Abrar Akbar

Senior DevOps Engineer (DevOps Engineer II)

Sep 2024 - Present • 1 yr 10 mos

Leading cloud infrastructure, deployment automation, and platform reliability for a growing Pakistani fintech. - Built an open-source observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, OpenTelemetry) across 30+ microservices — saving ~USD 24,000/year. - Architected a zero-trust security framework with Cloudflare Access and AWS Secrets Manager, eliminating VPN dependency org-wide. - Codified 100% of AWS infrastructure in Terraform — cut environment setup from days to under 30 minutes. - Built Jenkins + AWS CodePipeline CI/CD — reduced deploy time 65% with 10+ daily zero-downtime blue-green releases. - Designed Multi-AZ RDS with 99.99% uptime and sub-60s failover. - Reduced incident MTTR ~50% via Slack + Prometheus + Grafana alerting. - Led Hetzner → AWS migration, cutting latency ~40%. Tech: AWS (EC2, VPC, RDS, S3, Lambda, ECS, ECR, IAM, CodePipeline), Terraform, Jenkins, Docker, Cloudflare, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry, Python, Bash.

DevOps Engineer

Jan 2023 - Nov 2025 • 2 yrs 10 mos

•Optimized infrastructure using ESXi hypervisor, enhancing server consolidation and resource pooling. • Deployed Docker images in ECS using ECR registry and Fargate, resulting in improved response times. • Implemented AWS IAM policies and roles, reducing security incidents and improving access control. • Provisioned and managed AWS EC2 instances and GCP VMs, ensuring high availability through autoscaling and efficient load distribution with load balancing. • Streamlined React and Node.js applications deployment, and PHP applications using Nginx and Apache, enhancing performance and reliability. • Configured CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins to automate the build, and deployment processes, enhancing development efficiency and reducing deployment time. • Initiated setting up new infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) utilizing Terraform, resulting in a quicker, more reliable, and more reliable environment provisioning.

DevOps Engineer

Jan 2022 - Aug 2024 • 2 yrs 7 mos

Scaled multi-cloud production infrastructure for Pakistan's largest job portal — serving 500,000+ monthly active users. - Managed AWS + GCP workloads at 99.9% uptime; cut monthly AWS spend 25% via Reserved Instances, right-sizing, and auto-scaling. - Standardized 8 environments with Terraform IaC — eliminating config drift and enabling reproducible deployments. - Built Jenkins CI/CD for React, Node.js, and PHP apps — cut manual deployment effort 70%, moving releases from bi-weekly to 3x/week. - Deployed containerized workloads on AWS ECS/Fargate, cutting cold-start times 35%. - Consolidated VMware (15+ servers → 4 hosts, 60% hardware cost cut); automated 15+ ops workflows in Python/Bash, saving 20+ hrs/month. - Zero security incidents in 2.5 years via OS hardening, IAM, and Cloudflare WAF/DNS/SSL. Tech: AWS (EC2, ECS/Fargate, ECR, IAM, ALB, ASG), GCP (Compute Engine, VPC, Load Balancing, MIGs), Terraform, Jenkins, Docker, VMware, Cloudflare, Python, Bash.