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Asghar Ahmed
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Asghar Ahmed

Asghar Ahmed

DevOps Engineer

Systems operate in hostile environments. Reliability is not optional. With over 12 years of experience, I architect, automate, and operate high-availability production environments. From automated payload delivery to cluster orchestration, I build the engines that keep missions online.

Zero Downtime Operations
Automated Payload Delivery
Fault Tolerant Architecture

Enterprise Deployments

International Textile Multinet Aptech ABC Tech SSSSCO Al Rajhi Bank Pinnacle Enterprise CipherTV GETUS
Sequence 01. Orbital Infrastructure

Infrastructure as Code

I use Terraform and Ansible to declare immutable infrastructure. This eliminates configuration drift and allows entire environments to be mathematically proven and deployed in minutes.

  • Automated Compute Provisioning
  • Immutable Server Configuration
  • Version Controlled Environments
main.tf // Provisioning Protocol
resource "libvirt_domain" "prod_node" { name = "prod-app-01" memory = 8192 vcpu = 4 network_interface { network_name = "production_net" } }
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Sequence 02. Payload Delivery

Automated Pipelines

I build robust pipelines that test, secure, and deploy applications automatically. By integrating Docker registries and Kubernetes manifests, I ensure that code moves from repository to production smoothly and safely.

gitlab-runner // Telemetry
Waiting for payload trigger...
Sequence 03. System Telemetry

Observability & Alerting

You can't manage what you can't measure. I deploy Prometheus and Grafana stacks to provide deep visibility into cluster health and application latency. Automated alerting ensures anomalies are handled before catastrophic failure.

MISSION TELEMETRY NOMINAL

P99 LATENCY

84 ms

ERROR RATE

0.02%
> Monitoring systems nominal.
Sequence 04. Design Protocol

System Architecture Map

External Gateway (Cloudflare / Edge)
Traffic Director (Nginx/HAProxy)
RKE2 / K3s Container Orchestration
Frontend Nodes
Backend APIs
Worker Nodes
Database Cluster (MariaDB)
Persistent Storage (Longhorn)

Professional Flight Log (Experience)

Senior DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer

Specializing in highly available IPTV and ISP infrastructures.

  • Managed and scaled infrastructure supporting IPTV, Internet, and VPOP services, maintaining 99.99% uptime.
  • Operated complex Linux and virtualization (KVM) environments at enterprise scale.
  • Designed, deployed, and maintained highly available Kubernetes workloads using RKE2, K3s, and Rancher.
  • Implemented end-to-end GitLab CI/CD pipelines to automate application testing and delivery.
  • Built comprehensive observability stacks using Prometheus, Grafana, and Alertmanager for proactive incident response.
  • Managed distributed, persistent storage solutions for stateful workloads using Longhorn.

Career Evolution

Senior DevOps & Observability
Containerization & Kubernetes
Systems & Infrastructure Engineering
Linux & Virtualization Administration
Senior DevOps & Observability: Built complete end-to-end CI/CD pipelines with GitLab. Implemented Infrastructure as Code using Terraform/Ansible. Setup comprehensive monitoring and alerting using Prometheus and Grafana. Focus on SRE practices.