Ashraful Alam

VP of Engineering

United Kingdom6 yrs 2 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Led migration of 300+ accounts to new OU structure.
  • Achieved 99.99% uptime for web applications.
  • Reduced cloud expenditure by £253K annually.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Engineer with expertise in AWS and DevOps practices.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical Project LeadershipAmazon Web Services (aws)Continuous Integration And Continuous Delivery (ci/cd)Cloud SupportMicrosoft Azure

Other Skills

TerraformBashGitGithub actionsLeadershipPeer MentoringOffice 365 AdministrationAzure DevOpsMicrosoft ExchangeComputer NetworkingPowershellDomain Name System (DNS)InfrastructureJiraWindows Server

About

*Sorry I can't help you to introduce a product in our org, please reach out to our Head/Director of engineering. * I'm Ashraful Alam, a seasoned Cloud Engineer and a recognized technology leader in the cloud industry. As an AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Practitioner, and FinOps Certified Practitioner, I've led and delivered complex cloud projects with a proven track record of success. In my current role as Lead Cloud Engineer at Legal & General, I've spearheaded significant projects, including the migration of 300+ accounts to a new OU structure. I've optimized pipelines and influenced team culture to increase release cycles, and I've taken ownership of the security assessment of our solutions, ensuring adherence to best practice security techniques. Previously, as a Cloud/DevOps Engineer at Wilko, I executed cost-saving measures that resulted in an annual reduction of £253K in cloud expenditure. I developed tailored, cost intelligent dashboards to promote team accountability and informed decision-making. I also implemented stringent user access controls, significantly elevating the organization's security posture. At Semantic Logic, I designed and built highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable architectures that facilitated businesses' transition from on-premises to AWS. I utilized various AWS services to improve web application resiliency and uptime, achieving a 99.99% uptime target. As a Cloud Support Engineer at Microsoft, I assisted customers with Microsoft 365 cloud-based product adoption, including migration strategy from on-premises to cloud, disaster recovery, and cost optimization. In addition to my professional roles, I'm a DevOps Ambassador at the DevOps Institute and a FinOps Practitioner at the FinOps Foundation. I spearhead initiatives, generate content, and advocate for best practices in cloud financial management. I also have a network of 11K+ professionals on LinkedIn, where I share insights and best practices. Feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn or reach out via email at ashrafulalam2k@gmail.com.

Experience

Legal & general

3 roles

Engineering Lead, AWS Cloud Foundation Engineering

Promoted

Oct 2025Present · 5 mos

  • Almost a year ago I moved from Senior Engineer to Technical Lead.
  • Throughout this period, I went beyond solving only technical challenges for the team. I helped multiple teams to scale up with efficient interviewing methods and hiring, mentoring juniors and leading projects.
  • As a result, I got recognized in the organization and now I have moved to different team to lead not only technical parts, but the team as a whole and all it's deliverables.
  • (Celebrating small wins, it's a lateral shift)

Technical Lead, AWS Cloud Foundation Engineering

Jul 2024Oct 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos

Technical Project Leadership

Senior Cloud Engineer, AWS Cloud Foundation Engineering

Nov 2023Jul 2024 · 8 mos

  • Delivering large, clean, maintainable features, resolving complex end-to-end issues, and defining new approaches where applicable, to deliver valuable features to our customers
  • Creating automated test approaches and strategies to maintain an appropriate quality level within your team, and thus deliver solutions which work well for all our customers
  • Leading code reviews with an emphasis on non-functional requirements and adherence to architectural principles, to ensure that we consistently deliver high-quality software to our customers
  • Taking ownership over the security assessment of the team’s solutions, and ensuring that best practice security techniques are followed, so that the Company and our customers keep our and their data as safe as possible
  • Using metrics to make data-driven decisions to continuously improve the team's approaches to deployment, monitoring, and operations, so that we can easily release and run performant and resilient systems in production
  • Taking ownership over the team’s continuous improvement, by actively improving the team's events, processes, and culture, to ensure that your team stays productive and effective
  • Managing, motivating and develop employees at all levels to maximise the performance of the area. Coaching and mentoring mid-level developers to broaden their responsibilities, improve their skills and remove their own blockers, by sharing experiences, successes and failures.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)TerraformBashGitGithub actionsContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)+2

Ostad

Lead DevOps Instructor

Feb 2025Jun 2025 · 4 mos

  • Training 90+ Bangladeshi Engineers in DevOps.

Docker, inc

Docker Captain

Sep 2024Present · 1 yr 6 mos

Peoplecert

DevOps Institute Ambassador

Sep 2024Present · 1 yr 6 mos

Topmate.io

Professional Mentor

Sep 2024Present · 1 yr 6 mos

Wilko

DevOps Engineer

Apr 2023Nov 2023 · 7 mos · Greater London, England, United Kingdom · Remote

Finops foundation

FinOps Ambassador

Sep 2020Aug 2023 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Semantic logic

Platform Engineer

Sep 2020Mar 2023 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • ●Designed and built highly available, fault-tolerant, scalable architectures that facilitated the transition of businesses from on-prem to AWS, resulting in cost savings and improved performance.
  • ●Improved web application resiliency and uptime by utilising various AWS services such as Elastic Beanstalk, EC2, ELB, ASGs, and CloudFront, achieving 99.99% uptime target and significantly reducing downtime.
  • ●Improved infrastructure and application observability and reliability by shipping logs to AWS CloudWatch, and implementing real-time alerts and notifications through AWS EventBridge, SNS, Lambda, and Slack API.
  • ●Implemented S3 storage solutions and policies that improved data security, durability, and availability, while reducing storage costs by 20%.
  • ●Developed and maintained Jenkins continuous integration pipelines to streamline developers' creation of Docker images and software packages, resulting in improved development efficiency and speed.
  • ●Captured all the infrastructure state as code using Terraform, which improved code consistency, versioning, auditability, and reusability leading to more efficient and reliable infrastructure.
  • ●Implemented AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) to deploy containerized applications, improving scalability and reducing infrastructure management overhead.
  • ●Collaborated with stakeholders and cross-functional teams in an agile manner to ensure the quality of the software and deadlines of critical deliverables were met with expectations.

Xuetangx

Lead Teaching Assistant

Feb 2020Jun 2020 · 4 mos · Remote

  • ● Served as the lead teaching assistant for the "Data Structures and Algorithm (DSA)" course at the
  • International Knowledge Centre for Engineering Education under the auspices of UNESCO.
  • ● Mentored students and incorporated their feedback to restructure module materials, which led to a
  • 37% increase in student engagement compared to previous cohorts.
  • ● Led a team of other TAs as the Super TA, assigning tasks and providing feedback to ensure the
  • successful completion of their duties.
  • ● Developed and executed a promotion plan for the MOOC course among international students across
  • Chinese universities, resulting in a 20% increase in enrollment for the next cohort.

Microsoft

Cloud Support Engineer

Dec 2019Aug 2020 · 8 mos

  • ● Assisted customers from across the globe with Microsoft 365 cloud-based product adoption,
  • including migration strategy from on-prem to cloud, disaster recovery, and cost optimisation
  • ● Troubleshot and maintained various Office 365 products, such as Exchange mailboxes, Azure
  • AD, On-prem AD, Sharepoint, and Teams, ensuring optimal performance and availability.
  • ● Enhanced email security, delivery rates, and accuracy by implementing transport rules and
  • utilising various DNS configurations, such as SPF, DKIM, and DMARC; this resulted in a
  • reduction of phishing emails, increased resiliency, and improved overall security.
  • ● Deployed and configured Azure AD and Azure ADFS to integrate with Office 365, reducing
  • user set-up time, authentication overhead, and IdP licensing fees, while also providing secure
  • and seamless access to cloud services.
  • ● Integrated Azure DevOps with Microsoft Teams, enabling notifications and alerts from build
  • steps to release, accelerating software delivery, and improving the overall development
  • lifecycle.
  • ● Participated in incident management and root cause analysis, using monitoring and diagnostic
  • tools to quickly identify and resolve issues, report and handle L2 escalation, and minimize user
  • impact.
  • ● Achieved a 40% increase in the rate of first-contact resolution of customer issues and a 31%
  • improvement in customer retention by meeting SLAs and follow-up promises.
  • ● Documented incidents, and reported customer suggestions, and technical issues to Microsoft,
  • resulting in a 30% decrease in the average time to resolve technical issues.
  • ● Collaborated with team members and provided assistance in interviewing and training new
  • hires, resulting in a 20% improvement in team performance and a 10% reduction in employee
  • turnover
Office 365 Administrationcloud supportAzure DevOpsMicrosoft AzureMicrosoft ExchangeComputer Networking+1

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