
Nabi Vusal
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps Engineer and Developer
Seattle, WA, United States
Toptal member since May 1, 2025
Nabi is a senior DevOps engineer with 10+ years of IT experience and 6+ years in cloud-native platforms, CI/CD automation, and infrastructure as code. Nabi has delivered secure, scalable systems using AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and GitOps across enterprise and startup projects. Known for hands-on problem solving, Nabi has built zero-downtime pipelines and thrives in cross-team collaboration. He holds certifications in AWS, Azure, and Red Hat.
Portfolio
Experience
- SonarQube - 6 years
- Snyk - 6 years
- GitHub - 6 years
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 6 years
- Prometheus - 6 years
- Grafana - 5 years
- Jenkins - 5 years
- Kubernetes - 5 years
Preferred Environment
Jenkins, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Grafana, Prometheus, GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Amazon EKS, Linux, Python, IntelliJ IDEA, Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
The most amazing...
...thing I’ve built is a secure and automated CI/CD pipeline for T-Mobile's 5G Home Internet project—reducing release time and achieving zero-downtime deployments.
Work Experience
Senior DevOps Engineer
T-Mobile
- Engineered multiregion AWS infrastructure with automated failover using CloudFormation and Lambda, ensuring 99.99% availability.
- Deployed platform-level Kubernetes services with readiness probes and horizontal pod autoscaling for self-healing infrastructure.
- Supported DNS, HAProxy load balancing, and wifi infrastructure, reducing latency on the edge network.
- Maintained centralized documentation in Confluence and Git repositories, improving audits and developer onboarding.
- Focused on developer self-service workflows and platform reliability.
DevOps Engineer
T-Mobile
- Managed scalable AWS infrastructure, ensuring high availability and cost efficiency across multi-environment deployments.
- Built secure Docker images with Valgrind checks, reducing runtime memory leaks by 40% and improving test pass rate.
- Automated infrastructure tasks using Terraform, Ansible, Bash, and cron jobs—reducing manual workload by 60%.
- Managed EC2-based environments (Amazon Linux, Ubuntu, CentOS); enabled continuous delivery using GitHub Actions pipelines.
- Built custom Linux OS distributions with Yocto Project, improving system boot time and performance on target hardware.
- Developed cloud-native architecture using Terraform and CloudFormation across multiple client platforms.
- Collaborated with development and QA teams to troubleshoot deployment issues, improving system performance and uptime.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Sigmaways
- Implemented GitOps release pipelines, reducing config errors by 50%.
- Developed standardized CI/CD templates across projects using GitHub Actions and Argo CD.
- Managed AWS WAF and ALB, optimizing protection and response times.
- Enhanced production security and improved access control by implementing role-based access control (RBAC) and network policies with Calico in Amazon EKS.
- Built CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Argo CD, reducing deployment effort by 45% and improving delivery speed.
Senior DevOps Engineer
ARKAS Line
- Architected Jenkins pipelines for microservices using Docker, doubling release speed.
- Monitored Kubernetes clusters using Prometheus and Grafana, reducing mean time to repair (MTTR) by 30%.
- Containerized legacy apps and implemented GitOps for modernized delivery.
- Mentored junior DevOps engineers in CI/CD and IaC best practices.
- Developed backup and disaster recovery plans, cutting recovery time objective (RTO) by 45%.
Experience
Large-scale Kubernetes Cluster Deployment
I also integrated Argo CD and Jenkins to build a robust CI/CD pipeline with automated testing and GitOps-based deployment. I deployed the Istio service mesh for intelligent traffic routing and observability and configured auto-scaling and AWS load balancers to ensure performance under peak loads.
This architecture increased system availability to 99.99%, reduced infrastructure costs by 30%, and scaled traffic handling capacity fourfold without downtime.
High-performance Kubernetes Platform for Telecom Device Management
I architected and maintained a scalable multi-region AWS EKS infrastructure using Terraform and Helm. I also optimized Docker images for edge device performance, implemented horizontal pod autoscaling, and integrated robust monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana.
Enterprise-grade AWS CI/CD Platform with Security Automation
Using Terraform, GitHub Actions, and AWS CodePipeline, I built a scalable infrastructure-as-code foundation that supported continuous integration, automated testing, and blue/green deployment strategies. The solution is integrated with Amazon EKS and Lambda to support microservices, while also leveraging AWS WAF, IAM, and KMS for end-to-end cloud security.
To ensure compliance and vulnerability management, I embedded tools like Snyk, Trivy, and SonarQube directly into the pipeline for automated scanning during every commit. I also implemented detailed logging and observability using CloudWatch, Grafana, and AWS Config to enforce tagging and compliance policies.
Hybrid Cloud DevSecOps Pipeline with On-prem Support
Education
Master’s Degree in Cloud Computing
University of Texas at Austin - Austin, TX, USA
Master's Degree in Computer Engineering
Baku State University - Baku, Azerbaijan
Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics and Information Technology
Baku State University - Baku, Azerbaijan
Certifications
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Amazon Web Services
Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)
Red Hat
Skills
Libraries/APIs
REST APIs, Node.js
Tools
Terraform, GitHub, Git, Docker Hub, AWS IAM, Tableau, IntelliJ IDEA, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), AWS Step Functions, Jenkins, Grafana, SonarQube, AWS Key Management Service (KMS), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Cognito, AWS Mobile SDK, Helm, Confluence, Amazon Athena, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Makefile, NPM, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation, Spacelift, Splunk, Amazon EKS, Grafana k6
Languages
Python, YAML, Java, Bash
Paradigms
DevOps, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Integration (CI), DevSecOps, Role-based Access Control (RBAC), Automation
Platforms
Amazon, Kubernetes, AWS IoT, Docker, Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu, Amazon EC2, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Lambda, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Azure, Rancher, Red Hat Linux, New Relic
Storage
Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Amazon DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Azure Cloud Services, Azure Storage, On-premise
Other
CI/CD Pipelines, AWS Kubernetes, RHEL, DevOps Engineer, Data Visualization, AWS DevOps, Virtualization, Amazon EventBridge, Kubernetes Security, Prometheus, Argo CD, Ansible Playbooks, AWS Cloud Security, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Snyk, Scripting, Kubernetes API, Security Automation, AWS Config, Trivy, AWS CodePipeline, Terraform Cloud, GitHub Actions, DHCP, GitOps, AWS WAF, Linux System Administration, AWS Load Balancer, Incident Management, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Azure Virtual Machines, Incident Response, SysOps, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator, AWS Certified Solution Architect, Cloud Architecture, Distributed Systems, Yocto
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