Milad Nami

DevOps Engineer with 7+ years of experience building and operating production infrastructure across Linux, Kubernetes, and distributed systems. Experienced in Kubernetes platform engineering, cloud-native migrations, GitOps-based delivery, and infrastructure automation. Hands-on experience operating PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, Cassandra, and large-scale Linux environments, with a strong focus on reliability, observability, and disaster recovery.

DevOps Engineer at TapsiGarage (2025-01 – Present)

• Scaled and operated production Kubernetes infrastructure by 50% to support business growth and microservices adoption.
• Migrated monolithic and stateful workloads from standalone Linux servers to Kubernetes, improving infrastructure standardization and operational scalability.
• Designed and implemented GitOps-based CI/CD workflows using ArgoCD and Helm across multiple environments.
• Improved deployment speed by 30% through CI/CD optimization, multi-stage builds, image caching, and container registry management with Nexus/Harbor.
• Managed Kubernetes platform components including NGINX Ingress Controller, Istio service mesh, and Longhorn distributed storage.
• Designed and operated production PostgreSQL HA using streaming replication, with monitoring for replication lag and database locks.
• Implemented PostgreSQL backup, Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR), and disaster recovery workflows with backups stored in a separate datacenter.
• Built CDC pipelines using PostgreSQL WAL, Debezium, Kafka, and ClickHouse for downstream data processing.
• Operated highly available Redis deployments using replication and Sentinel, with separate deployments for cache and idempotency workloads.
• Operated production Apache Kafka clusters on Kubernetes using the Strimzi Operator.
• Implemented production observability using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and Alertmanager for monitoring, logging, and alerting.
• Developed infrastructure backup and disaster recovery strategies and participated in on-call operations and incident response across production systems.

DevOps Consultant (Part-time) at Arshinco (2023-08 – 2025-01)

• Consulted on infrastructure design, deployment, backup, and disaster recovery for physical server environments and production services.
• Supported migration from traditional service-based deployments to containerized infrastructure using Docker and Docker Compose, improving deployment consistency and operational efficiency.
• Improved CI/CD and DevOps practices through deployment automation, infrastructure modernization, and collaboration with engineering teams; advised on infrastructure security using pfSense and Kerio Control.

DevOps Engineer at Kosar (2023-05 – 2024-11)

• Participated in migration from Docker Compose-based deployments to Kubernetes infrastructure and supported production containerized workloads.
• Implemented GitOps-based deployment workflows to improve deployment consistency and operational efficiency.
• Built centralized monitoring and logging using Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK Stack for production environments.
• Operated Linux-based infrastructure and containerized services, including infrastructure security and firewall solutions using pfSense and Kerio Control.

DevOps Engineer at Institute of Intelligent Applied Systems (2019-02 – 2023-03)

• Managed large-scale Linux infrastructure consisting of approximately 800 virtual machines and 200 physical servers as part of a 17-member infrastructure team.
• Supported production Cassandra clusters, troubleshooting storage and compaction-related operational challenges.
• Participated in migration of approximately 80TB of data from Cassandra-based storage to Ceph distributed object storage.
• Migrated CI/CD workflows from Jenkins to GitLab CI/CD and automated infrastructure configuration and operational tasks using Ansible.
• Built infrastructure monitoring and operational visibility using Zabbix, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Configured and maintained infrastructure networking, including Cisco switches, routing, and enterprise firewall solutions.

System Administrator at Tehran Institute of Technology (Mirdamad Branch) (2017-10 – 2019-02)

• Administered Windows Server infrastructure including Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, WSUS, and WDS.
• Maintained Linux servers, web services, and firewall infrastructure.

Network Administrator at Tehran Institute of Technology (Pirouzi Branch) (2016-08 – 2017-10)

• Configured and maintained Cisco switching and MikroTik routing infrastructure.
• Troubleshot network connectivity and infrastructure-related issues.

B.S. in Software Engineering – Azad University (Tehran North Branch) (2015 – 2020)