Babar Baig, Developer in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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Babar Baig

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DevOps Developer

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Toptal member since September 14, 2022

Expertise
TerraformAWSAWS DevOpsDevOpsKubernetesPythonJenkinsElasticsearchSQLJavaScriptjQuery
Bio

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

Careem Networks FZ
Amazon EKS, Terraform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), GitLab, CI/CD Pipelines...
Empg
AWS DevOps, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon EKS, Bash, Kibana, Terraform...
NorthBay Solutions
AWS DevOps, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Bash, Terraform...

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

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

GitHub, GitLab, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon EKS, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), CircleCI, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Kubernetes, AWS DevOps

The most amazing...

...thing I've done was deploy an eCommerce application in AWS with ECS and later migrate it to Amazon EKS.

Work Experience

Site Reliability Engineer II

2022 - 2022
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.
Technologies: Amazon EKS, Terraform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), GitLab, CI/CD Pipelines, Kubernetes, DevOps, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer

2020 - 2022
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.
Technologies: AWS DevOps, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon EKS, Bash, Kibana, Terraform, Docker, CI/CD Pipelines, Kubernetes, DevOps, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

2019 - 2020
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.
Technologies: AWS DevOps, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Bash, Terraform, DevOps

Software Engineer

2016 - 2019
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).
Technologies: ASP.NET, SQL, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML

Experience

Real Estate Application

http://www.propforce.com
Built components for a Node.js-based application deployed in a Kubernetes cluster, using a Jenkins pipeline. The infrastructure was created via Terraform in AWS and integrated with NewRelic for monitoring and observability.

OLX Mall

http://www.olx.com.pk
An eCommerce application under the name of OLX Group was launched in Pakistan and Lebanon in 2021. I created their infrastructure using Terraform. Built the application CI/CD using CircleCI and deployed it in Amazon ECS, and then moved to Amazon EKS. They had to shut it down because they could not generate profits and could not capture the market due to the already present high competition.

Education

2012 - 2016

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences - Lahore, Pakistan

Certifications

APRIL 2022 - APRIL 2025

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional

AWS

MAY 2019 - APRIL 2025

AWS Certified Developer Associate

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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