PDF Print Blog

Syed Maad Jahangir

SEM / Chief Architect / DevOps Engineer / Senior Infrastructure Engineer

a: Berlin, Germany

e: smaadjahangir@gmail.com

w: http://www.smaadjahangir.com

i: http://linkedin.com/in/smaadjahangir

s: smaadjahangir

n: +4917689223789

Technical Skills

OS

Linux: Debian/Ubuntu, CentOS; Windows: 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, 7, 2008, 2012, 2016

Programming

Ruby, Bash, Python, Batch, subversion, git, YAML, JSON, HTML, PHP

Networking

TCP/IP, Load balancing, nmap, HTTP, HTTPS, SSL, SSH, IPTables, DNS, FTP, sFTP, DHCP, NFS, Active Directory, SMTP, POP3, IMAP

Technologies

Digital Ocean, GCE, Vultr, Elastic Host, Linode, Heroku, EngineYard, AWS: EC2, ELB, Autoscaling, ECS, RDS, Redshift, Route53, S3, CloudFront, VPC, EFS, SES.

Apache, Nginx, Varnish, IIS, HHVM, NodeJS, Passenger, Unicorn, HAproxy, Pound, Memcached, PHP-fpm, PHP7.

Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, Mcollective, RabbitMQ, Redis, Telegraf, Sensu, Prometheus, Graphite, Grafana, Zabbix, New Relic, Icinga, Monit, DataDog.

MySQL, MariaDB, Mysql Percona, MongoDB, PostgreSQL.

OpenSSH, MySecureShell, proftpd, Shorewall, OpenVPN, L2TP/IPSec, Postfix, Rsnapshot, PagerDuty, Duplicity.

Vmware ESX Server 4.1, Dockers, Kubernetes, Vagrant, SharePoint, WSS 3.0.

Applications

Magento (with FPC), Wordpress (with W3TC), Drupal, Joomla, SugarCRM, MediaWiki, Laravel

Professional Experience

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Tilta Fintech GmbH, Berlin, Germany
Financial Services

April 2022 - Present
  • Leading the design and implementation of cloud infrastructure on AWS to support scalable fintech applications.
  • Created infrastructure on AWS ECS Fargate, enabling seamless deployment and scaling of containerized applications.
  • Enhanced the CI/CD pipelines, integrating Github Actions to streamline deployment across multiple environments.
  • Collaborated with the security team to implement best practices, including IAM policies, encryption, and automated vulnerability scanning.
  • Developed an advanced monitoring solution using Datadog, enhancing system reliability and reducing incident response times.
  • Built and automated infrastructure provisioning and management using Terraform, ensuring consistency and scalability across environments.
Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Finiata, Berlin, Germany
Financial Services

June 2020 - Present
  • Took over pending projects from an ex-team member in a short period of time.
  • Migration of Backend Application (Rail) from Heroku to AWS ECS (fargate).
  • Enhance the Automation with the help of terraform.
  • Accommodating developers requirements of features on AWS (fargate console, schedule deployment etc).
  • Build and maintain monitoring on datadog.
  • Worked on the Security aspect of infrastructure.
  • Building multiple deployment processes, different for each environment.
  • Atlantis, for production deployment (Github).
  • Slack bot, with the combination of Lambda and Github action, is used for deployment on the staging environment.
  • Developed the on-boarding/off-boarding process.
  • Developed and Improved Monitoring, using DataDog and Python (Lambda functions).
  • Worked on AWS RDS to AWS Redshift replication using AWS DMS.
  • Setup Okta (SSO) with different applications.
Senior Infrastructure Engineer

HeyJobs, Berlin, Germany
Internet

Aug 2019 - May 2020
  • Assumed ownership of the Infrastructure team and platform.
  • Introduced and enforced process/structure to the team (Jira Workflow, RCA’s etc).
  • Supervised, architect, and took part in implementing technologies and platforms supporting a complex internal application.
  • Developed and tracked the team’s performance through the KPIs and OKRs that were set in the internal meetings.
  • Helped develop a roadmap to develop and evolve the infrastructure as per the current and future demands of the business.
  • Cut costs by 40% by optimizing infrastructure (AWS) and 3rd Party monitoring tool (DataDog).
  • Maintained repositories for DevOps environment: automation code and configuration.
  • Troubleshoot and remediate issues that were affecting the operation of the application and infrastructure (AWS ECS, AWS RDS, AWS Redshift etc).
  • Achieved 92% in the internal team’s happiness survey.
  • Developed and Improved automation (Ansible) and supporting multiple environments which included production, staging, and QA.
  • Developed and Improved Monitoring, using DataDog and Python (Lambda functions).
  • Worked on AWS RDS to AWS Redshift replication using AWS DMS.
  • Provided Support to Internal Teams and Products.
Software Engineering Manager

ESW Capital, Austin, United States
Venture Capital & Private Equity

Feb 2018 - Feb 2019
  • Leading day to day team meetings and organizing weekly and quarterly goals.
  • Defining, Optimizing & implementing processes and best practices for continuous improvement of the team's output.
  • Maintaining and improving KPIs and trends.
  • Net Promoter score (NPS) and Followups.
  • Frequently Analysing and Monitoring requests then work on Automating them.
  • Maintaining and improving FTAR.
  • Implement monitoring automation in order to reduce the time between request and implementation.
  • Continuous improvement of Monitoring stack to support different product more efficiently.
Chief Architect

ESW Capital, Austin, United States
Venture Capital & Private Equity

Mar 2017 - Jan 2018
  • Designing and Implementing new Monitoring Stack which is Central Monitoring hub for all products.
  • Supporting Old Monitoring Stack as per the requirements from different teams.
  • Leading team of Engineers in Achieving the designed roadmap.
  • Working on Zabbix with combination of Grafana to give teams insight of the product.
  • Building a sophisticated solution to get AWS Cloudwatch stats to Zabbix.
  • Delegating tasks to the team and assisting them in completing those tasks.
  • Developing a complex monitoring solution for database which supports MSSQL, MySQL, Postgres and Oracle. The solution works with queries that are provided to it.
DevOps Engineer

ESW Capital, Austin, United States
Venture Capital & Private Equity

Oct 2016 - Feb 2017
  • Working on deploying new monitoring stack on all the products under ESW's umbrella.
  • Deploying monitoring stack consist of Prometheus, Telegraf and Grafana.
  • Working on log monitoring by using ELK stack with filebeats.
  • Analyzing custom requirements of products and providing solutions.
  • Worked on Ansible playbooks for automating deployment process.
DevOps Engineer

Cloudways, Mosta, Malta
Managed service and PaaS provider

June 2014 - Sept 2016
  • Collaborated with my team on System automation using Puppet and Ansible.
  • Administration of more than 5000 servers on different cloud providers.
  • Developed various Ansible playbooks to automate different tasks on Cloudways Platform.
  • Setting up monitoring system for Cloudways Platform/Console using Sensu and Graphite.
  • Creating Ruby scripts for Sensu checks and Graphite.
  • Used GIT for version controlling.
  • Creating bash scripts to automate various tasks.
  • Did brief research on Dockers and its usability against Cloudways Platform.
Senior Linux System Administrator

Cloudways, Mosta, Malta
Managed service and PaaS provider

May 2012 - May 2014
  • Installation, configuration and administration of Linux Servers, Maintain and Manage various services running in Linux system such as Apache, Nginx, HAProxy, MySQL (Replication), PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, Shorewall, Varnish, Postfix, etc.
  • Deployment and maintenance of Cloudways corporate customer’s services and servers on Amazon Web Service, Google Cloud Engine, Digital Ocean, Linode, CloudSigma and ElasticHosts.
  • Working on different products of AWS that includes EC2, Autoscaling, VPC, ELB, RDS, Route53, Cloudfront, S3, EFS, etc.
  • Installation, configuration, maintain and monitoring the availability of the network and services using Zabbix.
  • Setup and maintain OpenVPN and L2TP/IPSec (via Racoon and SoftEther).
  • Working on backups using Rsnapshot and Duplicity.
  • Installation, migration, configuration and troubleshooting of Open source Application like Magento, Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, etc.
  • Configure Caching with the help of Varnish, FPC and W3TC on Magento and Wordpress.
  • Perform load test on websites using 3rd Party tools like Blitz and LoadStorm.
  • Setup and maintain Samba and NFS servers as corporate client’s backup servers.
  • Writing and maintaining documentation for multiple tasks and procedures.
Junior Network Engineer

eWorld Private Limited, Karachi, Pakistan
Internet and Hosting Service Provider

August 2008 - Dec 2009
  • Maintain and monitor Mail Services, Web Services, DNS Services and Network Infrastructure.
  • Take measures to enhance network availability.
  • Implement and document Network Changes and configurations.
  • Management of IP addresses.
  • Plan and implement monitoring and backup routine of NOC devices, configurations and Logs.
  • Training of Technical Support Staff.
  • Interaction with vendors and other service providers.

Education

Degree

Bachelor of Science in Information Technology

University

Preston Institute of Management, Science and Technology

GPA

3.5 / 4.0

January 2008 - August 2011