Syed Maad Jahangir, Chief Architect / DevOps Engineer Resume

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Syed Maad Jahangir

Chief Architect / DevOps Engineer

a: Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

e: smaadjahangir@gmail.comsmaadjahangir@gmail.com

w: http://www.smaadjahangir.comhttp://www.smaadjahangir.com

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

s: smaadjahangirsmaadjahangir

n: +923453022296

Technical Skills

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, Autosacling, RDS, 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.

MySQL, MariaDB, Mysql Percona, MongoDB, PostgreSQL.

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

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

Applications

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

Professional Experience

Chief Architect

Mar 2017 - Present

Aurea SoftwareAurea Software, Austin, United States

Business Solution Providers

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

Oct 2016 - Feb 2017

Aurea SoftwareAurea Software, Austin, United States

Business Solution Providers

Working on deploying new monitoring stack on all the products under Aurea'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

June 2014 - Sept 2016

CloudwaysCloudways, Mosta, Malta

Managed service and PaaS provider

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

May 2012 - May 2014

CloudwaysCloudways, Mosta, Malta

Managed service and PaaS provider

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

August 2008 - Dec 2009

eWorld Private LimitedeWorld Private Limited, Karachi, Pakistan

Internet and Hosting Service Provider

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

January 2008 - August 2011

University

Preston Institute of Management, Science and Technology

GPA

3.5 / 4.0