Work

Hi! I’m Muhammad, a Senior DevOps Engineer and former AWS Professional Services Consultant with 5 years of experience in cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and DevOps automation. I studied Economics and Computer Science at Queens College.

On this page you can read more about my work experience. If you’d like a copy of my resume, feel free to email me.

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Currently Available for DevOps Consulting

Services I Offer:

• CI/CD Pipeline Design & Implementation (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins)
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK)
• AWS Cloud Architecture & Migration
• Container Orchestration (ECS, EKS, Kubernetes)
• Python Backend Development & Automation
• Cost Optimization & Cloud Spend Management
• Serverless Architecture (Lambda, AWS Glue, MWAA)

Notable Achievements:

• Streamlined a development agency’s entire DevOps infrastructure using Terraform, reducing their go-to-market time for launching new applications.
• Optimized AWS cloud spend from $5,000/month to $1,500 by analyzing resource usage and implementing right-sizing strategies.
• Built CI/CD pipelines and fully automated software delivery processes for multiple clients.
• Deployed complete data infrastructure via Terraform, including AWS Glue, AWS MWAA, and ETL pipeline components.

Ready to Work Together?

If you need help with CI/CD, automation, infrastructure, or Python backend development, I’d love to discuss how I can help your team.

Contact me:

• Email: muhammadraza0047@gmail.com
• X/Twitter: @muhammad_o7
• LinkedIn: Muhammad Raza

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Work Experience

Professional Services Consultant (Application Developer) @ Amazon Web Services 06/2022 - 07/2023

• Migrated CloudFormation resources onto CloudFormation Registry using Java, enabling seamless 3rd party integration with CloudFormation.
• Significantly contributed to the successful migration of high-volume AWS resources including AWS::CodeDeploy::Application, AWS::EC2::Volume, and AWS::IAM::InstanceProfile, which are currently utilized by millions of customers.
• Streamlined project documentation, reducing onboarding time from 3 months to just 1 month.
• Implemented automation scripts that significantly reduced deployment efforts and streamlined the deployment process.
• Leveraged Jupyter notebooks to streamline deployment troubleshooting and gather insights into production resources.
• Led a team of six developers, overseeing the seamless migration of CloudFormation resources onto CloudFormation Registry.
• Mentored new hires on the team, enabling them to quickly ramp up and contribute to customer projects.

Note: It’s the same role but different specialization

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Professional Services Consultant (DevOps Consultant) @ Amazon Web Services 06/2021 - 06/2022

• Collaborated with an external customer to rewrite AWS CDK constructs from Python to TypeScript.
• Leveraged JSII to convert CDK Constructs to other languages, including C# and Java, making it easier for the customer to use AWS CDK. Specifically, I rewrote the custom AWS RDS python construct in TypeScript, and then used JSII to convert it to Java and C#, significantly reducing deployment times for the customer’s DBA teams from weeks to minutes.
• Wrote CDK Constructs such as ALB+ECS Construct, helping customers deploy applications on ECS behind an ALB.
• Implemented CI/CD pipelines for the customer, reducing manual deployment efforts. Also developed a GitHub Actions template repository helping developers set up their own CI/CD pipelines.
• Led weekly team meetings, increasing team engagement while working remotely.

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Professional Services Intern @ Amazon Web Services 06/2020 - 08/2020

During my time as intern at AWS, I worked on the following:

• Collaborated with an external customer to write Cloudformation templates, enabling them to provision their infrastructure through IaC while minimizing manual effort and saving them time.
• Led the development of a proof-of-concept internal communication handbook using VueJS as the primary developed.
• Assisted my team in calculating migration costs for an external customer.

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Innovation Intern @ HSBC Holdings plc 01/2020 - 06/2020

• At HSBC I worked as an Innovation Intern within Financial Crime Risk team where I supported several projects.
• While working as an intern at HSBC. I developed a text classification model,wrote a news scraper tool and RPA solution.
• As an intern I wrote a multi-label text classification model that classified news articles into different risk categories. I was able to achieve to atleast 50% accuracy since we had limited data.
• I also developed a flask based web application that allowed to query custom news feed which catered auditors need and it also provided with articles and their summaries.
• I also developed a feature that allowed auditors to export custom newsfeed with article summaries into csv file for further data analysis.
• Furthermore, news scraper tool also provided with news publications from different regulators such as CFPB,OCC,FED and etc into a pdf report for auditors.
• Lastly I developed RPA solution that performed account reconciliation. This was a huge thing since it was able to save the time as process was done manually taking atleast 3 days.
• While working at HSBC I was able to gain knowledge about machine learning and how auditing worked especially within financial crime risk space.

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Software Engineering Intern @ JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPMC) 06/2019 - 08/2019

• During my time at JPMC I took over several tasks such as adding new features to an existing application and Deployment of machine-learning models.
• As intern I worked on adding new features to an existing search engine application that was used to index production issues. The application stack was based on SpringBoot,Angular for frontend and MariaDB.
• I also deployed machine learning models on Kubernetes that tagged production issues in the application.
• I also wrote a simple feature that sent out deployment email notifications.
• During my time as intern I also volunteered on different projects such as doing explanatory data analysis of production issues for the upper management to help them understand the most occurring issues in the production environment.
• While working as an intern I also got involved in different developer communities at JPMC such Python,RUST and DevOps.

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Software Engineering Intern @ The City University of New York (CUNY) 06/2018 - 06/2019

• While working for CUNY I worked on several tasks such as maintaing django web application, writing unittests and etc.
• As intern I developed new features in our django web application that ran on raspberry pi. It was used to visualize electricity usage throughout the CUNY organization.
• I also wrote unittests for the webapp and developed automation scripts which was used to backup database.
• While maintaining django application I also supported energy analysts by writing VBA scripts that automated the process of energy reporting.
• While this was my first internship I was able to gain new skills such as working with django,vba and postgres db.

Skills

Cloud & Infrastructure

• AWS (ECS, EC2, Lambda, EKS, CloudWatch, Glue, MWAA)
• Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK

CI/CD & Automation

• GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins
• Python scripting, Bash

Containers & Orchestration

• Docker, ECS Fargate, Kubernetes, EKS

Languages

• Python (primary), TypeScript, Java

Backend & Frameworks

• Django, Flask, FastAPI
• Pandas, Scikit-Learn

Tools

• Linux, Git, Docker

Databases

• PostgreSQL, MariaDB

Certifications

• AWS Solutions Architect Associate
• AWS Developer Associate
• AWS Cloud Practitioner

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Open Source & Projects

In my free time I read blogs/articles and participate in tech discussions. I also contribute to open source by improving documentation, working on issues, and creating resources for beginners.

Most of my projects are available on GitHub. You can view here GITHUB LINK