Khizar Baig

I am a DevOps Engineer and a Computer Science student with hands-on experience in cloud systems, containerization, and automation using AWS, Docker, GitLab CI/CD, and Bash scripting. My proven ability to design high-availability systems, create monitoring dashboards with Prometheus and Grafana, and deploy applications with zero downtime demonstrates my commitment to achieving technological excellence.

DevOps Engineer Intern at University of Lahore (2026-02 – Present)

• Linux (Ubuntu): Administered Linux system, user management, cron jobs, and file permissions using Bash scripts.
• Docker: Engineered Dockerfile and Docker Compose files to containerize MERN stack apps, optimizing development workflow and reducing environment setup time by 70%.
• CI/CD Pipelines: Designed and implemented automated GitLab CI/CD pipelines for 5+ projects to eliminate manual deployment steps.
• High Availability: Architected a 2-node cluster with HAProxy and Keepalived to mitigate single points of failure and ensure high availability.
• Prometheus & Grafana: Deployed monitoring stacks with custom dashboards to track server performance in real time.
• AWS Cloud: Managed EC2, S3, EBS, EFS, and storage to deploy and manage containerized workloads.
• Kubernetes: Explored container orchestration utilizing Kubernetes features including Deployment, ReplicaSets, Pods, Service, Ingress, ConfigMaps & Secrets, Volumes, StatefulSets and K8s Architecture.

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (BSCS) – University of Lahore (2022 – 2026)