Shahbaz Ahmed

Designed and automated enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines with GitLab CI for Terraform and Ansible. Engineered production-ready AKS Kubernetes platforms using Helm, GitOps, and observability best practices. Managed 100+ Linux servers via scalable Ansible automation with security-driven CI testing. Enhanced monitoring with Prometheus, Alertmanager, and Grafana (SLO-driven). Built centralized ELK logging to optimize reliability, visibility, and incident response.

Ensured Linux server performance and reliability by managing the entire lifecycle of server. Implemented "Checkmk" monitoring for proactive issue resolution in systems. Reduced app deployment time by 75% with bash automation. Managed backups, ensured 100% data recovery. Provisioned EC2 instances with Terraform, controlled budget with S3 pricing. Automated server configuration with Ansible, registered servers with Foreman/Red Hat Satellite and implemented patch management with Foreman.

Ensured Linux environment availability, performance, and security. Managed Kubernetes components, maintaining 99.9% uptime. Configured and administered services (Apache, Nginx, MySQL, Redis, PHP-FPM, etc.) to increase application performance. Troubleshot CMS issues, resolving 80% issues within 12 hours. Implemented performance tuning techniques to optimize VPS performance by 25%. Configured firewall, reducing security incidents by 15%.

4th position holder in the campus