Versatile DevOps and Platform Engineering expert with 18+ years of hands-on experience designing scalable cloud-native solutions, Kubernetes-first architectures, and AI-integrated developer platforms. Adept at leading cross-functional teams.
- DevSecOps Lead & Platform Architect at VivSoft / AIML2 (2021-09-13 – Present)
- Led the architecture and development of Open Source platform ENBUILD a human-centered UI accelerator that simplifies and automates the deployment of P1's Big Bang DevSecOps platform enabling secure, compliant, and rapid Kubernetes-based software factory setups across cloud or on-premises environments
- Principal Cloud Architect at Hitachi Vantara / ReanCloud (2016-09-21 – 2021-09-09)
- Led the global DevSecOps transformation for REAN's accelerator platform, driving its migration to Kubernetes with scalable CI/CD, air-gapped deployments, and federal-grade compliance.
- Senior Manager - Technical Operations at Mode Media Corporation / Ning Inc (2012-10-25 – 2016-09-21)
- Led infrastructure operations, cloud migration, and site reliability engineering for a high-traffic media platform serving over 200M monthly users.
- Team Lead - Technical Operations at Cybage Software (2007-04-05 – 2012-10-12)
- Led infrastructure operations and delivery transitions for clients in media, travel and e-commerce sectors.
- Technical Support Engineer at DX Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (2005-02-24 – 2005-10-31)
- Provided L2-L3 technical support for Linux server environments and application monitoring solutions
- Cloud & Platform Engineering: AWS (Commercial & GovCloud), Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Architecture, Cloud-Native Platforms, Air-Gapped Infrastructure, Internal Developer Platforms (IDP) Engineering, Backstage Developer Portal, Infrastructure Cost Optimization
- Linux, Systems & Infrastructure Administration: Linux System Administration, Shell Scripting, System Monitoring & Hardening, Configuration Management (Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
- Kubernetes & Container Orchestration: Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE, RKE2, K3S, OKE), Development of Helm Charts & Custom Kubernetes Operators, Service Mesh (Istio, Linkerd), OPA Gatekeeper, Kyverno, Platform One Big Bang, Docker, ECS , Compose and Swarm
- DevSecOps, GitOps & Automation: GitOps (fluxCD, ArgoCD), CI/CD Pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Crossplane), Secrets Management (Vault, SOPS)
- Observability, Monitoring & SRE: Prometheus & Grafana, OpenTelemetry, KubeVela, Kubernetes Dashboard and Headlamp, Nagios, Check_MK, Datadog, Jaeger & Distributed Tracing, ELK Stack, Fluentd, Loki, Alerting & Incident Management (PagerDuty, OpsGenie), SLOs, SLIs, Error Budgets
- Security & Compliance: DISA STIG Compliance, CIS Benchmarks, Container Security (Trivy, Twistlock, Anchore), Infrastructure Security Scanning (Checkov, tfsec), RBAC, Network Policies, Zero Trust Architecture, Vulnerability Management, Security Automation
- AI/ML & LLM Integration: Kubeflow , MLFlow, LangChain, LangFlow, LLM Agents, OpenAI API, HuggingFace Transformers, Prompt Engineering, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Vector Databases (Chroma, Pinecone), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
- Programming, Scripting & APIs: Python, Golang, Bash, REST & gRPC API Development, IaC Scripting (Terraform, YAML), Automation Workflows
- Product & Team Leadership: Internal Developer Platform (IDP) Design, Cross-Functional Team Leadership, Mentoring & Coaching, Stakeholder Communication, Agile & Scrum Practices, Roadmap Planning & Delivery, Hiring & Performance Reviews, Conflict Resolution
- Certified Kubernetes Developer (CKAD) from Linux Foundation (2020-11-24) – https://www.youracclaim.com/badges/39b75d40-5a4b-46c9-965a-5cbc86abec9f/public_url
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) from Linux Foundation (2018-10-16) – https://www.youracclaim.com/badges/39b75d40-5a4b-46c9-965a-5cbc86abec9f/public_url
- AWS SysOps Administrator – Associate from Amazon Web Services (2018-07-11) – https://www.youracclaim.com/badges/9a441b51-6587-4135-a664-0e504c73d317/public_url
- AWS Solutions Architect – Associate from Amazon Web Services (2018-06-27) – https://www.youracclaim.com/badges/988261f3-7e65-4700-ad70-1be5fd3c854c/public_url
- ITIL V3 Foundation from EXIM (2011-10) – https://github.com/junaid18183/junaid18183/blob/main/juned-memon-ITILV3-certificate.pdf
- ENBUILD – ENBUILD is a turnkey DevSecOps platform simplifying Kubernetes and Platform One Big Bang deployments across multi-cloud and on-premise environments.
- Hitachi Accelerator Cloud Platform (HCAP) – HCAP is a suite of products to accelerate the migration and deployment, assessment of applications on Public Clouds.
- Terradata TMC – At REAN Cloud, contributed to the design and implementation of an automated, API-driven provisioning system with a management UI for deploying VLAN-segregated TMC application instances across IntelliFlex™, IntelliBase™, and AWS for the Teradata TMC team.
- LiteNing – LiteNing was an effort to merge the infrastructure and tooling of Ning Inc and mode media/glam media, after it was acquired.
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