Hamza Shaukat

Cloud DevOps Engineer with hands-on experience building production-grade Kubernetes infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code pipelines, and automated testing frameworks for enterprise clients across Europe and North America. Recognized as Star Performer (2025) at Xgrid.co. AWS triple-certified with a track record of measurable impact: reduced EKS observability costs by 21% while increasing metrics volume 30x, engineered zero-data-loss Terraform migrations, and restored 100% CI reliability on GitLab pipelines.

Cloud DevOps Engineer at Xgrid.co (2024-09 – Present)

CHKK (Stealth-mode Product – Kubernetes Platform)

• Curated CHKK's Kubernetes Knowledge Graph by mapping 100s of Kubernetes add-ons (Istio, ArgoCD, CertManager, Cilium etc) through Helm chart templates, Docker image registries, and upstream release policies.
• Authored Go-based curation files defining version schemes, Kubernetes compatibility matrices, and image-detection regex patterns to power CHKK's cluster-scanning engine for pre-upgrade breakage alerts.

Consultant at Copebit AG (2024 – Present)

Acting as a core engineering extension for Copebit AG (Switzerland), building scalable Infrastructure as Code solutions and automated testing frameworks. Recognized as Star Performer (2025).

• Cloud Cost Optimization: Reduced AWS EKS observability spend by 21% while increasing metrics volume 30x by migrating to a modern bulk-ingestion model. (Technical Deep Dive: How We Got 30x More EKS Metrics While Slashing Client Costs.)
• Kubernetes & GitOps Architecture: Provisioned production-grade Kubernetes clusters (AWS EKS) for clients (including dexu.ai, itsense) using modular Terraform. Implemented FluxCD to enforce GitOps workflows, ensuring secure, drift-free configuration updates and automated application delivery across multi-tenant environments.
• Enterprise Infrastructure Provisioning: Built secure AWS multi-account environments for European clients including Open Systems, Novative, and Vertec; migrated legacy workloads to a private Tofu Registry and resolved complex IAM dependency issues.
• Infrastructure as Code & Migrations: Engineered a zero-data-loss migration strategy for critical Terraform modules (AWS Backup, Config) across major versions (v4.x → v7.x). Utilized advanced state manipulation (moved blocks, tofu state rm) to resolve circular dependencies in IAM and SQS, preserving years of critical customer data.
• Automated Testing (Terratest/Go): Built a Terratest/Go testing framework for OpenTofu modules with recursive test discovery and sequential multi-suite integration testing.
• CI/CD Engineering: Restored 100% CI reliability by fixing GitLab pipeline inheritance and YAML merge issues.

Cloud Instructor (Part-Time) at Cloud College (2025-01 – Present)

• Delivering comprehensive cloud training to international professionals, focusing on helping clients achieve AWS and Azure certifications.
• Produced in-depth technical curriculum and video lectures on Azure infrastructure. View Sample Lectures (YouTube Playlist)

Azure/AWS Cloud Freelancer (2024 – 2025)

• AI & Computer Vision: Developed and deployed AI solutions on Azure, including "PakWaan" (AI Recipe Scanner) and a Watermark Detector utilizing Custom Vision trained on 10,000+ images.
• Containerization: Containerized and hosted real-time detection models (Liveness, ASL) and "Nineteedy" (Instagram replica) using Docker, deploying scalable computer vision models to Azure Cloud.

Software Engineer at Grayphite (2023-06 – 2023-09)

• Developed backend APIs using Python and Django Rest Framework (DRF) with a focus on scalable server-side architecture.
• Worked on Azure DevOps and cloud infrastructure.

AWS Trainee at Bytewise Limited (2023-03 – 2023-05)

• Gained hands-on experience in AWS server provisioning, load balancing, and serverless architecture (Lambda).
• Implemented S3 storage solutions and EC2 instance management for scalable web applications.

Bachelor's in Software Engineering – University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila