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Saqib Ali

Principal DevOps / MLOps Transformation Leader

Multi-Cloud & SRE specialist with 13+ years transforming enterprise infrastructure. Expert in Kubernetes, AWS, and DevOps practices driving measurable business impact.

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Professional Experience

13+ years of enterprise infrastructure solutions

Sr. SRE / Platform Engineer

Bank of America

01/2023 – Present

  • • Deploying observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, EKS)
  • • Reduced incident detection by 5%
  • • 60% reduction in repeat incidents via RCA

Senior DevOps Engineer

Fiserv

01/2021 – 12/2022

  • • IaC using Terraform & Ansible (AWS & Azure)
  • • Docker/Kubernetes containerization (AKS)
  • • 25% application efficiency increase

DevOps Engineer

Federal Reserve Board

09/2019 – 12/2020

  • • Cloudera Hadoop Cluster management
  • • Datadog APM across 200+ apps
  • • ITGC compliance (SOX, ISO 27001, NIST)

DevOps Engineer

Avalon Bay Communities

04/2015 – 09/2019

  • • Oracle 11g to 12c upgrade
  • • Kafka & Nginx management
  • • NetBackup 7.7 administration

Systems Administrator

Media Matters for America

04/2011 – 03/2015

  • • 200+ servers infrastructure
  • • Puppet configuration management
  • • Splunk & Dynatrace monitoring

Hadoop / Linux Admin

Worldwide Tech Services

10/2009 – 03/2011

  • • Hadoop cluster management
  • • HA for Namenode, Resource Manager
  • • Hive, HBase, Pig, Sqoop
13+
Years
200+
Systems
60%
Incident Reduction
25%
Efficiency Gain
5%
Faster Detection
99.9%
Uptime

Case Studies

Real-world solutions with measurable impact

DevOps & CI/CD

Multi-Cloud Infrastructure as Code

Manual provisioning causing inconsistent environments. Built Terraform modules for AWS & Azure.

Terraform Ansible AWS Azure
70% Faster 100% IaC
Kubernetes

Legacy App Containerization

Monolithic apps with long deploy times. Containerized Spring Boot apps on AKS/EKS.

Docker Kubernetes Helm
25% Efficient Auto-scale
Observability

Enterprise Monitoring Stack

200+ K8s clusters lacking visibility. Deployed Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic Stack.

Prometheus Grafana EKS
5% Faster 99.9% Uptime
Security

PCI-DSS Compliance

Payment systems needing PCI compliance. Automated security scanning & OS hardening.

PCI-DSS SELinux Nessus
Compliant Zero Violations
HA & DR

Disaster Recovery Automation

4+ hour manual DR processes. Automated failover with CloudFormation & Route53.

AWS Lambda Terraform
15 Min RTO 99.99% Avail
MLOps

AI/ML Infrastructure

Data science team lacking GPU infrastructure. Set up Kubeflow with NVIDIA GPUs.

Kubeflow Kubernetes Python
3x Faster +40% Productivity

Technical Skills

Expertise across enterprise infrastructure

Cloud

AWS Azure GCP EKS AKS

Containers

Kubernetes Docker Helm OpenShift

CI/CD

Jenkins GitLab GitHub Actions CircleCI

IaC

Terraform Ansible Puppet Chef

Monitoring

Prometheus Grafana Datadog Splunk

Security

PCI-DSS SOX NIST OWASP

Scripting

Python Bash PowerShell Go

Databases

MySQL PostgreSQL Oracle Hadoop

Let's Transform Your Infrastructure

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