Ahsan Gondal, Developer in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

Ahsan Gondal

DevOps Engineer and Developer

Location
Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Toptal Member Since
October 4, 2022

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.

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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 yearsKubernetes - 4 yearsTerraform - 4 yearsContinuous Integration (CI) - 3 yearsAzure - 3 yearsAnsible - 2 yearsFlux - 1 year

Location

Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

Availability

Full-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

2022 - PRESENT

Site Reliability Engineer

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
2020 - 2022

DevOps Architect

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
2016 - 2020

Senior Software Developer | Team Lead

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

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.

Skills

Languages

JavaScript, Java, Python, Go

Frameworks

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

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

Paradigms

Continuous Integration (CI), DevOps, Microservices, 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, Datadog, MongoDB

Other

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

Industry Expertise

Security

Education

2011 - 2015

Bachelor's Degree in Accounting and Finance with Computer Science

Lahore University of Management Sciences - Lahore, Pakistan