Waqasali

Devops Engineer

ASTRA • Full-time

Feb 2018 - Present • 8 yrs 6 mos

My expertise lies in building secure, scalable, and highly available environments that enable engineering teams to deliver software faster, more reliably, and with reduced operational overhead. I have extensive hands-on experience across the full DevOps lifecycle, including infrastructure provisioning, CI/CD implementation, container orchestration, system administration, observability, and production support. I specialize in architecting end-to-end deployment workflows using technologies such as **Docker, Kubernetes, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, AWS, Linux, and Infrastructure as Code tools**. My work focuses on improving release velocity, ensuring system resilience, and establishing automation-first operational practices. Key areas of expertise include: * Cloud infrastructure design and deployment on AWS * CI/CD pipeline architecture and release automation * Containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes * Linux server administration and performance optimization * Infrastructure automation with Ansible and Terraform * Monitoring, logging, and alerting with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and Zabbix * Reverse proxy, web server, and load balancer configuration * Security hardening and DevSecOps best practices * LLMOps and AI workload deployment pipelines * Production incident troubleshooting and root cause analysis In addition to traditional DevOps, I also support **LLMOps and AI infrastructure use cases**, including deployment of LLM-powered applications, inference services, API integrations, agent-based workflows, and scalable backend environments for AI products. I am committed to delivering production-ready solutions that align with business goals, improve engineering productivity, and maintain operational excellence. If you are looking for a dependable DevOps professional who can take ownership of your infrastructure and deployment ecosystem, I would be glad to support your project.