Abdul Hadi

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Feb 2022 - Present • 4 yrs 3 mos

As a 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿, I architect resilient infrastructure for global clients, specializing in "Lift & Shift" cloud migrations, cost optimization, and zero-trust security implementations for the Banking and Telecom sectors. 𝗞𝗘𝗬 𝗖𝗟𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗘𝗡𝗚𝗔𝗚𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧: BITS GLOBAL CONSULTING (RIYADH, KSA) Deployed a comprehensive Data Security and Integration ecosystem for a major enterprise client. • Enterprise Security: Integrated IBM Guardium with Thales CipherTrust to establish a centralized encryption command center. Enforced Column-Level Encryption on Oracle and PostgreSQL databases and automated GDPR/PCI DSS compliance reporting, reducing audit effort by 40%. • Hybrid Integration: Provisioned High-Availability infrastructure for Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS), implementing SSO and optimizing Secure Agents for zero-downtime data synchronization. • Storage Modernization: Deployed a multi-node IBM Storage Ceph cluster on RHEL, tuning CRUSH maps to achieve 99.99% availability for critical workloads. 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗡𝗔𝗟 𝗘𝗡𝗚𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗚 & 𝗖𝗟𝗢𝗨𝗗 𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦 • AWS Optimization: Migrated legacy workloads from Lightsail to EC2 Auto-Scaling Groups, rightsizing instances to achieve an 18% reduction in monthly cloud costs. • Kubernetes: Deployed production-ready clusters using kubeadm and Ansible, configuring custom CNI networking and NFS storage for stateful applications. • Big Data: Executed complex Cloudera Data Lake migrations to Azure (RHEL 8 / Flexible Server) and managed CDH to CDP upgrades.

System Administrator

Jan 2021 - Jan 2022 • 1 yr

• 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝘂𝘅 𝗔𝗱𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: Administered enterprise-level Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) environments, managing package updates, kernel tuning, and security patching to ensure system stability. • 𝗕𝗶𝗴 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀: Managed Hadoop clusters using Cloudera Manager, performing health checks on HDFS, YARN, and Spark services. • 𝗧𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗲𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴: Diagnosed and resolved critical system alerts, analyzing server logs to fix connectivity and performance bottlenecks. • 𝗗𝗼𝗰𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: Authored technical SOPs for cluster maintenance and server provisioning to streamline operations for the wider engineering team.

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2020 - Dec 2020 • 11 mos

• Led the frontend development of cross-platform mobile applications using React Native, focusing on seamless user experiences. • Integrated advanced features such as Google Maps, Zoom, and Agora meetings while collaborating with backend developers using GraphQL. • Contributing expertise in mobile application development at Nordstone to deliver cutting-edge, high-impact solutions.