Hameedullah Khan, Developer in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Hameedullah Khan

Verified Expert  in Engineering

Software Developer

Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Toptal Member Since
July 11, 2016

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

Freelance
Amazon EKS, Amazon Web Services (AWS), DevOps, Cloud Security
Organixx
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Cisco
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI)...

Experience

Availability

Full-time

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

2019 - PRESENT
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.
Technologies: Amazon EKS, Amazon Web Services (AWS), DevOps, Cloud Security

DevOps Engineer

2018 - 2019
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.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Cloud and DevOps Automation Engineer

2017 - 2019
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.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI), Ansible, Cloud, Cisco

DevOps Engineer

2016 - 2019
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%.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Ansible, Terraform, Packer, Serverless

DevOps Engineer

2016 - 2018
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.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Packer, Consul, Puppet, Rackspace, LAMP

DevOps Engineer (AWS)

2016 - 2016
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.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Software Engineer

2012 - 2016
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.
Technologies: Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI), Cisco, Kubernetes, Chef, Puppet, Python, Vagrant, Docker, OpenStack, Linux, Cisco UCS

Lead Systems Engineer

2009 - 2011
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.
Technologies: OpenX, Python, Zabbix, MySQL, Linux

Senior Technical Consultant

2007 - 2009
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.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Zimbra, Xen, Python, Linux, MySQL

Senior System Administrator

2007 - 2008
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.
Technologies: Xen, PHP, Linux, Python

Systems Engineer

2005 - 2007
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.
Technologies: Python, Linux

Wunderlist Python

https://github.com/hameedullah/wunderlist-python
Developed a Wunderlist API implementation in Python.

AgoraKube

https://github.com/ilkilab/agorakube
Contributed to Kubernetes distribution AgoraKube.

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

JULY 2020 - JULY 2022

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate

HashiCorp

NOVEMBER 2019 - NOVEMBER 2022

CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator

The Linux Foundation

FEBRUARY 2019 - FEBRUARY 2022

AWS Certified Developer — Associate (DVA)

AWS

JANUARY 2019 - JANUARY 2025

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate

AWS

JANUARY 2019 - JANUARY 2022

AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Professional (SAP)

AWS

JANUARY 2019 - JANUARY 2022

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer — Professional (DOP)

AWS

DECEMBER 2018 - DECEMBER 2020

Certified Openstack Administrator (COA)

Openstack Foundation

JUNE 2018 - JANUARY 2025

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

AWS

MAY 2018 - MAY 2021

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF)

AWS

APRIL 2014 - APRIL 2016

Puppet Certified Professional

Puppet

SEPTEMBER 2007 - SEPTEMBER 2010

Novell Certified Linux Engineer

Novell

JANUARY 2006 - JANUARY 2009

Certified Linux Systems Administrator

LPI

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