Fahad Saleh
Verified Expert in Engineering
Solutions Architect and Developer
Toronto, ON, Canada
Toptal member since July 30, 2022
Fahad is a solutions architect with 8+ years of experience in the software industry, handling DevOps and site reliability engineering. He has managed a fleet of over 48 thousand servers and led tech teams in challenging projects. Passionate about learning new programming languages, he has a diversified tech stack, including Linux, Python, Ruby, Go, Bash, Groovy, and Rust, and he is AWS and Kubernetes certified. Fahad never misses the details when looking into a project's big picture.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Vim Text Editor, Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Architecture
The most amazing...
...work I've done was managing a fleet of 48 thousand servers growing by the day for a hosting company.
Work Experience
DevOps Engineer III
Alliance Data
- Managed a Jenkins cluster handling builds of hundreds of repositories.
- Built numerous platform services for internal teams' use.
- Created standards and development practices to improve developers' agility and efficiency.
DevOps Lead
Cloudways
- Owned the management of a network with over 48+ thousand servers.
- Designed the architecture of critical services and components, helping research and development new features and solutions.
- Conducted interviews and CFR sessions, helped plan quarterly tasks with OKRs, and led a team of 6+ engineers.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Cloudways
- Managed a network of over 18 thousand servers and developed numerous related services.
- Designed and created service infrastructure using Docker, Kubernetes, and several AWS services, such as EC2, S3, IAM, SNS, Lambda, CloudWatch, or RDS.
- Contributed to the research and development of new features and solutions, conducted interviews, and facilitated technical training for the support team.
Linux and DevOps Engineer
PureVPN
- Created a RESTful API using Flask and built a CMS with Django.
- Executed various DevOps tasks, including provisioning, monitoring, orchestration, configuration management, and CI/CD. I also improved and automated the legacy process.
- Wrote technical content on various topics relevant to the internal teams.
Experience
Full CI/CD Pipeline Using Helm and GitHub Actions
https://github.com/ecsumed/k8-ci-cd-using-helmTerraform Script to Automate the Provisioning of a Wireguard Server
https://github.com/ecsumed/terraform-aws/tree/master/wireguardEducation
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
NED University of Engineering and Technology - Karachi, Pakistan
Certifications
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
The Linux Foundation
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional
AWS
AWS Solutions Architect Associate
Amazon Web Services
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Jenkins Pipeline
Tools
Ansible, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Vim Text Editor, VPN, WireGuard, Jenkins, Amazon EKS, Helm, OpenVPN, GitHub, Terraform, Packer, Puppet
Frameworks
Flask, Django
Paradigms
DevOps, Automation
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Linux, Kubernetes, AWS Lambda
Languages
Python, Bash, Groovy, Go
Storage
Datadog
Other
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Orchestration, Cloud, Scalability, CI/CD Pipelines, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Architecture, Programming, Networking, Scheduling, System Administration, High-availability Clusters, Design, AWS Certified Solution Architect, Software Engineering, Web Programming, Costing, Containerization
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