I help engineering teams run reliable AWS infrastructure, spend less on it, and ship faster.
Independent DevOps consultant since 2024, for startups and mid-size companies in fintech, e-commerce, real estate, and data. Before that, two years at AWS Professional Services.
Clients
What clients say
“Muhammad is an extraordinarily diligent and driven problem solver who proactively discovers opportunities to deliver value.”
“Muhammad is an excellent freelancer and a very good team member. He was always available, flexible, and willing to help us work through any AWS issues that came up.”
“Very knowledgeable with AWS and helped us move our code to a different repository. He also helped resolve a couple of bugs in our code and some issues with dependencies! 10/10 will gladly work with again!”
Services
What I can take off your plate
- 01
AWS architecture
ECS Fargate, RDS and Aurora, Glue, Airflow (MWAA), WAF, and CloudFront, all in Terraform.
- 02
CI/CD
GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, and Bazel. I find why builds are slow and fix the cause.
- 03
Cost optimization
Idle resources, wrong backup policies, and old storage types.
- 04
Security
Least-privilege AWS SSO, WAF rules, and edge hardening.
- 05
AI-assisted engineering
Coding agents your team can trust: the right tools, guardrails like permissions, hooks, and shared memory, and agents wired into code review and CI/CD.
- 06
Team enablement
Runbooks, root-cause write-ups, and decision docs, so the team owns the system after I leave.
Client work
Problems I solved recently
- 01
Cut a client's AWS bill by 50%, from $5,000 to $2,500 per month ($30K per year).
- 02
Moved a property-data company from many service repos to one monorepo in 13 PRs, with git history kept, and replaced manual cherry-pick releases with GitFlow and Bazel.
- 03
Found why GitHub Actions runs took 40 to 70 minutes: a 6 GB cache was evicted on almost every run. A one-line fix per workflow recovers 5 to 7 minutes per run.
- 04
Replaced an undocumented Terragrunt setup with Terraform on ECS Fargate, ALB, EFS, and Aurora, and added a staging environment.
- 05
Deployed AWS WAF managed rules on a production app and blocked scanner traffic that bypassed the host header.
- 06
Rebuilt a development agency's DevOps setup in Terraform, so new applications launch faster. Their infrastructure is now fully automated and version controlled.
- 07
Built CI/CD pipelines and automated software delivery for several clients, making releases more reliable and cutting manual work.
Experience
Where I learned it
Certified
- 2024 – now
Senior DevOps Consultant · Independent
AWS infrastructure, CI/CD, security, and AI-assisted engineering for startups and mid-size companies in fintech, e-commerce, real estate, and data.
- 2021 – 2023
Amazon Web Services · Professional Services
Built CloudFormation Registry resources for EC2, IAM, and CodeDeploy, used by millions of customers. Delivered CDK constructs and CI/CD pipelines for enterprise customers, and led a team of six.
- 2020
AWS · Professional Services intern
CloudFormation templates for a customer's infrastructure.
- 2020
HSBC · Innovation intern
A news risk classifier, a regulator news scraper, and an RPA job that replaced three days of manual reconciliation.
- 2018 – 2019
JPMorgan Chase · CUNY · Software engineering intern
ML models on Kubernetes, a production-issue search engine, and a Django app on a Raspberry Pi.
- 01
EchoVault
Local memory for coding agents: Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex.
- 02
AWS OmniConsole
A one-click AWS account switcher, on Firefox Add-ons.
- 03
Minute
A fully local macOS meeting notetaker, built with Codex in five days.
In detail
The longer version
Independent consultant, 2024 to now
I work with startups and mid-size companies in fintech, e-commerce, real estate, and data. Most engagements start with one painful problem: a bill that keeps growing, a pipeline that takes an hour, or infrastructure nobody on the team understands anymore. I fix that problem, write down how it works, and leave the team able to run it.
Recent work includes the monorepo move and CI fixes listed above, least-privilege AWS SSO roles, a production DNS zone moved to Route 53 with every email record intact, and an ECS staging environment for a fintech product with ACM certificates, a DNS cutover, and a one-command deploy. On the application side, I refactored a 2,642-line Flask monolith into a modular API with 50+ endpoints, OpenAPI docs, and Jenkins CI/CD, and built a Django inventory app with Azure AD SSO.
AWS Professional Services, 2021 to 2023
As an application developer, I moved high-volume CloudFormation resources such as AWS::CodeDeploy::Application, AWS::EC2::Volume, and AWS::IAM::InstanceProfile onto the CloudFormation Registry, written in Java. I led a team of six on that migration, cut onboarding time from three months to one by rewriting the project docs, and mentored new hires.
As a DevOps consultant, I rewrote a customer’s AWS CDK constructs from Python to TypeScript and used JSII to publish them to C# and Java. One custom RDS construct took database deploys for the customer’s DBA teams from weeks to minutes. I also wrote an ALB and ECS construct, built CI/CD pipelines, and made a GitHub Actions template repository so developers could set up their own.
Internships, 2018 to 2020
- AWS Professional Services (2020): CloudFormation templates for a customer’s infrastructure, and migration cost estimates.
- HSBC, Financial Crime Risk (2020): a multi-label news risk classifier, a Flask app for auditors to search and export news with summaries, a scraper for regulator publications (CFPB, OCC, Fed), and an RPA job that replaced three days of manual account reconciliation.
- JPMorgan Chase (2019): new features for a Spring Boot and Angular search engine for production issues, and machine-learning models deployed on Kubernetes to tag those issues.
- CUNY (2018 to 2019): features and unit tests for a Django app on a Raspberry Pi that showed electricity use across the university, plus VBA scripts that automated energy reports.
Skills
AWS (ECS, EC2, Lambda, EKS, CloudWatch, Glue, MWAA, WAF, CloudFront), Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Bazel, Docker, Kubernetes, Python, TypeScript, Java, Django, Flask, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, and Linux.
My projects are on GitHub. If you want a copy of my resume, email me.
Recruiters
Hiring for a role?
I'm open to senior full-time DevOps, platform, and cloud roles, and to contract work.
- Now
- Senior DevOps Consultant, independent, since 2024
- Before
- AWS Professional Services, 2021 – 2023; led a team of six
- Stack
- AWS, Terraform, AWS CDK, ECS, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Python
- Certified
- AWS Solutions Architect Associate, AWS Developer Associate