Abdul

Phone: (734) 367-4333

Email: abdul-aws@gmx.com

Certified AWS Solutions Architect Associate / DevOps and Cloud Engineer

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Career Summary:

 Certified AWS Solutions Architect with 5 years of experience in the IT and 3+ years of AWS and DevOps with
strong background in agile environment, Continuous delivery and deployment, Build and Release management
and System Administration.
 Experienced in implementing various software development methodologies including Waterfall, Scrum and Agile
methodology.
 Designed and built cloud service models including Infrastructure-as- a-Service, Platform-as- a-Service and
Software-as- a-Service.
 In-depth knowledge on various AWS Services including EC2, VPC (NAT, Peering, VPN), IAM, EC2 Container
Service, Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda, S3, Cloud Front, Glacier, RDS, Dynamo DB, Elastic-Cache, Redshift, Direct
Connect, Route 53, cloudwatch, Cloud Formation, Cloud Trial, Route 53, Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (EMR),
AWS, SNS, SQS, Lambda, API Gateway etc.
 Expertise in AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) such as creating users, groups, organizing IAM users to
groups, assigning roles to groups.
 Used Amazon S3 to backup database instances periodically to save snapshots of data.
 Responsible for performing tasks like Branching, Tagging, and Release Activities on Version Control Tools like
SVN, GIT
 Experience with DevOps methodologies and cloud infrastructure automation tools like Chef, Puppet.
 Experienced in Automated deployments of full application stack using Docker; Deployment of Docker container
for development.
 Expert in Installing and Configuring Continuous Integration (CI) tool such as Jenkins for end-to- end, Automated
Build, Deploy and Release activities.
 Experience in logging, monitoring and maintaining application servers using tools such as Nagios.
 Experienced in using build management tool such as Maven and proficient in building deployable artifacts such
as WAR and EAR files by executing Compile, Test, package, Install, Deploy, Clean and Site phases of Maven.
 Possess good knowledge in creating and launching EC2 instances using AMI’s of Linux, Ubuntu, RHEL, and
Windows and wrote shell scripts to bootstrap instance.
 Gained exposure at professional level with C, JAVA, HTML, CSS and PHP.

Technical Skills:

Cloud Infrastructure Amazon Web Services

Scripting Shell, Python, Java, C++, PHP, XML, HTML, Ruby.
Languages C, C++, HTML5, CSS, PHP, PL/SQL and Java.
DevOps tools Jenkins, Docker, Chef, Nagios, GIT, JIRA , Maven
Web/App server Web Logic Application Server 9.x, 10.x, Apache Tomcat5.x/7.x, AWS.
Database Dynamo DB, MongoDB, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL.
Operating System Windows, Linux, UNIX, RHEL, Centos, Ubuntu.
Network Services LDAP, DNS, DHCP, FTP, LAN, WAN, VPN and Firewalls.
Work Experience:

Westpac Bank, NYC September 2016 - March 2018

AWS DevOps Engineer
Westpac Bank is located in New York City, United States. Worked as a DevOps engineer where I build, designed,
architected and maintained Development Life Cycle. In this project my role was to maintain the Version Control System
using Git, Maven to build files, Jenkins for Continuous Integration, Nagios for monitoring it and automated the required
configurations using Chef.

Responsibilities:
 Responsibilities included designing and developing new back-end services, maintaining and expanding our AWS
infrastructure.
 Involved in design, built, and deploy a multitude of application utilizing almost all of the AWS stack
 Experienced in Branching, Merging, Tagging and maintaining the version across the environments
 using SCM tool like GIT
 Maintained build related scripts developed in Maven, Created and modified build configuration files including
Ant's build.xml and Maven Pom.xml.
 Managed the Version control systems GIT and GITHUB.
 Provided technical direction to development teams.
 Generated deployment profiles (jar, war, ear) using Jenkins.
 Worked on deploying software applications on AWS and configuring EC2, RDS, EMR, Elastic beanstalk.
 Involved in deploying the content Cloud platform on AWS using EC2, S3 and EBS.
 Experience in Performance Tuning and Query Optimization in AWS Redshift.
 Involved in all projects that move to production and work closely with the Development, Quality Assurance and
Management teams to ensure cross communication and confirmed approval of all production changes
 Provided end-user training for all Subversion (SVN) users to effectively use the tool.
 Worked on Linux in Cloud Computing environments using AWS.
 Used IAM for creating roles, users, groups and also implemented MFA to provide additional security
to AWS account and its resources.
 Created S3 backups using versioning enable and moving objects to Amazon Glacier for archiving purpose.
 Created load balancers (ELB) and used Route53 with failover and latency options for high availability and fault
tolerance.
 Mastery of using JIRA defect tracking system and configuring various workflows, customizations and plugins for
JIRA.
 Implementing a Continuous Delivery framework using Jenkins, Puppet, Maven and Nexus in Linux environment.
 Supported API development team in creating Ansible playbooks for deploying, integrating and monitoring their
continuous integration environment.

Environment: Jenkins, GIT, Maven, Chef, Ansible, AWS (EC2, EFS, S3, VPC, Lambda, API Gateway, Route 53 (DNS), ECS,
Cloud Formation, RDS, Dynamo DB, Load Balancers, Cloud Watch, SNS, SES, SQS, IAM, , Ops Works), Shell Scripting,
Tomcat, Docker, UNIX, RHEL and Windows

UPS, New Jersey September 2014 – August 2016

Cloud Engineer

Worked as a Cloud (AWS) Application developer, contributed to the design/development of cloud native applications
with AWS for large scale enterprise applications. Using new technologies, techniques and patterns, provide proof of
concepts use standards and best practices. My role is responsible for development, support, maintenance and
implementation of a complex project module.
Responsibilities:

 Responsible for architecting, designing, implementing and supporting of cloud based infrastructure and its
solutions.
 Proficient in using team collaboration tool Confluence.
 Proficient in AWS services like Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Security Groups, Network Access Control List ( NACL),
Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2 instances), Elastic Block Store (EBS), Simple Storage Service (S3), Elastic Load
Balancer (ELB), RDS MySQL, Subnets, Snapshots, Auto-Scaling Groups, Route 53 DNS, Glacier, Elastic File System
(EFS), Cloud Front, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail.
 Utilized AWS CLI to automate backups of ephemeral data-stores to S3 buckets, EBS and create nightly AMIs for
mission critical production servers as backups.
 Experienced in creating RDS instances to serve data through servers for responding to requests.
 Used IAM for creating roles, users, groups and also implemented MFA to provide additional security
to AWS account and its resources.
 Possess good knowledge in creating and launching EC2 instances using AMI’s of Linux, Ubuntu, RHEL, and
Windows and wrote shell scripts to bootstrap instance.
 Worked on deploying software applications on AWS and configuring EC2, RDS, EMR, Elastic beanstalk.
 Helped to migrate and managing multiple applications from on-premise to cloud using AWS services like S3,
Glacier, EC2, RDS, SQS, SNS, SES, Cloud Formation, VPC etc. Protect Web Application using WAF
 Facilitated customization of systems by encouraging software engineering team to adopt emerging standards for
software application development architecture and tools. Monitoring Security Groups with Amazon Cloud
Watch Events.
 Migrated the current Linux environment to AWS/RHEL Linux environment and used the auto-scaling feature.
 Upgrade systems and processes as required for enhanced functionality and security issue resolution.

Environment: AWS, VPC, Route 53, EBS, S3, ELB, ECS, Cloud watch, Cloud Formation, AWS CLI, AWS Auto Scaling, Linux,
Python, Ruby, Shell scripting.

Neustar, Weston, FL December 2013 – August 2014

Web Developer
Worked with the Neustar Technology Company as a Web/App Developer. Designed Flowcharts, functionalities of the
applications and integrated testing for the project. Adapted new System life cycle methodologies to get the better
performance in less time duration. Helped with the side projects as well with Model View Controllers (MVC) and Spring
Java Framework.

 Resolved memory corruption and other technical issues by leveraging strengths in coding and debugging.
 Designed the Flowcharts and build algorithms and Integrated Testing.
 Responsible for managing the bugs reported by the SQA team and troubleshoot various software issues using
debugging process and coding techniques.
 Used Java Inheritance and Encapsulation for the Java classes to make the code more reliable
 Deployed the complete Web applications in Tomcat Application server.
 Implemented Core PHP concepts of CRUD with Database connectivity and interconnected it with the real time
project.
 Developed a small task portal with Fuel PHP MVC controller and tested the web site using Firebug.
 Developed and enhanced programs using Java, contributing to solutions that streamlined processes
 Architected and Implemented chat application on Java using client/server sides both ends.
 Installed and configured the WordPress.

Environment: PHP, Core JAVA, MVC Framework, FUEL PHP, WordPress, Servlets, Spring.