Babar Baig
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps Developer
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Toptal member since September 14, 2022
Babar is a DevOps and site reliability engineer with over six years of experience in software development across the healthcare, eCommerce, real estate, and services industries. Proficient in AWS, Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, and CI/CD, he is an AWS Certified DevOps professional and an AWS Certified developer associate. Babar has experience working in large organizations and is looking forward to embracing new and challenging projects.
Portfolio
Experience
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 3 years
- AWS DevOps - 3 years
- Terraform - 3 years
- AWS CloudFormation - 2 years
- Amazon EKS - 2 years
- GitLab CI/CD - 2 years
- Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) - 1 year
Work Experience
Site Reliability Engineer II
Careem Networks FZ
- Created Terraform modules to be used in multiple places.
- Helped migrate the application routes to go through the Kong API gateway.
- Introduced ArgoCD for Kubernetes deployment as part of my role.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Empg
- Deployed and managed OLX mall (olx.com.pk/mall), an eCommerce application in AWS.
- Developed and maintained a container-based application in multiple environments.
- Designed and implemented building, deployment, and configuration processes using DevOps best practices and tooling.
DevOps Engineer
NorthBay Solutions
- Designed and implemented AWS CloudFormation for infrastructure provisioning.
- Created CloudFormation modules to provision AWS resources such as networking, S3, compute resources, R53, ASG, VPC endpoints, CloudWatch, ALB, ECS, and Lambda.
- Implemented DevOps best practices for infrastructure as code services and created an AWS architecture diagram for new applications.
Software Engineer
CureMD
- Revamped an application module called FlowSheets. This module, written in Visual Basic, was already available in the application, and I updated it for cross-browser compatibility.
- Fixed several bugs related to core functionality reported by clients.
- Coordinated the team to implement a key feature and ensured its rollout without issues. This process required interaction with other teams like quality assurance (QA).
Project History
Real Estate Application
http://www.propforce.comOLX Mall
http://www.olx.com.pkEducation
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences - Lahore, Pakistan
Certifications
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
AWS Certified Developer - Associate
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Skills
Libraries/APIs
jQuery
Tools
Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, GitLab CI/CD, Amazon EKS, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon CloudWatch, Jenkins, Kibana, GitLab, CircleCI
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), New Relic, Docker, Kubernetes
Languages
Bash Script, Python, SQL, JavaScript, HTML, Bash
Frameworks
ASP.NET
Paradigms
DevOps
Storage
Elasticsearch
Other
CI/CD Pipelines, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), AWS DevOps, AWS VPN
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