M Usman

Results-driven Cloud DevOps Engineer with 3+ years of hands-on experience designing, deploying, and operating cloud-native infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Proven track record managing HIPAA-compliant ECS Fargate platforms hosting 50+ microservices, building zero-downtime CI/CD pipelines, and automating infrastructure at scale using Terraform, Kubernetes, and GitHub Actions. Adept at reducing operational overhead through GitOps, IaC, and DevSecOps best practices.

Available for full-time remote roles globally.

DevOps Engineer at Brackets PVT LTD (2025-03 – Present)

• Architected and managed a HIPAA-compliant ECS Fargate infrastructure hosting 50+ healthcare microservices, ensuring 99.9%+ uptime, regulatory compliance, and scalable cloud operations.
• Designed VPC networking with private/public subnets, NAT gateways, and security groups supporting 3 isolated environments (dev, stage, prod), achieving zero-downtime deployments.
• Built automated CI/CD pipelines on GitHub Actions enabling seamless image builds, vulnerability scanning, and environment-specific deployments, cutting average release cycle time significantly.
• Optimized Docker-based microservices using multi-stage builds, resource tuning, and image hardening, improving container startup time and reducing image sizes.
• Enforced IAM least-privilege access, encrypted communication, runtime monitoring, and secrets management aligned with HIPAA and SOC2 security standards.
• Applied GitOps practices for infrastructure and application configuration management, ensuring consistent, auditable, and automated rollouts across all environments.

DevOps Engineer at Cyber Evangelists (2024-06 – 2025-03)

• Designed, deployed, and managed Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters for production and pre-production environments, configuring node pools and resource quotas to optimize performance and cost.
• Implemented and maintained robust CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Jenkins, automating build, test, and deployment processes to improve software delivery efficiency.
• Managed Docker systems end-to-end, creating, optimizing, and maintaining Docker images for microservices APIs in containerized environments.
• Monitored system health and performance using Grafana and logging solutions, proactively resolving infrastructure and application issues.
• Implemented GitOps workflows via GitHub Actions to manage versioned configuration changes and automated deployments consistently.
• Concurrently supported freelance client projects on Upwork (part-time, outside working hours).

DevOps Engineer (Contract) at Navicosoft PVT LTD (2023-08 – 2024-06)

• Deployed, configured, and maintained Docker containers to streamline application development and deployment processes across multiple client projects.
• Performed Linux system administration tasks including installation, configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting on Ubuntu, CentOS, and RHEL servers.
• Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, orchestrating automated builds, tests, and deployments to enhance software delivery reliability.
• Managed VPS and RDP server environments, handling setup, configuration, and troubleshooting for client infrastructure.

Bachelor of Computer Science (BSCS) in Computer Science (2024 – 2026)

Associate Degree in Computer Science (ADP) in Computer Science (2020 – 2022)