About me
Senior DevOps Engineer with 10+ years of experience specializing in cloud-native infrastructure, CI/CD automation, and Site Reliability Engineering. I architect and deliver scalable, resilient solutions across multi-cloud platforms, helping organizations optimize their infrastructure and accelerate software delivery.
My expertise spans container orchestration, Infrastructure-as-Code, GitOps workflows, and comprehensive observability. I'm passionate about building automated, self-healing systems that reduce operational overhead while improving reliability. Throughout my career, I've consistently delivered measurable results in cost optimization, deployment efficiency, and system uptime.
What I'm doing
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Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineering
Currently managing production Kubernetes clusters on AWS EKS, Azure AKS, and GCP GKE. Implementing auto-scaling policies, pod disruption budgets, and multi-region failover strategies. Using Terraform and Helm for infrastructure provisioning, achieving 99.95% uptime SLA across all environments.
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CI/CD Pipeline Automation
Building Azure DevOps pipelines with YAML-based configurations, integrating SonarQube for code quality, Trivy for container scanning, and Checkmarx for security analysis. Implementing blue-green deployments, canary releases, and feature flags. Currently handling 100+ daily production deployments with <2% rollback rate.
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Monitoring & Site Reliability
Operating Prometheus federation for metrics aggregation across 50+ clusters, Grafana dashboards with custom SLO tracking, and ELK Stack processing 500GB+ daily logs. Configured PagerDuty integration with intelligent alert routing. Maintaining Mean Time To Detection (MTTD) under 3 minutes and MTTR under 30 minutes.
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Data Pipeline Engineering
Developing IBM InfoSphere DataStage jobs processing billions of financial transactions daily. Implementing real-time data validation, error handling, and reconciliation workflows. Managing Apache Airflow DAGs for orchestrating complex ETL workflows across 20+ data sources with 99.8% pipeline success rate.
Testimonials
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Daniel lewis
★★★★★Waqar optimized our multi-cloud infrastructure, reducing operational costs by 40% through strategic Kubernetes cluster management and automated scaling policies. His implementation of GitOps workflows with ArgoCD streamlined our deployment process significantly.
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Jessica miller
★★★★★Waqar designed and deployed our complete observability stack using Prometheus for metrics collection, Grafana for visualization, and ELK for log aggregation. His custom alerting rules and SLO dashboards reduced MTTR by 60% and improved our incident response capabilities.
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Emily evans
★★★★★Waqar architected and executed our cloud migration from on-premises to AWS. His phased approach using containerization with Docker and orchestration via EKS ensured zero downtime. The infrastructure-as-code implementation with Terraform enabled reproducible deployments.
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Henry william
★★★★★Waqar architected our CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps with automated testing, security scanning, and progressive deployment strategies. His implementation of blue-green deployments and feature flags reduced deployment risk while enabling continuous delivery with 50+ deployments per week.
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Sarah Thompson
★★★★★Waqar transformed our disaster recovery strategy by implementing automated backup solutions and cross-region replication across Azure and AWS. His comprehensive DR drills and runbooks reduced our RTO from 4 hours to 15 minutes, ensuring business continuity.
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Michael Chen
★★★★★Waqar led the implementation of our security hardening initiative, integrating Vault for secrets management, implementing network policies in Kubernetes, and establishing RBAC best practices. His security automation reduced vulnerabilities by 85% while maintaining developer productivity.
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Lisa Rodriguez
★★★★★Waqar optimized our data pipeline infrastructure using Apache Airflow and Kubernetes operators. His implementation of data quality monitoring, automated data validation, and intelligent retry mechanisms improved pipeline reliability from 92% to 99.7% while reducing processing time by 45%.
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Robert Anderson
★★★★★Waqar revolutionized our development workflow by implementing a complete GitOps platform with Flux CD and automated environment provisioning. His self-service developer portal reduced environment setup time from 2 days to 15 minutes and increased deployment frequency by 300%.
