Syed Javed Ahmed

Senior Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India6 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

5+ years of experience in DevOps and Cloud.
Expertise in AWS and Terraform for cloud solutions.
Proven track record in delivering reliable CI/CD pipelines.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps Engineer with a focus on Fintech solutions.

Contact

syed.ahmed@epsilon.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Cloud InfrastructureDevops

Other Skills

API DevelopmentAPI GatewayAWSAWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM)Amazon CloudFrontAmazon CloudWatchAmazon EC2Amazon ECSAmazon Relational Database Service (RDS)Amazon Route 53Amazon S3Amazon SQSAmazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)Amazon VPCAnsible

About

Working as a DevOps Engineer and As a Cloud enthusiast, keen on learning more, developing my skill-set and learning new tech every day! With over 5+ years of experience in DevOps and Cloud Domain providing services for Fintech projects, I have worked on a number of cloud services, built infrastructure on AWS, implemented Infrastructure as Code, Followed DevOps methodology using multiple tools and technology, building pipelines to configure automation to containerization to monitoring performances to delivering builds and releases, each challenging task has helped me hone my skills further. - Active participation in providing cloud and DevOps solutions. - Delivering satisfactory and on-time solutions. - Debugging failure. - Giving support to the Apps team for Deployments. Also, Certified in AWS, Developer Associate. Certified in Terraform, Developer Associate.

Experience

6 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 4 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 8 mos

Current Experience

Epsilon

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

As an SSE for Skynet, Central Product Engineering Team in Epsilon, I focus on developing compliant and standardized solutions across the organization. I serve as an SME in multiple domains, including Databricks infrastructure and workspace setup using Infrastructure as Code (IaC). My role also involves managing and developing centralized APIs for the secure storage and retrieval of client data, as well as enabling Okta Single Sign-On (SSO) for secure access, all within a serverless architecture hosted on AWS. I also monitor logs and API performance, refining solutions and APIs to enhance response times and improve logging where necessary.
The Skynet motto continues: Making automation easy and adaptable across Epsilon.
Daily Tasks:
Evaluate and assess AWS and Azure services to identify optimal solutions for our product engineering team.
Develop and maintain reusable Terraform modules to streamline infrastructure deployment.
Collaborate with the product engineering team to understand their deployment challenges and deliver reliable solutions.
Work with technical leads and architects to identify and implement solutions to product engineering challenges.
Contribute to the success of projects by leveraging enterprise tools and best practices in DevOps and Cloud Engineering.

AWSTerraformAPI DevelopmentInfrastructure as CodeSingle Sign-OnServerless Architecture+2

Software Engineer 2

Sep 2022 – Sep 2024 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Part of the Epsilon Product Engineering team, Skynet.
Responsible for developing, managing, and implementing multi-cloud Infrastructure as Code framework (IaC).
Providing Cloud solutions across different product teams maintaining Epsilon standards.
Building IAC Microservices as part of Skynet Product, and providing them through serverless architecture on AWS, using API gateway.
Making automation easy and adaptable across Epsilon.
Working in an agile scrum environment,
Daily activities include -
Evaluating services of AWS & Azure and use Terraform to develop re-usable modules.
Working across product engineering team to learn about their deployment challenges and
help them overcome by delivering reliable solution.

AWSTerraformAPI GatewayInfrastructure as CodeServerless ArchitectureCloud Infrastructure+1

Capgemini

4 roles

Associate Consultant / DevOps

Apr 2022 – Aug 2022 · 4 mos

Continued work for HSBC, client. Migrating more Microservices from on-prem servers to AWS. Worked on building Infrastructure on AWS with terraform to maintain for future fault. Migrated Java apps to AWS infra and built a robust CICD pipelines for the same.
Daily tasks include ->
Building Tf scripts in accordance with AWS Infrastructure.
Working on AWS Services like EC2, VPC, Load Balancers, VPC, Subnets, S3 etc.
Debugging failures and errors.
Supporting Apps team with Cloud services and operations.
Configuring CI/CD Pipelines and automating them with Ansible for consistent Build and Releases.
Containerizing microservices using Docker.
Using Maven as a build tool and Jenkins server for implementing CI/CD Pipelines.

AWSTerraformCI/CD PipelinesDockerAnsibleDevOps+1

Senior Software Engineer / DevOps

Promoted

Jun 2020 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos

Cloud Platform Engineer / Infrastructure Developer / DevOps Engineer
Worked for HSBC, client. Migrating on-prem servers to AWS. Worked on building Infrastructure on AWS with terraform to maintain for future fault. Migrated Java apps to AWS infra and built a robust CICD pipelines for the same.
Worked on DevOps Methodology and Tools.
Built CI/CD Pipelines for continuous build and releases on Jenkins with different stages - build, test, release and monitor .
Containerization using Docker.
Containers Orchestration/ Scaling using Kubernates
Implemented Automation and configuration using Ansible.
Worked on various AWS services like EC2, VPC, S3 etc
Provisioned cloud infrastructure to implement IAC using Terraform.