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Muhammad Waqar A.
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Muhammad Waqar A.

Senior DevOps & MLOps Engineer | AWS & GCP | Kubernetes

I am a Senior DevOps Engineer with 8+ years of experience specialized in designing and operating highly available, cloud native platforms. My core expertise lies at the intersection of Production DevOps and AI/ML Infrastructure, where I bridge the gap between complex model deployments and reliable, cost efficient cloud operations. Currently, as a Senior DevOps/AI Infrastructure Engineer, I lead the containerization and deployment of custom LLMs using Ollama and vLLM. I don't just manage servers; I build systems that scale. Recently designing a Kubernetes based architecture that handled 50x traffic growth for over 1 million users. Some of my daily basis tasks are: - AI/LLM Readiness: Hands on experience with LLM observability (Langfuse), air-gapped AI deployments, and GPU optimized workloads - Proven Efficiency: I have a track record of reducing deployment times by 80% through GitOps and improving incident detection by 90% via centralized observability stacks. - Infrastructure as Code (IaC): 100% committed to immutable infrastructure using Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible to ensure zer -drift environments. - Setup monitoring systems using ELK/Grafana/Datadog Core Technical Stack: - Cloud: AWS (EKS, ECS, Lambda, SageMaker), GCP, Alibaba Cloud - Orchestration: Kubernetes (K8s), Helm, Docker Swarm, ECS Fargate, AWS copilot - AI Ops: vLLM, Ollama, Langfuse, GPU Infrastructure. - CI/CD & GitOps: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI. - Observability: Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK Stack, Sentry Certification Coursera: AWS Fundamentals: Going Cloud-Native Pluralsight: Microservices DevOps Udemy: Robotic Process Automation Udemy: Selenium WebDriver with C# Projects Terraform IaC ( Deploy complete infrastructure on AWS using terraform and terragrunt modules) Dockerization of application and deployment with Kubernetes with helm charts using jenkins CICD .NET-Core-Application-dockerization Ansible-Docker-Node-Application Dockerize MEVN application

🇵🇰Karachi, Pakistan$35/hr100% JSS4.92 (19)Since Jan 2019

Earnings and projects

MRR
$166

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#119,647 / 412k
🇵🇰Country#16,506 / 52.9k
Revenue, last 30 days
$0

Last 6 months: $997

Total earnings
$73k

Billed in all: $76k

World#54,319 / 412k
🇵🇰Country#4,404 / 52.9k
Per project
$2.5k

$997 in the last 6 months

World#64,370 / 412k
🇵🇰Country#4,635 / 52.9k
Projects, last 6 months
1
0% fixed100% hourly
World#128,096 / 412k
🇵🇰Country#22,565 / 52.9k
Projects in all
29

Across 36 contracts

42% fixed58% hourly
World#100,217 / 412k
🇵🇰Country#16,428 / 52.9k

Earnings, last 30 days

$75.8k+$2 earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$75,833$75,834$75,835$75,836Oct 9Oct 24Nov 8

Dotted: longer than usual between two readings. Hatched: over two weeks without one.

Skill rankings: Top 20% in Elasticsearch

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