Atif A.

Most companies are overpaying for cloud by 30 to 40% and shipping releases slower than they should. I fix both. I'm Atif A, a certified AWS DevOps Engineer (Professional) and Solutions Architect with 10+ years building, optimizing, and automating cloud infrastructure for startups and enterprises across the UAE and internationally. What that looks like in practice: 💰 Cut AWS spend 40% for an enterprise client, saving $200K+ per year, through infrastructure audit, rightsizing, and automation. ⚡ Deployed production Kubernetes clusters (EKS and GKE) handling 1M+ requests/day at 99.9% uptime, with GitOps via ArgoCD. 🚀 Reduced deployment time from 2 hours to 15 minutes using GitHub Actions and GitLab CI/CD, with zero downtime releases. 🔒 Automated security and compliance auditing across 50+ AWS accounts (IAM, S3, RDS, EC2), implementing SOC2 Type 2 and ISO27001 controls. 🏗️ Built reusable Terraform modules for multi-cloud (AWS and GCP), cutting provisioning time from 2 days to 2 hours. 📊 Stood up full observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) that cut incident response time by 60%. How I can help you: - AWS, GCP, and Azure infrastructure design and cost optimization - Kubernetes migration, setup, and management - CI/CD pipeline automation and GitOps - Infrastructure as Code with Terraform - Security hardening, compliance, and 24/7 monitoring - Python automation to remove manual, repetitive ops work I also build AI-powered workflow automations, connecting tools and APIs (OpenAI, Claude, n8n) to take manual effort out of business operations. If you want infrastructure and automation handled by one engineer who actually ships to production and stays reliable after launch, that's me. 🛠️ Core stack: Cloud: AWS (EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch), GCP (GKE, Cloud SQL, Cloud Build), Azure (AKS, Azure DevOps) Containers & GitOps: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, FluxCD CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins IaC: Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, PagerDuty Security: HashiCorp Vault, Trivy, Falco, AWS WAF Scripting: Python, Bash, PowerShell What a client said: "Atif did an amazing job and went above and beyond what was required. It was a pleasure working with him, and we'll be looking forward to our next engagement." Let's talk. Message me with what you're trying to fix and I'll tell you straight whether I'm the right fit. Free 15-minute scoping call if it makes sense.