Shahzain Iftikhar

Results-driven DevOps and Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with hands-on experience designing CI/CD pipelines, orchestrating containerized workloads on Kubernetes, and provisioning cloud infrastructure with Terraform on AWS. CNCF KubeStronaut-trained across Kubernetes, container orchestration, and cloud-native architecture. Progressed through four internship and freelance roles at Al Nafi Cloud and via independent contracting, spanning Linux administration, DevOps automation, and site-reliability practices.

Skilled in building zero-downtime deployment pipelines, production-grade observability stacks, and secure, version-controlled infrastructure. Focused on reliability, automation, and reducing operational toil across the full delivery lifecycle.

Linux System Administrator (Internship) at Al Nafi Cloud (2024-08 – 2024-12)

• Designed and deployed a multi-stage Jenkins + Docker CI/CD pipeline with automatic rollback on health-check failure, eliminating manual deployments.
• Administered Ubuntu and CentOS servers — user/permission management, cron scheduling, and system hardening aligned to CIS Benchmarks.
• Configured and maintained DNS, DHCP, and NFS network services supporting 20+ internal users, sustaining 99%+ uptime.
• Authored Bash automation scripts for log rotation and disk-health alerting, cutting recurring admin toil by ~30%.

Junior DevOps Engineer (Part-time) at Al Nafi Cloud (2025-01 – 2025-04)

• Built and maintained CI/CD workflows in GitHub Actions for containerized projects, covering build, test, and deploy stages.
• Used Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform to provision and orchestrate application deployments across environments.
• Implemented infrastructure monitoring and automated backup routines to reduce unplanned downtime.
• Wrote automation scripts to streamline cloud infrastructure provisioning and day-to-day management.

AIOps Engineer at Al Nafi Cloud (2025-05 – 2025-08)

• Built model-deployment pipelines and integrated custom APIs to surface real-time infrastructure insights.
• Developed AI-assisted predictive monitoring and alert-enrichment workflows to flag anomalies before impact.
• Automated log analysis and correlation using ML techniques, improving incident-response time.
• Built dashboards and reporting layers to visualize infrastructure health for stakeholders.

DevOps & AI/ML Engineer (Freelance) at Fiverr (2025-09 – Present)

• Design and deploy DevOps and AI/ML solutions on AWS for freelance clients, end-to-end.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning with Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Build and ship CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions.
• Develop and deploy AI/ML applications using Python and TensorFlow.

Bachelor in Artificial Intelligence Operations – Al Nafi International College (2025)

Intermediate in Pre-Engineering – Islamia College Peshawar