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owais@devops:~$ whoami

Muhammad Owais Ahmed

> Senior DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer

Architecting high-scale, production-ready multi-cloud ecosystems across AWS, GCP, and OCI for a global user base exceeding 10M. Specializing in GitOps automation, zero-downtime cross-region migrations, and enterprise DevSecOps.

Multi-Cloud AWS/GCP/OCI Kubernetes & ArgoCD Terraform & GitOps Zero-Trust DevSecOps 10M+ User SRE
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Cold-Standby DR RTO
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Architecting Resilient Platforms

Bridging automated delivery lifecycles, zero-trust cloud security, and high-concurrency availability.

Core Engineering Philosophy

I am an accomplished Senior DevOps & Infrastructure specialist with a proven track record of designing, provisioning, and defending enterprise multi-cloud platforms across AWS, GCP, and OCI.

From architecting Saudi Arabia large organization cybersecurity standard (SACS) compliant OCI environments for AI worker safety pipelines to handling peak traffic spikes of 130,000 concurrent sessions for food-tech backends, I engineer systems that are fault-tolerant, self-healing, and strictly audited.

My expertise spans commit-aware GitOps (ArgoCD), Terraform IaC orchestration, distributed tracing with New Relic APM, zero-downtime cross-region migrations, and rigorous FinOps optimization.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (BSCS)

FAST NUCES — National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences

Karachi, Pakistan • 2019 – 2023

Governance & Zero Trust

  • Saudi Enterprise SACS Compliance
  • OCI Vault Customer-Managed Keys
  • OIDC GitHub IAM Federation
  • Cloud Armor & WAF Rate Limiting
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Key Architectural Achievements

Verified high-scale production achievements extracted directly from enterprise multi-cloud operations.

DR <2m RTO
Engineered a WAF-shielded cold-standby DR platform on Google Kubernetes Engine (<2-min RTO), driving automated deployments and autoscaled load balancing via ArgoCD GitOps and rapid DNS failover. Eliminated container secret leaks across microservices using runtime GCP Secret Manager CSI mounts and pre-boot validation, paired with New Relic distributed tracing.
10M+ USERS
Orchestrated backend for a 10M+ user food-tech ecosystem, successfully managing peak traffic of approximately 130,000 concurrent sessions.
82% PIPELINE
Optimized delivery lifecycles by 82% through commit-aware GitOps pipelines, slashing deployment windows from 17 minutes down to 3 minutes.
95% SEC HUB
Realized a 95% AWS Security Hub rating by implementing automated DevSecOps controls provisioned entirely via Terraform IaC.
0 DOWNTIME
Managed a seamless, overnight multi-cloud migration across AWS, GCP, and MongoDB Atlas with zero service interruption.
75% LATENCY
Enhanced performance by re-platforming Lambda functions to ECS Fargate, driving a 75% reduction in API response latency (from 4s to 1s) and tripling concurrent user capacity to 87K.
SEV-1 COMMAND
Commanded SEV-1/SEV-2 incident response at 10M+ user scale, ensuring rapid recovery with absolute data integrity through chaos engineering debugging.
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Production Experience

Real-world infrastructure leadership across high-scale food-tech, AI computer vision, and clean energy.

Senior DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer

Techbanq • Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
April 2025 – Present

Dirasa — AI-Powered Worker Safety & Compliance Platform

AI/ML Infrastructure & Platform Engineering
  • Architected a production-ready OCI environment for a large Saudi Arabian organization, achieving strict adherence to five enterprise cybersecurity standards (SACS-212/330/341/345/373) and containerized MediaPipe CV pipelines.
DevSecOps & Zero Trust Architecture
  • Secured contractor identity data via OCI Vault customer-managed encryption and GitHub Actions CI/CD integrated with OIDC federation to OCI IDCS.
  • Mitigated OWASP Top 10 risks by implementing a 3-tier VCN topology protected by OCI WAF and Load Balancers with TLS 1.3 traffic inspection.
Observability & Cloud Security Posture
  • Established continuous security posture management using VCN Flow Logs, threshold-based monitoring alerts, and OCI Cloud Guard for real-time detection.

Cheezious — Food-Tech Platform (10M+ Users, 500+ APIs, 18 DBMS)

Platform Engineering & Cloud Architecture
  • Architected an automated cold-standby DR cluster on Google Kubernetes Engine (<3-min RTO) using ArgoCD GitOps, dynamic HPA autoscaling, DNS traffic shifting, and multi-tier load balancing protected by Cloud Armor/WAF.
  • Hardened microservice security and observability by replacing build-time secrets with GCP Secret Manager CSI runtime injection, standardizing monorepo builds, and deploying New Relic distributed tracing for full APM parity.
  • Executed a zero-downtime, overnight cross-region migration (Middle East to APAC) encompassing AWS, GCP, and MongoDB Atlas environments.
  • Slashed API response latency by 75% and tripled concurrent user capacity to 87K through Lambda to ECS Fargate re-platforming and database tuning.
  • Hardened database resilience via automated scaling for MongoDB and PostgreSQL using EventBridge/Lambda and production-tuned RDS configuration.
  • Eliminated critical single points of failure by migrating legacy EC2 cron jobs to EventBridge, ECS scheduled tasks, and Atlas triggers.
  • Hardened database resilience via automated scaling for MongoDB and PostgreSQL using EventBridge/Lambda and production-tuned RDS parameter configuration.
GitOps & CI/CD Pipelines
  • Accelerated deployment speed by 82% via commit-aware service builds and replaced static secrets with OIDC-based OAuth 2.0 IAM federation.
  • Optimized delivery lifecycles through iterative tuning of build caching and workflows across CodePipeline and GitHub Actions.
DevSecOps & Shift-Left Security
  • Neutralized query DoS and session hijacking vulnerabilities through WAF hardening, key rotation policies, and Burp Suite/Nuclei assessments.
Observability & Incident Response (SRE)
  • Led SEV-1/SEV-2 incident command for 10M+ users, ensuring rapid service restoration with data integrity through chaos engineering debugging.
  • Minimized MTTR by deploying New Relic APM with customized dashboards for failure tracking and proactive anomaly alerting.
FinOps
  • Reduced multi-cloud overhead across five vendors by rightsizing resources and consolidating redundant infrastructure components.
  • Implemented Cloud CDN with private origin storage buckets for media sharing, dramatically reducing latency, bandwidth costs, and edge attack surface via WAF.

AWS DevOps Engineer

Enerlytics Lab • Karachi, Pakistan
March 2024 – April 2025
  • Reduced infrastructure costs by over 50% by architecting serverless APIs and a Kubernetes cluster provisioned via Terraform IaC and ArgoCD.
  • Attained a 95% AWS Security Hub rating through automated IaC provisioning of GuardDuty and Cognito-based OIDC authentication.
  • Streamlined deployment cycles by engineering automated CI/CD pipelines for Lambda and frontend service delivery.

Associate DevOps Engineer

Zaraye • Karachi, Pakistan
August 2023 – March 2024
  • Supported high-availability operations for .NET and Node.js applications through proactive AWS infrastructure scaling and load balancing.
  • Orchestrated secure MySQL migrations and DNS lifecycle management while enforcing least-privilege IAM security controls.
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Cloud & DevOps Stack

Production-hardened tooling across multi-cloud governance, container runtimes, and telemetry.

Cloud Platforms

AWS (ECS, Fargate, Lambda, S3, Guard Duty) GCP (GKE, Big Query, Maps, Vertex, Wallet) Oracle Cloud (OCI VCN, Vault, Cloud Guard) Microsoft Azure Cloudflare Pages & WAF

Containers & IaC

Docker Kubernetes (GKE, EKS) Terraform AWS CloudFormation HPA Autoscaling

GitOps & CI/CD

Argo CD GitHub Actions AWS CodePipeline AWS CodeBuild Commit-Aware Builds

Observability & Security

New Relic Distributed Tracing Prometheus & Grafana ELK Stack OCI Vault WAF & Cloud Armor Burp Suite OIDC Federation Twingate Zero Trust GCP Secret Manager CSI

Databases

PostgreSQL / RDS MongoDB Atlas MySQL Amazon DynamoDB Supabase Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL) Redis Cache

DevSecOps

OCI Vault AWS GuardDuty AWS Security Hub (95% Rating) WAF Hardening Burp Suite & Nuclei OIDC & OAuth 2.0 IAM Least Privilege AWS Systems Manager (SSM)

FinOps & Infrastructure Optimization

Consolidated Multi-Cloud Rightsizing Overhead Reduction Across 5 Vendors Cloud CDN Private Origin Buckets Bandwidth Cost & Latency Reduction
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Featured Systems & Deployments

Highlights of multi-cloud architectures built for massive scale, low latency, and zero tolerance for downtime.

DISASTER RECOVERY
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Cold-Standby DR Platform on GKE

Engineered a WAF-shielded disaster recovery platform on Google Kubernetes Engine with <2-min RTO, automated deployments via ArgoCD GitOps, autoscaled load balancing, and rapid DNS failover. Eliminated secret leaks with runtime GCP Secret Manager CSI mounts.

GKE ArgoCD Cloud Armor Secret Manager CSI DNS Failover
ZERO DOWNTIME
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Overnight Multi-Cloud Migration

Executed a seamless, overnight cross-region migration (Middle East to APAC) across AWS, GCP, and MongoDB Atlas with zero service interruption for 10M+ users and 18 database instances, maintaining absolute transaction consistency.

AWS GCP MongoDB Atlas Route53 Zero Downtime
ENTERPRISE SECURITY
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Saudi Enterprise OCI Security Architecture

Architected a production-ready OCI environment for an AI worker safety platform adhering to five cybersecurity standards (SACS-212/330/341/345/373) for a large Saudi Arabian organization. Containerized MediaPipe computer vision pipelines with OCI Vault customer-managed encryption and OIDC federation.

Oracle Cloud (OCI) OCI Vault Saudi SACS Standard WAF TLS 1.3 MediaPipe CV
HIGH CONCURRENCY
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Lambda to ECS Fargate Re-Platforming

Enhanced backend performance by re-platforming legacy Lambda serverless functions to autoscaling ECS Fargate clusters, driving a 75% reduction in API response latency (from 4s to 1s) and tripling concurrent user capacity to 87K concurrent sessions.

AWS ECS Fargate EventBridge RDS Tuning Auto Scaling
DEVSECOPS IAC
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Terraform DevSecOps Pipeline

Achieved a 95% AWS Security Hub rating through automated DevSecOps controls provisioned entirely via Terraform IaC, with GuardDuty threat monitoring, Cognito OIDC identity federation, and automated vulnerability scanning.

Terraform IaC Security Hub GuardDuty OIDC / IAM
OBSERVABILITY / SRE
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Telemetry & SEV-1 Incident Command

Commanded SEV-1/SEV-2 incident recovery at 10M+ user scale, ensuring zero data corruption. Deployed New Relic distributed tracing across 500+ APIs with proactive threshold anomaly alerting, drastically minimizing MTTR.

New Relic APM Prometheus Distributed Tracing Chaos Engineering
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Let's Build Resilient Cloud Systems

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BACKGROUND SYSTEM TELEMETRY
WAF DEFENSE: 3 DDoS ATTACKERS MITIGATED
DATA MIGRATION: ME ➔ APAC (0 DOWNTIME)
DISASTER RECOVERY: <2-MIN GKE RTO ACTIVE