Hameedullah Khan
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Hameedullah is a cloud automation engineer and his main specialty is automating stuff including cloud infrastructure deployments, app deployments, and also simple things like backups. In his free time, he codes web apps either in WordPress or Django.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
PyDev, Git, Vim Text Editor, Linux, Windows
The most amazing...
...work I've done was to implement an OAuth authentication system for Twitter in Python.
Work Experience
Senior DevOps and Cloud Security Engineer
Freelance
- Deployed machine learning workload on AWS EKS, cost-optimized, and secured them, which allowed thousands of farms to benefit from automated spraying.
- Built a cloud security custom solution for AWS IAM.
- Architected and implemented AWS EKS-based infrastructure for molecule discovery machine learning models.
DevOps Engineer
Organixx
- Migrated to multi-cloud architecture using AWS and Azure infrastructure.
- Implemented ChatOps writing custom Microsoft bot builder with Basecamp integration.
- Automated the deployment of infrastructure using cloud-formation and Terraform.
- Implemented CI/CD using Jenkins, Puppet and cloud-formation custom resources.
- Reduced costs of infrastructure by 40%.
- Reduced deployment times from 30 mins to less than one second.
Cloud and DevOps Automation Engineer
Cisco
- Automated an SDN solution using Ansible and Cisco ACI.
- Implemented CI/CD for Ansible and Cisco ACI.
- Architected the virtualization solution for telecommunication customers.
- Created and implemented optimizations for existing Cisco cloud customers.
- Implemented a KVM-based virtualization solution.
DevOps Engineer
Misk Foundation (via Toptal)
- Secured existing AWS infrastructure.
- Implemented and deployed end-to-end AWS infrastructure with Terraform.
- Optimized the Jira deployments to improve performance and reduce costs further.
- Implemented CI/CD using Jenkins and the AWS CI/CD tooleset.
- Automated the provisioning of operating systems and the creation of AMIs using Ansible.
- Helped the development team with deployment pipelines of the new serverless application.
- Reduced AWS bills by 50%.
DevOps Engineer
Trunorth Management, LLC. (via Toptal)
- Secured and managed the existing infrastructure on Rackspace.
- Architected the AWS infrastructure as per well-architected guidelines.
- Migrated the workloads from Rackspace to AWS.
- Improved the infrastructure to handle hyper launches gracefully without crashing.
- Implemented security practices through out the organization and AWS infrastructure.
- Reduced deployment times from 30 minutes to less than one second.
- Implemented CI/CD using Jenkins, Puppet, and CloudFormation.
- Set up cross-region HA for applications.
- Cross-trained different teams on AWS, development, and security best practices.
- Worked with developers to implement best development practices to stabilize the application and eCommerce website.
DevOps Engineer (AWS)
Curology (via Toptal)
- Redesigned the infrastructure to reduce costs.
- Redesigned the infrastructure to increase efficiency.
- Improved security posture of the whole AWS infrastructure.
- Helped the developers team with following best development practices to increase application efficient and stabilize deployments.
- Deployed CI/CD infrastructure using Jenkins.
- Implemented a ChatOps solution with a Slack integration.
Software Engineer
Cisco (via Cloud9 Networks)
- Deployed a Federal cloud solution using Cisco UCSD, PSC and ACI.
- Automated the whole customer infrastructure deployment using Puppet and Cisco IAC.
- Created and developed a custom virtual desktop infrastructure solution.
- Automated the deployment of OpenStack for the development team utilizing Vagrant and DevStack.
- Created a custom solution to automate the data center upgrade including upgrading the Cisco network devices configuration using Python and Django.
Lead Systems Engineer
AddKick
- Implemented the complete infrastructure on AWS.
- Tuned and configured OpenX for best performance at scale to be able to serve ads to millions of users.
- Deployed and configured monitoring solution.
- Wrote custom alert connector in Python to send network management staion alerts to gTalk.
- Built custom backup and backup monitoring scripts in Python for the whole infrastructure.
Senior Technical Consultant
Triana Global
- Provided the management with open source solutions for reducing costs.
- Implemented the whole Triana Global Infrastructure on AWS; migrated Triana Global applications to AWS.
- Migrated the Triana Global Mail service to Zimbra.
- Automated the deployment of applications and backups.
- Implemented bandwidth monitoring.
Senior System Administrator
Affordable Programmers
- Deployed a Xen-based virtualization solution to host customer virtual machines.
- Wrote custom monitoring scripts to monitor different aspects of infrastructure.
- Assisted the team manager in managing the system administration team.
- Wrote migrations scripts to automate the migration of customer applications.
- Improvised a security policy and implemented it.
Systems Engineer
PING Systems
- Created customized Linux Distribution for PING Systems clients.
- Developed a custom mail-server appliance.
- Deployed LTSP solutions for the enterprise clients.
- Provided LTSP solutions to the clients based on their business requirements.
Experience
Wunderlist Python
https://github.com/hameedullah/wunderlist-pythonSkills
Languages
Python, PHP
Tools
GitHub, GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, Amazon EKS, MySQL Performance Tuning, Vim Text Editor, Git, PyDev, Zimbra, Zabbix, Vagrant, Puppet, Chef, Packer, Ansible
Platforms
Linux, WordPress, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Kubernetes, OpenStack, Windows, Xen, LAMP, Rackspace, Azure
Other
Software Development, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, OAuth, Networking, OpenX, Cisco UCS, Cisco, Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI), Consul, Serverless, Cloud, Cloud Security
Frameworks
Django
Libraries/APIs
jQuery, Wunderlist API
Paradigms
DevOps
Storage
MySQL
Certifications
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
HashiCorp
CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator
The Linux Foundation
AWS Certified Developer — Associate (DVA)
AWS
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate
AWS
AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Professional (SAP)
AWS
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer — Professional (DOP)
AWS
Certified Openstack Administrator (COA)
Openstack Foundation
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
AWS
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF)
AWS
Puppet Certified Professional
Puppet
Novell Certified Linux Engineer
Novell
Certified Linux Systems Administrator
LPI
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