Ahsan Gondal
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps Engineer and Developer
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
Experience
Availability
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
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.
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.
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.
Experience
Teammate Technology
http://teammatetechnology.comArchitecture Consulting for Glance
https://voipglance.com/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, Bash, 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, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
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
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Accounting and Finance with Computer Science
Lahore University of Management Sciences - Lahore, Pakistan
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