Available for Senior / Lead DevOps roles

Naveed Ahmed

Senior DevOps & Cloud Engineer with 10+ years of hands-on experience designing, automating, and operating resilient cloud infrastructure on AWS, GCP, and hybrid environments. Passionate about turning complex systems into elegant, self-healing pipelines.

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// 01. about

Who I Am

I'm Naveed Ahmed — a DevOps Engineer, Entrepreneur, and lifelong learner based in Pakistan. I completed my BSc in Computer Science from the University of Sindh and have spent the past decade building, migrating, and operating cloud-native infrastructure at scale.

My work spans the full infrastructure lifecycle: from architecting multi-region AWS environments and implementing zero-downtime CI/CD pipelines, to hardening security postures and mentoring junior engineers.

Beyond the terminal, I'm a teacher and social activist — I believe in sharing knowledge and using technology to create opportunities for communities around me.

10+
Years of Experience
50+
Production Systems Managed
3
Cloud Platforms
Terminal Commands Run
// 02. skills

Tech Stack

Cloud Platforms
AWS EC2 AWS VPC AWS ELB Auto Scaling Route 53 CloudFront S3 RDS CloudWatch Google Cloud Rackspace Softlayer
IaC & Automation
Ansible Terraform Vagrant Bash Scripting Python CloudFormation
Containers & Orchestration
Docker Docker Compose Kubernetes ECS ECR
CI/CD & DevOps
Jenkins GitHub Actions GitLab CI Git Bitbucket
Monitoring & Observability
New Relic Nagios PRTG CloudWatch ELK Stack Grafana
Systems & Networking
Linux / Unix VMware MySQL DNS HTTPS/TLS SSH SMTP Apache Bench JMeter
// 03. experience

Work History

Lead DevOps Engineer — Senior Engineer II
DigitalOcean
Sep 2022 — Present · Remote
  • Spearhead the design, implementation, and management of Kubernetes clusters on GKE, ensuring seamless deployment and scaling of containerized applications.
  • Architected and maintained highly available, fault-tolerant infrastructure with Auto Scaling, ELB, and multi-AZ configurations.
  • Implemented full CI/CD pipelines reducing deployment time by 70%.
  • Led containerization of monolithic applications into Docker/Kubernetes microservices.
  • Established disaster recovery plans and runbooks; achieved RTO < 1 hour on critical systems.
Lead DevOps Engineer
Cloudways
Jan 2022 — Aug 2022 · Malta · Remote
  • Led DevOps engineering for Cloudways' managed cloud hosting platform.
  • Automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration management across multiple cloud providers.
  • Improved platform reliability and deployment workflows for thousands of hosted applications.
Lead DevOps Engineer → DevOps Engineer → Cloud/System Admin
Gaditek
Jul 2016 — Aug 2022 · 6 yrs · Karachi
  • Grew from Cloud/System Admin to Lead DevOps Engineer over 6 years.
  • Explored and implemented CI/CD tools and technology within the organisation, including Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and GitLab CI.
  • Built and owned platform operations for KillPing — production environment builds, deployments, automation, and performance tuning.
  • Migrated complex web applications from Rackspace and dedicated servers to AWS without downtime.
  • Migrated production databases to AWS RDS using AWS Database Migration Service (DMS).
  • Designed and implemented scalable infrastructure for Mobivists and eQuiz on AWS.
Infrastructure Engineer
NexDegree
Apr 2016 — Jun 2016 · Pakistan
  • Worked with core AWS services: CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, SES, EC2, S3, CloudFront, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, Auto Scaling, ELB, VPC, RDS, Redshift, IAM, ElastiCache, Route 53.
  • Designed and deployed cloud-native infrastructure for client projects.
Deployment Engineer — AWS
PredictifyMe
Jun 2015 — Apr 2016 · Karachi
  • Designed and deployed dynamically scalable, highly available, fault-tolerant, and reliable applications on AWS.
  • Managed EC2 instances, VPCs, security groups, IAM roles, and S3 storage for production workloads.
// 04. certifications

Credentials

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AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Amazon Web Services
View Certificate ↗
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Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)
Red Hat
Certificate No: 150-207-785
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Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) Training
OpenED Sri Lanka
// 05. projects

Notable Projects

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Highly Available AWS Infrastructure – Mobivists

Designed and implemented a fault-tolerant, multi-AZ AWS architecture with Auto Scaling groups, Application Load Balancers, and RDS Multi-AZ for zero-downtime operations.

AWS EC2 Auto Scaling ELB RDS
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Zero-Downtime Rackspace → AWS Migration

Led end-to-end migration of a complex web application and its production database from Rackspace to AWS using AWS DMS, Route 53 weighted routing, and blue-green deployments.

AWS DMS Route 53 Blue-Green
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Ansible Infrastructure Automation

Built a comprehensive Ansible playbook library for provisioning and configuring web servers, databases, and monitoring agents across hundreds of nodes with idempotent, version-controlled automation.

Ansible Roles Vault YAML
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Smallseotools.com Auto-Scaling Migration

Moved a high-traffic SEO tools platform from dedicated servers to a fully elastic AWS architecture with Auto Scaling and ELB, cutting infrastructure costs while improving availability.

AWS Auto Scaling ELB Cost Optimization
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eQuiz Cloud Infrastructure Design

Architected the complete AWS cloud infrastructure for eQuiz from scratch, including VPC design, IAM policies, secure data storage, and a scalable compute layer.

VPC IAM S3 CloudFront
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Exness MT5 Trading Bot

Developed an automated trading bot in MQL5 for MT5 platform, implementing 15-minute timeframe strategy execution and risk management logic.

MQL5 MetaTrader5 Automation
// 06. contact

Get In Touch

Whether you have a role to discuss, a complex infrastructure challenge, or just want to say hello — my inbox is always open. I'll get back to you within 24 hours.

// 07. currently working on

What I'm Building Now

Actively building in these spaces — Apr 2026
// Primary Focus

AI Agents & Autonomous Automation

Combining my DevOps background with the latest AI tooling to build autonomous agents that can plan, execute, and self-correct infrastructure tasks. Exploring how LLMs + tool use can replace entire runbooks — from incident response to deployment pipelines.

AI Agents MCP Protocol LLM Tool Use Autonomous Pipelines
🤖
Active
AI Agents for DevOps

Building agents that autonomously handle on-call alerts, run root-cause analysis, apply fixes, and verify resolution — all without human intervention.

LangChainOpenAIKubernetesPrometheus
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Active
MCP (Model Context Protocol)

Implementing MCP servers to give AI agents real-time access to AWS, Kubernetes, GitHub, and internal tools — turning LLMs into true infrastructure operators.

MCPAWS SDKkubectlGitHub API
⚙️
Active
Workflow Automation

Replacing manual runbooks with fully automated, event-driven workflows. If a human is doing it more than twice, it gets automated.

n8nAnsiblePythonWebhooks
🧠
Active
Agent-Driven CI/CD

Pipelines where an AI agent decides the deployment strategy, monitors rollout health, and auto-rolls back — no static pipeline YAML required.

GitHub ActionsArgoCDLLMK8s
🔍
Building
Observability + AI Alerting

Using AI to correlate metrics, logs, and traces — auto-generating incident summaries and suggesting remediation steps directly in Slack.

GrafanaOpenTelemetrySlack APILLM
🏗️
Building
IaC Generation via LLM

Natural language → production-ready Terraform. Describe an architecture in plain English, get reviewed and applied IaC with full audit trail.

TerraformOpenAI APIAWSGit
// also exploring
🧩 Multi-agent systems 📡 RAG for runbook search 🔐 AI-assisted secret rotation 🌐 Browser automation agents 📊 FinOps AI advisor 🤝 Agent-to-agent coordination
// 08. infrastructure

How This Site Is Hosted

⚡ 100% Serverless ☁️ AWS Cloud 🌍 Global CDN 🔒 HTTPS Everywhere 💲 ~$0.01 / month
// architecture diagram naveedkumbhar.com + 5 subdomains
👤
Visitors
Worldwide
HTTPS Request
🔀
Route 53
DNS + Health Checks
DNS → CloudFront
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CloudFront CDN
Single distribution · 6 domains · Edge caching · HTTPS/TLS · CF Function
naveedkumbhar.com blog.* cv.* tools.* links.* lab.*
CF Function routes by hostname
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Amazon S3
Static website hosting · Single bucket · 6 subdirectories
/index.html /blog/ /cv/ /tools/ /links/ /lab/
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Amazon S3
Object Storage

All HTML, CSS, JS and assets stored as static files in a single S3 bucket. Zero servers, zero patching, infinite scale.

99.999999999% durability Static website hosting Versioning enabled
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Amazon CloudFront
Global CDN

Single distribution serving 6 domains from 400+ edge locations worldwide. Sub-10ms latency for most visitors. HTTPS enforced everywhere.

400+ edge locations HTTPS/TLS 1 distribution · 6 domains
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Amazon Route 53
DNS Management

Authoritative DNS for naveedkumbhar.com. Alias records point all 6 domains directly to CloudFront with zero TTL overhead.

Alias records (no TTL) 100% SLA uptime Health checks
CloudFront Functions
Edge Compute

Lightweight JavaScript function running at the edge. Routes each subdomain to its correct S3 path based on the Host header — zero latency overhead.

Sub-millisecond execution Viewer-request stage Host-based routing
0
Servers to manage
0
CDN Edge Locations
0
Domains on 1 distribution
0
% Serverless
~$0.01
Estimated monthly cost
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Explore More

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Online CV
cv.naveedkumbhar.com

Full interactive resume — experience, skills, certifications and education in one clean page.

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Technical Blog
blog.naveedkumbhar.com

Practical guides on Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD and cloud-native engineering.

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DevOps Tools
tools.naveedkumbhar.com

Browser-based DevOps utilities — JSON formatter, YAML validator, JWT decoder, cron parser, Base64 and more.

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DevOps Lab
lab.naveedkumbhar.com

Project showcase, architecture diagrams, tech radar, and DevOps experiments from production environments.

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All My Links
links.naveedkumbhar.com

One-stop page for all social, professional, and content links — LinkedIn, GitHub, certifications and more.