Zain Ahmed
Senior Cloud Engineer | DevSecOps & Software Engineer | AWS & Azure
Professional Summary
Senior Cloud Engineer & DevSecOps Specialist with 7+ years of expertise in designing secure, scalable multi-cloud infrastructure and embedding security practices into CI/CD pipelines across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Proven track record of reducing security vulnerabilities by 70%, implementing shift-left security automation, and accelerating deployment cycles while maintaining 99.9% uptime. A dedicated builder of resilient, secure, and compliant cloud-native platforms.
Professional Experience
Senior Cloud, DevOps/DevSecOps Engineer
Recruited back as Principal Cloud & DevSecOps Authority. Spearheading platform evolution to multi-cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) enterprise architecture, orchestrating elite DevSecOps CI/CD strategies with GitLab CI and GitHub Actions, and mentoring 5+ engineers.
Cloud & DevOps/DevSecOps Engineer
Engineered high-velocity DevSecOps CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions, automating end-to-end build, security testing (SAST/DAST), achieving 10x reduction in manual deployment overhead. Championed IaC with reusable Terraform modules.
Senior Cloud & DevOps/DevSecOps Engineer
Led architecture for healthcare AR platform, building full-stack Node.js web platform serving 1,000+ patients with 99.9% uptime. Automated CI/CD with GitHub Actions and Terraform, embedding DevSecOps practices with zero security incidents.
Senior Software Engineer & Cloud Engineer (DevOps Focus)
Engineered main public website with mortgage calculator, managed AWS/Azure infrastructure for high availability and compliance. Owned CI/CD lifecycle using Jenkins and Docker, reducing deployment time by 60%.
Cloud & Software Engineer
Founding engineer who designed and built company's first cloud platform. Built initial Python/Go microservices on GKE, wrote foundational Terraform modules for GKE, Cloud Storage, VPCs, IAM. Established first MLOps framework with Vertex AI and Kubeflow.
Education & Credentials
Advanced Diploma in Software Engineering
Aptech Institute of Technology
Microsoft Certification Week (AZ-305, etc.)
Fast Lane
AWS DevOps Engineer – Professional
Amazon Web Services
AWS Solutions Architect – Associate
Amazon Web Services
Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
Microsoft
Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500)
Microsoft
Notable Achievements
Architected a self-healing, multi-region Kubernetes ecosystem across AWS & Azure, reducing global latency by 40% and cutting disaster recovery RTO to under 5 minutes.
National First Runner-Up for a cloud-native LMS mobile application at Contest-Azm 2020.
Engineered a microservices architecture supporting thousands of concurrent users with 99.9% uptime.
Mentored 10+ junior engineers and contributed 15+ reusable Terraform modules to internal registries.
Ready to Build Something Great?
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