Meezaan-ud-Din is available for hire

Meezaan-ud-Din Abdu Dhil-Jalali Wal-Ikram

Verified Expert in Engineering

Solutions Architect and Software Developer

Location

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Toptal Member Since

July 27, 2022

Meezaan-ud-Din is a hands-on technical leader and strategist with entrepreneurial flair and 20 years of technology experience across architecture and engineering. He has real-world experience in multiple technology stacks and major hyperscale and alternate cloud providers and an in-depth understanding of the web and mobile industries. He has built startups and driven digital and cultural transformations at enterprises like Emirates, Giffgaff, O2, Panasonic, and MasterCard.

Portfolio

Mamluk

Akamai, PHP, React, Cloud, Cloudflare, Linode, DNS, GeoIP, Amazon EKS...

Kubernetes, Linode, NGINX, CouchDB, Memcached, Redis, Kong, NestJS, PHP, Slim...

Blomstra

PHP, Azure, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure SQL Databases, Concourse CI...

Experience

PHP - 18 years Web Development - 18 years Software Development - 18 years CI/CD Pipelines - 8 years Amazon EKS - 5 years Kubernetes - 5 years NGINX - 4 years Kong - 4 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Vim Text Editor, PhpStorm, IntelliJ IDEA

The most amazing...

...experience and learning I've had are building and maintaining open-source services and a CDN under the Islamic Network used by millions of people globally.

Work Experience

Managing Director

2022 - PRESENT

Mamluk

Developed a rapid API Development Kit (ADK) called Kipchak for quickly building production-ready, scalable APIs.
Built a Bring Your Own Load Balancer (BYOLB) utility for managed Kubernetes clusters, including Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
Developed a geographical domain name system (GeoDNS) utility to define GeoDNS records with Zilore DNS declaratively.

Technologies: Akamai, PHP, React, Cloud, Cloudflare, Linode, DNS, GeoIP, Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, System Administration, OAuth 2, Keycloak, JSON Web Key Set (JWKS), API/Services Architecture, OpenAPI, Docker Compose, Strategic Planning, API Integration, IaaS, PHP 7, Payment APIs

CTO

2022 - PRESENT

7x

Built a React application that uses OIDC/OAuth and interfaces with CouchDB to allow users to manage their API keys.
Completed a GitOps upline to provision API consumers and keys across globally distributed clusters.
Designed and coded all the APIs currently available through the 7x marketplace.
Configured the infrastructure, Kubernetes clusters, and DNS and database clusters to distribute the API ecosystem across three continents.

Technologies: Kubernetes, Linode, NGINX, CouchDB, Memcached, Redis, Kong, NestJS, PHP, Slim, Laravel, React, GitHub Actions, OAuth 2, Keycloak, OpenID Connect (OIDC), DNS, API Gateways, OAuth, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Architecture, Automation, eCommerce, Container Orchestration, Orchestration, API Design, GitHub, Azure, Terraform, Web Application Firewall (WAF), Azure Active Directory, Load Balancers, Cloud Security, Azure Virtual Networks, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Development (CD), Scalability, High Availability Disaster Recovery (HADR), DDoS, Containerization, Git, Helm, Bash Script, SolarWinds, Data Engineering, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), RESTful Services, Security, System Administration, IT Infrastructure, SMTP, Web Servers, RESTful Microservices, Microservices, Cloud Architecture, DevSecOps, Software Architecture, Containers, Kubernetes Operations (kOps), IT Operations Management (ITOM), AWS Fargate, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), DevOps Engineer, Oracle Cloud, TypeScript, Apache, Ubuntu, SSL Certificates, SSL Configurations, Cloud Infrastructure, Control & Cost Analysis, Database Performance, Back-end Performance, SQL, VM, OpenID, Identity, Google Cloud SDK, Software Engineering, Cloud Engineering, SIEM, TCP/IP, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), JSON Web Tokens (JWT), LAMP, Serverless Architecture, Microservices Architecture, Content Delivery Networks (CDN), Performance Tuning, ECS, Monitoring, Performance Analysis, Team Leadership, Virtual Machines, Technical Documentation, Technical Leadership, API/Services Architecture, OpenAPI, Docker Compose, Strategic Planning, API Integration, Next.js, PHP 7, Payment APIs

Co-founder

2021 - PRESENT

Blomstra

Developed the entire GitOps and CI/CD ecosystems to seamlessly deploy customer instances of the SaaS platform onto Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
Built cloud-neutral CI/CD pipelines to switch between Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and AKS with a configuration change and a re-run of the pipelines within minutes.
Developed and implemented our multi-cloud strategy to achieve cost savings and efficiencies for internal and external applications.
Defined our single sign-on (SSO) strategy and implemented Red Hat's Keycloak to deal with multi-instance user requirements.
Addressed and configured the issue of scalability and auto-scaling, so we deploy the same codebase with a different configuration that auto-scales and changes based on traffic to each SaaS instance, whether serving 2 or 500 users at a time.
Attended venture capitalist sessions to raise money. Ultimately, the co-founders decided to self-fund the business.

Technologies: PHP, Azure, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure SQL Databases, Concourse CI, Keycloak, Harbor, Quay, CI/CD Pipelines, GitOps, Prometheus, Grafana, Graylog, Linode, Percona, Galera Cluster, Redis Clusters, DevOps, Azure DevOps, DNS, Identity & Access Management (IAM), OAuth, OpenID Connect (OIDC), OAuth 2, Architecture, Automation, eCommerce, Container Orchestration, Orchestration, API Design, GitHub, Terraform, Web Application Firewall (WAF), Azure Active Directory, Load Balancers, Cloud Security, Azure Virtual Networks, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Development (CD), Scalability, VPN, High Availability Disaster Recovery (HADR), DDoS, Containerization, Git, New Relic, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), RESTful Services, Security, System Administration, IT Infrastructure, SMTP, Networking, Web Servers, Cloud Architecture, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), DevSecOps, Software Architecture, Containers, Kubernetes Operations (kOps), Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), IT Operations Management (ITOM), Amazon S3 (AWS S3), DevOps Engineer, TypeScript, Apache, Ubuntu, SSL Certificates, SSL Configurations, Cloud Infrastructure, Control & Cost Analysis, Google Cloud, Database Performance, Back-end Performance, SQL, VM, Google Cloud SQL, Google Cloud Storage, Google Cloud Functions, OpenID, Identity, Google Cloud SDK, Software Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Policy as code (PaC), SIEM, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), JSON Web Tokens (JWT), LAMP, Content Delivery Networks (CDN), Cloudflare, Performance Tuning, Monitoring, Performance Analysis, Team Leadership, Virtual Machines, Technical Documentation, Technical Leadership, Event-driven Architecture, API/Services Architecture, OpenAPI, Docker Compose, Strategic Planning, IaaS, PHP 7, Payment APIs

Principal Architect

2019 - PRESENT

Emirates Airline

Completed the move from on-premise to public cloud (AWS), from monolith to microservices, and built the blueprint to move from OpenShift to geographically distributed Kubernetes (using Amazon EKS) at Emirates.
Overhauled the digital portfolio as part of the agile transformation. Tasked with setting and rolling out the medium-term strategy for how digital, customer identity and access management (CIAM), and online payments should evolve.
Defined the microservices and containerization strategy and led the implementation of our microservices component framework to Bootstrap microservices in hours and days instead of weeks and months.
Led the strategy and boilerplating of code to break the monolithic online booking application into microservices. This application generates a large percentage of the group's revenue, making it one of the region's largest eCommerce websites.
Redefined the strategy and implementation for customer identification, authentication, and authorization across the digital estate so customers can have a seamless experience across all web and mobile applications.
Challenged existing processes and architecture daily and continuously tried to bring about a cultural change by being the change itself.
Chaired and led a task force for API and event-streaming economy initiatives to normalize the usage of millions of events and API calls across the ecosystem and leverage existing data and functionality to deliver real customer value.
Defined a GitOps and automation strategy for digital across a complex mix of technologies, authentication challenges, and diverse skill sets.

Technologies: Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, Amazon EKS, Couchbase, Amazon RDS, Java, Node.js, React, NestJS, Varnish, NGINX, Solace, Kong, Apigee, DevOps, AWS DevOps, API Gateways, Event-driven Architecture, Architecture, Automation, Azure, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), AWS Cloud Architecture, Microservices, Full-stack Development, Full-stack, GraphQL, Solution Architecture, eCommerce, Container Orchestration, Orchestration, API Design, GitHub, Terraform, Web Application Firewall (WAF), Azure Active Directory, Load Balancers, Cloud Security, Azure Virtual Networks, ServiceNow, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Development (CD), Scalability, VPN, High Availability Disaster Recovery (HADR), DDoS, Enterprise Architecture, Containerization, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon EC2, AWS NAT Gateway, Git, Jira, Confluence, Helm, Bash Script, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), RESTful Services, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), Spring Boot, Security, System Administration, IT Infrastructure, SMTP, Networking, Web Servers, RESTful Microservices, Cloud Architecture, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Akamai, Amazon Route 53, DevSecOps, Software Architecture, Containers, Kubernetes Operations (kOps), Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), IT Operations Management (ITOM), On-premise, AWS Fargate, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Apache Kafka, DevOps Engineer, Splunk, TypeScript, Ubuntu, SSL Certificates, SSL Configurations, Cloud Infrastructure, Control & Cost Analysis, Database Performance, Back-end Performance, Prisma, SQL, VM, OpenID, Identity, Software Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Vault, Service Mesh, Policy as code (PaC), SIEM, TCP/IP, JSON Web Tokens (JWT), Serverless Architecture, AWS Lambda, Microservices Architecture, Amazon ElastiCache, Content Delivery Networks (CDN), Amazon CloudFront CDN, Performance Tuning, ECS, Argo CD, Monitoring, Performance Analysis, Team Leadership, Virtual Machines, Technical Documentation, Technical Leadership, Amazon Aurora, API/Services Architecture, OpenAPI, Docker Compose, Amazon Lightsail, Strategic Planning, OpenShift, API Integration, Retail & Wholesale, Omnichannel Marketing, Sales & Channel Enablement, Channels, IaaS, Strapi, Next.js, Mobile Payments, Payment APIs, AWS ALB, AWS CLI, AWS IAM

Technical Solution Architect

2017 - 2019

Giffgaff

Led the development and migration of the UK's largest community platform from Khoros to open-source Flarum.
Developed several microservices as candidates to start the journey of breaking down a 10-year-old monolith into microservices with micro front ends.
Started the first implementation of event-driven architecture in the web and mobile space at giffgaff.
Developed the GDPR utility to clean all Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL databases and comply with GDPR's right-to-be-forgotten mandate.

Technologies: PHP, React, Apache2, Amazon RDS, Amazon EKS, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Packer, Ansible, Jenkins, Red Hat OpenShift, Debian Linux, NGINX, Gatling, Flarum, Zend Framework, Java, Oracle, MySQL, Architecture, Automation, Solution Architecture, eCommerce, Container Orchestration, Orchestration, API Design, GitHub, Terraform, Web Application Firewall (WAF), Load Balancers, Cloud Security, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Development (CD), Scalability, VPN, DDoS, Containerization, Amazon EC2, Git, Jira, Confluence, Helm, Data Engineering, Data Analytics, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), RESTful Services, Amazon CloudWatch, ELK (Elastic Stack), Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Spring Boot, Security, System Administration, IT Infrastructure, Web Servers, RESTful Microservices, Microservices, Cloud Architecture, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Amazon Route 53, AWS Cloud Architecture, Software Architecture, Containers, Kubernetes Operations (kOps), Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), IT Operations Management (ITOM), DevOps Engineer, TypeScript, Apache, Ubuntu, SSL Certificates, SSL Configurations, Cloud Infrastructure, Database Performance, Back-end Performance, SQL, DevOps, VM, OpenID, Identity, Software Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Vault, Service Mesh, Policy as code (PaC), SIEM, TCP/IP, JSON Web Tokens (JWT), LAMP, Microservices Architecture, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon ElastiCache, Content Delivery Networks (CDN), Amazon CloudFront CDN, Performance Tuning, ECS, Monitoring, Performance Analysis, Microsoft SQL Server, Team Leadership, Virtual Machines, Technical Documentation, Technical Leadership, Amazon Aurora, Event-driven Architecture, API/Services Architecture, OpenAPI, Docker Compose, OpenShift, API Integration, Retail & Wholesale, Omnichannel Marketing, Sales & Channel Enablement, Channels, Mobile Payments, PHP 7, Payment APIs, AWS ALB, AWS CLI, AWS IAM

Principal Digital Architect

2016 - 2017

O2

Rebuilt the infrastructure and content management system (CMS) with Drupal and Acquia that powers the o2.co.uk website for desktop and mobile experiences.
Headed two development teams to implement Drupal as part of O2's omni-channel strategy.
Implemented extreme programming (XP) practices with the development teams to improve the quality of work.

Technologies: Drupal 8, JavaScript, PHP, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Acquia Cloud, Cloudflare, Apache Velocity, Symfony 3, Solution Architecture, eCommerce, Orchestration, API Design, GitHub, Web Application Firewall (WAF), Load Balancers, Cloud Security, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Development (CD), Scalability, DDoS, Enterprise Architecture, Containerization, Amazon EC2, Git, Confluence, Bash Script, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), RESTful Services, Security, System Administration, IT Infrastructure, Web Servers, RESTful Microservices, Cloud Architecture, AWS Cloud Architecture, Software Architecture, Containers, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), IT Operations Management (ITOM), Amazon S3 (AWS S3), DevOps Engineer, Apache, Ubuntu, SSL Certificates, SSL Configurations, Cloud Infrastructure, Database Performance, Back-end Performance, SQL, DevOps, VM, Software Engineering, Cloud Engineering, TCP/IP, LAMP, Amazon ElastiCache, Content Delivery Networks (CDN), Amazon CloudFront CDN, Performance Tuning, Monitoring, Team Leadership, Virtual Machines, Technical Documentation, Technical Leadership, Amazon Aurora, Docker Compose, Retail & Wholesale, Omnichannel Marketing, Sales & Channel Enablement, Channels, Mobile Payments, PHP 7, Payment APIs

Senior Software Engineering Consultant

2015 - 2016

Mastercard UK

Developed and enhanced the APIs used by retail credit card terminals to get firmware and software updates worldwide. These could generate up to 4,000 requests a second.
Collaborated with the integration team to integrate multiple payment gateways under one as the Mastercard payment gateway service.
Implemented CI/CD for our own APIs and applications and integrated them with the larger gateway CI/CD builds to ensure seamless deployments across 1,700 applications which, for legacy reasons, were coupled together.

Technologies: PHP, JavaScript, Apache2, Linux, MySQL, Datadog, Rally, OAuth 2, OpenSSL, DevOps, CI/CD Pipelines, Jenkins, Capistrano, eCommerce, Orchestration, API Design, Load Balancers, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Scalability, Git, Bash Script, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), RESTful Services, GitLab, Security, System Administration, IT Infrastructure, Web Servers, RESTful Microservices, Software Architecture, IT Operations Management (ITOM), On-premise, Splunk, Apache, Ubuntu, SSL Certificates, SSL Configurations, Database Performance, Back-end Performance, SQL, VM, Software Engineering, SIEM, RabbitMQ, Puppet, Virtual Machines, Technical Documentation, Technical Leadership, PHP 7

Principal Engineer

2014 - 2015

Springer Nature

Modernized and upgraded more than 30 Nature Publishing Group's LAMP stack websites and applications to the latest technology stack at the time with CI/CD pipelines.
Worked diligently to incorporate XP and CI practices throughout the development lifecycle.
Coached and worked alongside the head product management and scrum masters to refine and better implement an Agile approach for all LAMP development.

Technologies: WordPress, PHP, Jenkins, Webistrano, Apache2, Vagrant, DevOps, CI/CD Pipelines, Container Orchestration, Orchestration, API Design, GitHub, Load Balancers, Cloud Security, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Scalability, Git, Jira, Confluence, Bash Script, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), RESTful Services, System Administration, IT Infrastructure, Web Servers, RESTful Microservices, Software Architecture, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), IT Operations Management (ITOM), On-premise, DevOps Engineer, Apache, Ubuntu, SSL Certificates, SSL Configurations, Database Performance, Back-end Performance, SQL, VM, Software Engineering, LAMP, Virtual Machines, Technical Documentation, Technical Leadership, PHP 7

Chief Technology Officer

2010 - 2015

Vesica

Assisted in raising the initial funding for this startup to build a pure SaaS-based offering for museums and galleries to digitally manage and exhibit their collections.
Built software and infrastructure teams based in Pakistan and Serbia, developed the architecture, and delivered the application on time and within budget.
Defined the overall business strategy and product roadmap. In 2015, we decided to wind up the business because we could not gain a sufficient number of large clients to sustain the quality and pace of the product we wanted to offer.

Technologies: PHP, JavaScript, Linode, CentOS, Apache2, MySQL, Percona, Clustering, Memcached, Leadership, Venture Capital, Seed Fundraising, DigitalOcean, DNS, jQuery, eCommerce, API Design, GitHub, Load Balancers, Cloud Security, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Scalability, Git, Bash Script, SolarWinds, Google Workspace, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), RESTful Services, ELK (Elastic Stack), GitLab, Security, System Administration, IT Infrastructure, SMTP, Networking, Web Servers, RESTful Microservices, Cloud Architecture, Software Architecture, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), IT Operations Management (ITOM), On-premise, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), DevOps Engineer, Apache, Ubuntu, SSL Certificates, SSL Configurations, Cloud Infrastructure, Control & Cost Analysis, Database Performance, Back-end Performance, SQL, Windows, VM, Software Engineering, SIEM, LAMP, Content Delivery Networks (CDN), Team Leadership, Virtual Machines, Technical Documentation, Technical Leadership, Strategic Planning, Sales & Channel Enablement, PHP 5, PHP 7

Lead Developer

2013 - 2014

Home Office

Delivered multiple multi-million-pound projects to enable the Home Office to better meet the security needs of the government.
Introduced and led the implementation of multiple automation techniques and XP practices across another slow-moving culture.
Mentored and trained the team I worked in to better understand how code is productionized, including setting up and hardening Linux servers.

Technologies: PHP, JavaScript, WordPress, Drupal, Linux, API Design, Git, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), IT Infrastructure, Web Servers, Software Architecture, IT Operations Management (ITOM), Database Performance, Back-end Performance, SQL, Windows, Software Engineering, LAMP, Technical Documentation, PHP 5, PHP 7

Senior Developer

2013 - 2013

Open University

Co-authored the Open Design Studio module for Moodle, a Pinterest-equivalent built into Moodle courses for general release into the Moodle community.
Authored the alert plugin, a reporting system to track and manage abusive content across Moodle courses and modules for general release into the Moodle community.
Wrote first major unit tests for the Open University's contributed modules using Moodle's new PHPUnit integration to deploy test-driven development (TDD) across all development teams.

Technologies: Moodle, Linux, JavaScript, PHP, Drupal, Git, Redmine, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Web Servers, Software Architecture, IT Operations Management (ITOM), Apache, Back-end Performance, SQL, Windows, Software Engineering, LAMP, Technical Documentation, PHP 5, PHP 7

Senior Developer

2013 - 2013

TripAdvisor

Developed and deployed back-end tools to help the customer service and finance staff administer holidaylettings.co.uk.
Designed enterprise-level architecture for applications with RESTful services to use across multiple departments, organizations, and platforms across TripAdvisor.
Developed a suite of end-to-end integration tests to ensure customer interactions flow into the back-end systems and vice versa.

Technologies: PHP, JavaScript, Ext JS, Sencha UI, Git, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), IT Operations Management (ITOM), Apache, Back-end Performance, SQL, Windows, Software Engineering, LAMP, Technical Documentation, PHP 5, PHP 7

Senior Developer

2012 - 2013

NHS Digital

Drove project management and architecture of new development for critical Pathways directory-of-services (DoS) system used by 999 and 111 services across England.
Rewrote existing and developed new accurate search and data extraction algorithms to deal with patient symptoms and redirect them as soon as possible over the phone.
Mentored and trained the existing NHS team on Linux, virtualization, and the LAMP stack.

Technologies: PHP, JavaScript, Apache2, Linux, MySQL, OpenLDAP, Google Maps API, API Design, Git, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), IT Operations Management (ITOM), Apache, Back-end Performance, SQL, Windows, Software Engineering, LAMP, Technical Documentation, PHP 5, PHP 7

Technical Director

2009 - 2012

Vesica Interactive

Hired and built an in-house software team with a mix of onshore and offshore developers.
Established relationships with various data centers and infrastructure providers for highly scalable client applications.
Managed and delivered projects for international clients like Panasonic, Hotcam, RokPool, and boutique agencies like Walden Page Ballard and Bull Rodger.

Technologies: JavaScript, PHP, ASP.NET, Apache2, Linux, cPanel, CentOS, API Design, Git, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), RESTful Services, IT Infrastructure, IT Operations Management (ITOM), Apache, Back-end Performance, SQL, Windows, VM, Software Engineering, LAMP, Technical Documentation, Sales & Channel Enablement, PHP 5, PHP 7

Systems Accountant

2008 - 2009

Travelport

Streamlined a monthly financial close process between multiple systems, currencies, or countries.
Developed various Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and Excel applications to communicate with Hyperion and SQL Server.
Wrote procedure documents and SQL queries to import and export data from the IBM AS/400 to JD Edwards, Hyperion, and Oracle Financials.

Technologies: Hyperion Financial Management, JD Edwards

Managing Partner

2005 - 2007

Ingenium Partners

Worked with various clients to design solutions and software architecture based on open-source applications.
Managed client relationships and offshore development teams in India and Pakistan.
Developed web and software applications and user interfaces to assist offshore teams and ensure projects were completed on time.

Technologies: PHP, JavaScript, Java, ASP.NET, OpenERP, QuickBooks Advance Reporting, Bash Script, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), IT Infrastructure, SMTP, Networking, Software Engineering

Financial Controller

2004 - 2005

TAEUS

Oversaw the accounting department of four accountants and the company's overall financials of up to $12 million.
Managed global forecast, budgeting, and project delivery on the budget for clients like HP, Sony, LG Electronics, and Dolby.
Developed architecture for an in-house project management application upgrade on FileMaker.

Technologies: Peachtree Accounting Software

Information System Lab Instructor | LMS Developer

2003 - 2004

University of Colorado – Colorado Springs

Analyzed requirements of a new website and prepared requirement specification documents to get approval for the new website and Moodle-based learning management system (LMS).
Collaborated with a co-developer, program director, and faculty to design, code, and implement the new website and intranet.
Conducted classes to instruct and train students on using Microsoft technologies and basic web development.

Technologies: PHP, HTML, CSS, Excel VBA, IT Infrastructure, Networking, Windows, LAMP

Experience

Linode LKE Auto-scaler

https://github.com/meezaan/linode-k8s-autoscaler

A Kubernetes auto-scaler, which, unlike the default Kubernetes auto-scaler, scales workers nodes in advance so that when the HorizontalPodAutoscaler kicks in, there is the capacity to spin up new pods rather than having to wait for a new worker node to come up.

The project only has a provider for Linode but can be extended to support DigitalOcean, Vultr, AWS, etc.

Islamic Network

https://islamic.network

A large collection of open-source libraries, web applications, mobile applications (coming soon), and APIs used by millions of developers and users across the world. I have also built our content delivery network (CDN). Our APIs operate in three global regions and use a relational data store. On a busy day, the Islamic Network APIs can serve over 900 requests a second, and the CDN can serve over 1TB of data. Virtually every component that supports the Islamic Network ecosystem is containerized.

The various projects and libraries have hundreds of starts and forks on GitHub.

Until 2022, I have been the sole developer of the Islamic Network. Other community members are getting involved as we start work on our mobile apps.

AlAdhan API

https://aladhan.com/prayer-times-api

A prayer times API developed and deployed via fully automated pipelines on CircleCI and hosted on Kubernetes. It serves hundreds of concurrent requests, is deployed in three global regions, and uses a relational datastore and aggressive caching.

Skills

Languages

PHP, PHP 5, PHP 7, JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL, Java, Bash, HTML, CSS, Excel VBA, GraphQL, Bash Script

Frameworks

Slim, OAuth 2, JSON Web Tokens (JWT), NestJS, Zend Framework, Laravel, Symfony, Apache Velocity, Symfony 3, Ext JS, ASP.NET, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Spring Boot, Next.js

Tools

Amazon EKS, Kong, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), GitHub, Git, Helm, Apache, Docker Compose, IntelliJ IDEA, NGINX, Docker Swarm, Grafana, Terraform, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Amazon CloudFront CDN, Jira, Confluence, ELK (Elastic Stack), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Vim Text Editor, Varnish, Concourse CI, Keycloak, Graylog, Packer, Ansible, Jenkins, Gatling, Amazon ElastiCache, Rally, CircleCI, Webistrano, Vagrant, Sencha UI, Moodle, JD Edwards, Peachtree Accounting Software, Capistrano, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), VPN, Redmine, SolarWinds, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), GitLab, AWS Fargate, Splunk, Prisma, Vault, RabbitMQ, Puppet, AWS CLI, AWS IAM

Paradigms

DevOps, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), API/Services Architecture, Microservices Architecture, DevSecOps, Event-driven Architecture, Test Automation, Microservices, Continuous Development (CD), DDoS, Serverless Architecture, Scrum, Agile, Azure DevOps, Automation

Platforms

Kubernetes, Docker, Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), DigitalOcean, Amazon EC2, LAMP, Red Hat OpenShift, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Ubuntu, Windows, AWS Lambda, Harbor, Linode, Percona, Apache2, Debian Linux, Oracle, Apache Kafka, Linux, CentOS, Drupal 8, Acquia Cloud, WordPress, Drupal, cPanel, OpenERP, New Relic, Google Cloud SDK, Amazon Lightsail, OpenShift, AWS ALB

Storage

Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Memcached, MySQL, Google Cloud, Database Performance, Google Cloud SQL, Amazon Aurora, Couchbase, PostgreSQL, Azure SQL Databases, Elasticsearch, Datadog, CouchDB, Redis, Azure Active Directory, On-premise, Oracle Cloud, Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft SQL Server

Industry Expertise

Retail & Wholesale

Other

Web Development, Software Development, Amazon RDS, CI/CD Pipelines, DNS, Architecture, Cloud Architecture, Solution Architecture, eCommerce, Container Orchestration, API Design, Load Balancers, Scalability, Containerization, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), RESTful Services, System Administration, IT Infrastructure, Web Servers, Software Architecture, IT Operations Management (ITOM), DevOps Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure, Control & Cost Analysis, Back-end Performance, Software Engineering, Team Leadership, Technical Documentation, Technical Leadership, API Integration, Omnichannel Marketing, Sales & Channel Enablement, Channels, Leadership, Content Delivery Networks (CDN), OpenID Connect (OIDC), Okta, OAuth, Identity & Access Management (IAM), API Gateways, Security Policies & Procedures, Amazon Route 53, AWS Cloud Architecture, RESTful Microservices, Full-stack, Orchestration, Web Application Firewall (WAF), Cloud Security, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Enterprise Architecture, SMTP, Containers, Kubernetes Operations (kOps), Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), SSL Certificates, SSL Configurations, VM, Identity, Cloud Engineering, TCP/IP, Performance Tuning, ECS, Monitoring, Virtual Machines, Strategic Planning, IaaS, Mobile Payments, Payment APIs, Solace, Quay, GitOps, Prometheus, Galera Cluster, Redis Clusters, Flarum, Amazon Kinesis, Cordova, Geographical Domain Name System (GeoDNS), GitHub Actions, HAProxy, Clustering, Venture Capital, Seed Fundraising, Cloudflare, QuickBooks Advance Reporting, Hyperion Financial Management, APIs, AWS DevOps, Akamai, Full-stack Development, Azure Virtual Networks, ServiceNow, High Availability Disaster Recovery (HADR), AWS NAT Gateway, Data Engineering, Data Analytics, Google Workspace, Security, Networking, Google Cloud Functions, Service Mesh, Policy as code (PaC), SIEM, Argo CD, Performance Analysis, Cloud, JSON Web Key Set (JWKS), Strapi

Libraries/APIs

jQuery, OpenID, OpenAPI, Node.js, React, Apigee, OpenSSL, OpenLDAP, Google Maps API, GeoIP

Education

2001 - 2004

Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems and Accounting

University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS) - Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA

Certifications

JANUARY 2017 - JANUARY 2019

Certified Scrum Product Owner

Scrum Alliance

APRIL 2014 - APRIL 2017

Certified SAFe Agilist

Scaled Agile Academy

NOVEMBER 2013 - NOVEMBER 2015

Certified Scrum Master

Scrum Alliance

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