Muhammad Ahmad

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DevOps Engineer with an M.Sc. in Software Systems Science and strong expertise in infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipeline engineering, and cloud architecture. Experienced in designing resilient, highly automated AWS environments using Terraform and building secure deployment pipelines with GitHub Actions. Demonstrated ability to streamline application delivery through containerization with Docker, optimize cloud infrastructure costs, and eliminate manual deployment overhead. Seeking to contribute deep technical execution and an automation-first mindset to a DevOps engineering team.

Work Experience

Cloud Engineer(Part Time) | Tecsofiy (Remote / Lahore, Pakistan) 2023–2025

Migrated on-premises workloads and client applications over to AWS across 5 projects, architecting secure, isolated VPC configurations, EC2 fleets, and scoped IAM access policies
Developed and maintained reusable Terraform modules to standardize infrastructure deployments across teams, reducing manual deployment errors in staging
Containerized microservices with Docker, creating optimized configurations for local development and test environments.
Engineered multi-repository CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, automating artifact builds through cloud infrastructure provisioning.
Monitored cloud infrastructure performance and costs via CloudWatch metrics and custom alerting, contributing to ~20% reduction in cloud infrastructure costs through resource optimization.
Participated in daily standups within a 7-person Agile team, coordinating progress across multiple client projects

Projects

Static Site Hosting & CDN

Deployed a portfolio site on AWS S3 with scoped bucket policies for public read access.
Configured AWS CloudFront as CDN to enforce HTTPS, cache assets at edge locations, and reduce latency
Managed custom domain with SSL/TLS via Route 53 and AWS Certificate Manager (ACM).

Serverless Backend API

Built a visitor-counter microservice using Python on AWS Lambda function.
Exposed the service through AWS HTTP API Gateway with CORS configuration.
Implemented DynamoDB storage with atomic update expressions for concurrent write safety

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Codified the complete serverless backend from manual AWS Console setup into Terraform configurations
Configured remote state storage with locking on S3 for safe, shareable Terraform state management

CI/CD Pipelines

Automated frontend and backend deployments via GitHub Actions workflows, eliminating error-prone manual release steps and reducing deployment friction
Replaced long-lived AWS access keys with OpenID Connect (OIDC) for short-lived, scoped IAM role assumption.
Configured automated S3 sync and CloudFront cache invalidation triggered on every push to main

Technical Skills

Cloud: AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, Lambda, VPC, CloudFront, Route53, ACM, DynamoDB, API Gateway, CloudWatch)

Languages: Python, Javascript, Bash

OS & Networking: Linux CLI, TCP/IP, DNS, SSH

IaC & CI/CD: Terraform, Github Actions, OIDC, GitLab CI

Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes (Foundational)

Version Control: Git

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