals that included services such as Compute, Storage, Databases, Networking, Operations, Data Analytics, Security and Identity and Serverless Computing.
Managed 1000+ Terraform Configurations files for managing infrastructure of an organization "Priceline" in the Google Cloud Based Environment.
Managed 100+ FluxCD manifest files for Kubernetes infrastructure provisioning based on GKE of the same organization.
Prepared and updated terraform custom modules according to the organization’s requirements that reduced the failures of creating resources by 30%.
Prepared and managed Harness configurations for CI/CD of Kubernetes Infrastructure that sped up the software release by 40%.
Prepared and updated Helm Charts for provisioning of Kubernetes resources that reduced the manual work by 40 %.
Created and maintained fully automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment using GitHub Actions, CircleCI, AppCenter and Jenkins leading to an improvement to ship the new feature releases by 60%.
Actively manage, improve, and monitor Google Cloud Infrastructure including backups, patches, and scaling.
Designed DevOps infrastructure from scratch for an organization "Honeycomb”.

Setup AWS Cloud Infrastructure using IaC (Infrastructure as Code) tools such as AWS CloudFormation and Terraform that sped up the process by 60% of creating required resources.
Integrated IaC configurations into CI/CD Pipelines for automated development and deployment of the software that further sped up the process of software releases by 30%.
Prepared divergent Linux servers with Ngnix, Php-fpm, Wagtail, Gunicorn, and uWSGI with best security practices and performance tuning that cut the risk of breaches by 40% and improved the performance by 30%.
Wrote Ansible manifests to deploy, configure, and manage servers for application deployments that sped up the software release by 40%.
Developed a scaffold for setting up Zabbix with Grafana and Prometheus.

Led the architectural transition of the application according to 12 Factor App Principles in the AWS environment.
Built and deployed Docker containers to break up monolithic app into micro-services.
Setup the Kubernetes Infrastructure using Kustomize and ArgoCD for CI/CD that allowed the application to scale automatically without downtime.
Service owner for configuration management, CI/CD, and version control using Git and GitHub Actions that reduced the time to deploy the application by 40%.

Developed and maintained web applications using Python and Django.