Mudassir Ali

Lead DevOps & Cloud Engineer

YAP USA • Full-time

Apr 2025 - Present • 1 yr 4 mos

• Lead and mentor a team of DevOps Engineers, driving the design, implementation, and delivery of scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure supporting financial services platforms. • Architect and manage hybrid cloud environments across AWS Cloud and local cloud platforms (RapidCompute / PTCL Cloud) ensuring high availability, regulatory compliance, and production reliability. • Collaborate closely with engineering, security, and product teams to define infrastructure requirements and implement secure, automated deployment workflows. • Design and maintain enterprise CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, and Git-based workflows, enabling automated build, test, and deployment across multiple environments. • Implement containerized microservices architectures using Docker, AWS ECS, and Fargate, ensuring efficient service orchestration and scalable application deployments. • Architect and manage Kubernetes-based environments (EKS) for staging and production workloads, ensuring high availability, resilience, and scalability. • Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Terraform and CloudFormation, enabling automated infrastructure provisioning and environment standardization. • Integrate and manage third-party financial ecosystem connectivity with external partners including NADRA, 1Link, EN (Cybernet), and CN, ensuring secure network connectivity, service reliability, and compliance. • Conduct technical POCs, security integrations, and cloud architecture improvements leveraging AWS services such as EC2, ALB, CloudFront, Lambda, S3, RDS, ACM, IAM, Auto Scaling, and CloudWatch. • Implement and manage cloud security and compliance tooling including AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty, Trusted Advisor, Prowler, and centralized logging through ELK Stack. • Establish observability and monitoring frameworks using Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, and AWS CloudWatch, improving incident detection and operational visibility.

AWS Disaster Recovery & High Availability

Fintech • Freelance

Jan 2026 - Jun 2026 • 5 mos

Designed and implemented a highly available AWS infrastructure across multiple Availability Zones with automated disaster recovery. Configured ECS/Fargate services behind Application Load Balancers, Aurora Multi-AZ, Route 53 failover, and automated backups. Reduced downtime, improved resilience, and ensured business continuity for mission-critical financial applications.