Muhammad R.

DevOps Engineer

New York City, New York, United States5 yrs 9 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Cut AWS bill by 50%, saving $30K annually.
  • Reduced deployment time from hours to minutes.
  • Migrated legacy infrastructure to Infrastructure as Code.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps expert with a focus on cost optimization and automation.

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Skills

Core Skills

AwsDevopsFull-stack DevelopmentSoftware EngineeringCloud ComputingMachine Learning

Other Skills

AWS ServicesInfrastructure as CodeCI/CDContainerization & OrchestrationMonitoring & ObservabilityJenkinsDockerTerraformCost OptimizationPythonReact.jsScalaSQLClient RelationsJava

About

I help engineering teams build reliable cloud infrastructure and ship faster. Whether you're migrating to AWS, struggling with slow deployments, or watching your cloud bill climb — I've seen it before and can help you fix it. What I do: → Cloud Architecture — Design and build AWS environments from scratch → CI/CD Pipelines — Automate deployments so your team ships daily, not monthly → Infrastructure as Code — Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK done right → Cost Optimization — Find the "ghost infrastructure" eating your budget → Team Enablement — Help your engineers understand and own their cloud Recent results: • Cut a client's AWS bill by 50% ($30K annual savings) • Reduced deployment time from hours to minutes with automated pipelines • Migrated legacy infrastructure to IaC, eliminating manual drift Background: • 5+ years in cloud infrastructure and DevOps • 3x AWS Certified (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, Cloud Practitioner) • Worked with startups and enterprises across fintech, e-commerce, and SaaS Not sure where to start? Let's talk. 📅 Free 30-min consultation: calendly.com/muhammad-07/30-minute-meeting

Experience

5 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 3 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

New frontier data

Full Stack Engineer

Oct 2024Apr 2026 · 1 yr 6 mos · Washington DC-Baltimore Area · Remote

  • - Working with Big Data, and Building Web APIs
PythonReact.jsFull-Stack Development

Freelance | self-employed

Senior DevOps Consultant

Jul 2024Present · 1 yr 10 mos · New York, United States · Remote

  • DevOps Engineer specializing in AWS cloud infrastructures and backend development. I am an expert in designing, building, and maintaining highly scalable server-side solutions with a strong focus on efficiency and industry best practices.
  • CORE TECHNICAL SKILLS
  • Backend Development: Java, Python, JavaScript | Spring Boot, Express.js, Flask, Django
  • Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MariaDB, Redis
  • API Development: RESTful architecture and integration
  • AWS & DEVOPS
  • AWS Services: ECS, EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS
  • Infrastructure as Code: CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Terraform
  • Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, ECS, ECR, EKS
  • CI/CD: GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD
  • Serverless: AWS Lambda, Step Functions
  • Monitoring & Observability: AWS CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus
  • KEY ACHIEVEMENTS:
  • 1. Modernized deployment processes by implementing Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines with Docker integration, significantly reducing deployment time.
  • 2. Redesigned AWS architecture using Terraform, implementing robust security measures and best practices.
  • 3. Developed cost optimization solutions through resource analysis scripts, identifying and implementing significant cost-saving opportunities
AWS ServicesInfrastructure as CodeCI/CDContainerization & OrchestrationMonitoring & ObservabilityAWS+1

Flextrade

Software Engineer (BuySide)

Jul 2023Jul 2024 · 1 yr · Great Neck, New York, United States · Hybrid

  • Provided daily live support and troubleshooting for trading systems, strategies, and market data issues
  • Analyzed and resolved application issues thereby improving client satisfaction by 30% and reduction in backlog services by 40%
  • Developed automation scripts in python enhancing team efficiency, therefore resulting in less manual work
  • Handled client relations for multiple hedge fund clients with assets under management (AUM) exceeding $1 billion
  • On-boarded several brokers, including CITI, JPM, Arcesium, and others, for our hedge fund clients onto our OMS.
  • Analyzed and created reports using SQL and Pandas scrutinizing trade discrepancies for clients.
  • Trained new employees on OMS domain expertise and support standards, increasing team performance
  • Developed custom features using Scala into our OMS based on client requirements
PythonScalaSQLClient RelationsSoftware Engineering

Amazon web services (aws)

3 roles

Professional Services - Application Developer

Promoted

Jun 2022Jul 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo · New York City Metropolitan Area · Hybrid

  • 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 AWSCodeDeployApplication, EC2Volume, and IAMInstanceProfile, which are currently utilized by millions of customers.
  • Streamlined project documentation, reducing onboarding time from 3 months to just 1 month, enabling faster developer onboarding and project ramp-up.
  • Implemented automation scripts that significantly reduced deployment efforts, automated tedious tasks, and streamlined the deployment process, resulting in a notable decrease in manual efforts.
  • Successfully led a team of six developers as a tenured consultant on the project, overseeing the seamless migration of High Usage CloudFormation resources onto CloudFormation Registry such as Lamba Resource , and EC2 Resources.
  • Apart from my customer work, I also mentored new hires on the team, enabling them to quickly ramp up their skills and contribute effectively to different customer projects.
PythonJavaAWS CloudFormationGitCloud Computing

Professional Services - Associate DevOps Consultant

Jul 2021Jun 2022 · 11 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area · Hybrid

  • 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.
  • Implemented CICD pipelines for the customer, reducing manual deployment efforts and streamlining the deployment process and also developed a Github Actions Template repository helping developers to setup their own CI/CD when deploying applications.
  • Our automation efforts resulted in a significant reduction in manual effort
  • Also Led Weekly Team meetings increasing team engagement while working remotely
PythonTypeScriptAWS CDKDevOps

Professional Services Intern

Jul 2020Nov 2020 · 4 mos · Chicago, Illinois, United States · Remote

  • 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.
Cloud ComputingAWS CloudFormationVue.js

Hsbc

Innovation Intern

Jan 2020May 2020 · 4 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area · On-site

  • 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.
PythonMachine LearningFlask

Jpmorgan chase & co.

Software Engineering Intern

Jun 2019Aug 2019 · 2 mos · Greater Chicago Area

  • 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.
  • 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.

City university of new york

Software Engineer Intern

Jun 2018May 2019 · 11 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

  • Implemented new features in existing Django web app.
  • Wrote unit tests for various testcases.
  • Wrote Python scripts to automate workflow such as creating database backups.
  • Wrote Excel VBA Scripts to automate reporting.

Queens college

Tech Incubator Staff

Oct 2017Nov 2019 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Flushing, New York

  • Provide technical support to incubator member companies and external clients;
  • Provide technology training and support to incubator interns;
  • Work with the project manager and project teams to prototype and implement technology solutions;

Mel09

Ecommerce Intern

Jan 2017Sep 2017 · 8 mos · New York, New York

  • Helped the company to establish an e commerce website
  • Assisted in managing inventories for Amazon FBA
  • Developed SEO strategies to boost up the sales
  • Developed Email Marketing Campaigns
  • Described product to customers and accurately explained details and care of merchandise.

Wayup

Campus Representative

Sep 2016Dec 2016 · 3 mos · New York, New York

  • Created effective messaging using language, graphics and marketing collateral.
  • Used different marketing strategies to attract students to signup for the website using social media.
  • developed online marketing campaigns to generate sign ups

Alice & trixie

Studio Intern

Jul 2016Aug 2016 · 1 mo · Greater New York City Area

  • Managed and updated inventories using Microsoft Excel
  • Managed Shopify
  • Performed various tasks such as answering phone calls and shipping their shipments
  • Gained essential knowledge of working in fashion field.

Education

Queens College

Bachelor of Science (BS) — Computer Science

Jan 2016Jan 2020

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