Arslan Mushtaq

Results-driven Senior DevOps Engineer with 5+ years of hands-on experience architecting, automating, and scaling cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure. Deep expertise in CI/CD pipeline design, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, container orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes (ECS/EKS), configuration management, and enterprise-grade observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK Stack. Demonstrated track record of driving measurable impact: 40% reduction in deployment effort, 30% decrease in manual operational overhead, and 20% improvement in MTTR.

Skilled in DevSecOps, GitOps, SOC2 compliance, cloud security hardening, release management, incident response, and cost optimization. Experienced in leading cross-functional engineering teams in high-growth SaaS environments.

Senior DevOps Engineer at ThingTrax (2023-05 – Present)

IoT SaaS Platform

• Architected and managed AWS cloud infrastructure (EC2, ECS, EKS, VPC, IAM, RDS, CloudWatch) supporting 30+ production servers across multi-region, high-availability environments, maintaining 99.9% uptime SLA.
• Designed and owned end-to-end Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines for 11 microservices, reducing deployment effort by 40% and enabling zero-downtime continuous delivery.
• Provisioned and version-controlled all cloud infrastructure using Terraform (IaC) and implemented GitOps workflows with ArgoCD, enabling repeatable, auditable, and drift-free deployments.
• Containerized and orchestrated 11 microservices using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS/ECS) with Helm charts, improving deployment consistency and environment parity across dev, staging, and production.
• Built a full observability stack with Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK Stack including custom dashboards and alerting rules, reducing mean time to incident resolution (MTTR) by 20%.
• Automated configuration management and operational workflows using Ansible, Python, and Bash scripting, cutting manual operational effort by 30% and eliminating repetitive toil.
• Implemented DevSecOps practices: IAM least-privilege policies, RBAC, Secrets Manager, security scanning, and SOC2 compliance controls across all production environments.
• Managed on-call incident response rotation, performing root cause analysis (RCA), runbook creation, and post-incident reviews to drive continuous reliability improvements.

Software Engineer at ThingTrax (2022-05 – 2023-05)

IoT SaaS Platform

• Developed and maintained enterprise backend application features with focus on cloud-readiness, reliability, and performance at scale.
• Contributed to CI/CD pipeline migration from manual releases to automated GitHub Actions workflows, supporting the DevOps transformation initiative.
• Built backend API integrations and microservices, improving system reliability, reducing error rates, and contributing to overall platform operational efficiency.
• Collaborated with DevOps and infrastructure teams on Dockerization of services and deployment automation, accelerating the adoption of containerized workloads.

Full Stack Developer at Popular Chemical Works (2020-10 – 2022-05)

ERP & Business Applications

• Designed and developed MERN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, Node.js) web applications for internal ERP and business operations.
• Delivered ERP customizations and process automation solutions using scripting, reducing manual data entry and streamlining supply chain and inventory workflows.
• Architected RESTful APIs and responsive front-end interfaces, improving system performance and enabling real-time reporting dashboards for business stakeholders.

Bachelor of Computer Science in Computer Science – Superior College, Lahore, Pakistan (2016 – 2020)