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Ahsan Gondal

Verified Expert in Engineering

DevOps Engineer and Developer

Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

Toptal member since October 4, 2022

Expertise

DNS SaaS Site Reliability Azure Cloudflare Node.js GitHub Docker JavaScript Redis Microservices Development Kubernetes Terraform Jira PostgreSQL Jenkins

Bio

Ahsan is a seasoned DevOps and software engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the computer networking industry. For over seven years, he has worked remotely out of Lahore, Pakistan, with companies based in the US and Canada. Ahsan is continuously looking for new challenges and takes an eager interest in solving problems. His main hobby is automation, and this passion has transitioned to his superb performance in DevOps.

Portfolio

Mailerlite

Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Helm, Kubernetes, Flux, Terraform, Ansible, Python...

Teammate Technology

Azure, Ansible, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Go, Linux, SIP, Java, VoIP...

Cisco

Node.js, AngularJS, Terraform, Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes...

Experience

Node.js - 7 years
Terraform - 4 years
Kubernetes - 4 years
Continuous Integration (CI) - 3 years
Azure - 3 years
Ansible - 2 years
Flux - 1 year

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

MacOS, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), iTerm2, GitLab CI/CD

The most amazing...

...decision I made is transitioning into tech despite majoring in finance, which has resulted in exemplified work with amazing mentors from around the globe.

Work Experience

Site Reliability Engineer

2022 - PRESENT

Mailerlite

Reworked the entire monitoring stack and made it more scalable while allowing the addition of new rules and modifications quickly and smoothly.
Managed the production of Kubernetes clusters daily, serving hundreds of thousands of customers.
Rewrote legacy apps and transitioned them to Kubernetes to work more seamlessly.

Technologies: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Helm, Kubernetes, Flux, Terraform, Ansible, Python, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Deployment, ELK (Elastic Stack), Node.js, GitHub, Cloudflare, DevOps, Prometheus, RabbitMQ, CI/CD Pipelines, Docker, DNS, Content Delivery Networks (CDN), Docker Hub, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Datadog, APIs, Design Patterns, Architecture, SaaS, JavaScript, Redis, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Grafana, Microservices, Autoscaling, Load Balancers, Infrastructure, Networking, Monitoring, Security, Bash, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Cloud Security

DevOps Architect

2020 - 2022

Teammate Technology

Scaled the infrastructure from two virtual machines to more than 50 virtual machines and Kubernetes clusters.
Established custom monitoring to identify Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) bottlenecks and problems faster to avoid customer outages and detect problems more quickly.
Optimized and automated the deployment of new system components, reducing deployment and configuration time from a day to an hour.

Technologies: Azure, Ansible, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Go, Linux, SIP, Java, VoIP, Continuous Integration (CI), ELK (Elastic Stack), Node.js, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Amazon Web Services (AWS), GitHub, Amazon EKS, Amazon EC2, DevOps, Jira, Prometheus, RabbitMQ, CI/CD Pipelines, Docker, DNS, Docker Hub, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), APIs, Design Patterns, Architecture, SaaS, JavaScript, Redis, PostgreSQL, Grafana, Microservices, Autoscaling, Load Balancers, Infrastructure, Networking, Monitoring, Security, Bash, Azure DevOps, Azure Virtual Networks, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Cloud Security, Web Application Firewall (WAF), Azure Active Directory

Senior Software Developer | Team Lead

2016 - 2020

Cisco

Developed an app, Broadsoft Hub, from scratch, which served thousands of users, including telecom giants.
Joined as the most junior developer in the team and eventually became the team lead for the entire team consisting of twelve people around the globe.
Trusted to architect the system and was involved in solving major challenges with scalability, including a particularly complex memory leak.
Joined on a six-month contract but resulted in a five year-long tenure.

Technologies: Node.js, AngularJS, Terraform, Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Sails.js, GitHub, Docker, Jenkins, DNS, Docker Hub, New Relic, APIs, Design Patterns, Architecture, SaaS, JavaScript, Redis, Grafana, Microservices, Monitoring, Bash, Cloud Security

Experience

Teammate Technology

http://teammatetechnology.com

The project entailed orchestrating the environment for the direct routing service to the Microsoft Teams offering provided by the company. I held the sole responsibility of the project, which included implementing infrastructure, orchestration automation, automating configuration management, monitoring, and extensive alerting and debugging tools. The project also incorporated writing custom exporters and applets to integrate with the services to link components together and extract useful information for troubleshooting.

Architecture Consulting for Glance

https://voipglance.com/

The core problem was that the web app was running exceptionally slowly and crashing. The objective was to review the entire codebase and infrastructure, identify bottlenecks and problems, and fix issues.

In one month, I was able to redefine the way apps were deployed and improved performance and speed issues. There has not been a single outage ever since. I also implemented monitoring via victoria metrics and cost optimization on AWS.

Education

2011 - 2015

Bachelor's Degree in Accounting and Finance with Computer Science

Lahore University of Management Sciences - Lahore, Pakistan

Skills

Libraries/APIs

Node.js

Tools

Terraform, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), GitHub, Amazon EKS, Jira, Jenkins, Docker Hub, Grafana, Ansible, ELK (Elastic Stack), Helm, RabbitMQ, GitLab CI/CD, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Languages

JavaScript, Java, Python, Bash, Go

Frameworks

Flux, AngularJS, Spring Boot, Sails.js, Laravel, Angular

Paradigms

Continuous Integration (CI), DevOps, Microservices, Azure DevOps, Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Deployment, Design Patterns

Platforms

Kubernetes, Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon EC2, Docker, New Relic, Linux

Storage

Redis, PostgreSQL, Azure Active Directory, Datadog, MongoDB

Other

Prometheus, Cloudflare, CI/CD Pipelines, DNS, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), APIs, SaaS, Infrastructure, Monitoring, Azure Virtual Networks, Content Delivery Networks (CDN), Architecture, Autoscaling, Load Balancers, Networking, Security, Cloud Security, Web Application Firewall (WAF), iTerm2, Finance, Computer Science, SIP, VoIP

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