Syed Ahsan Mehmood S.

DevOps and cloud engineer, 6 years running production on AWS and Azure. I set up infrastructure that deploys cleanly and doesn't surprise you on the bill. Jobs I take on most: - Deploy your app to AWS (ECS, EKS, EC2, Lambda) or Azure (AKS, App Service, Functions) - CI/CD with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps, with tests and rollback built in - Terraform for dev, staging, and prod, with remote state and locking - Docker and Kubernetes: cluster setup, Helm charts, ArgoCD, and fixing clusters that keep breaking - Cloud migration: on-prem, VPS, Replit, or Heroku to AWS, Azure, Vercel, or Firebase - AWS and Azure cost cuts: right-sizing, spot and reserved capacity, removing idle resources - Monitoring and alerting with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, CloudWatch, or Azure Monitor - Security hardening: IAM least privilege, Vault, private endpoints, OPA and Kyverno policies Recent work: - Moved a live PWA with 200k+ hits off Replit onto Vercel and Firebase and fixed its Google Play subscription flow. Done in days, 5 stars on Upwork. - Led an on-prem to AWS migration: multi-AZ EKS, segmented VPCs, modular Terraform per environment, phased cutover with no downtime. Infrastructure drift down about 90%. - Built an Azure data platform on Snowflake: hub-and-spoke landing zone, private endpoints on every PaaS service, Snowpipe ingestion, warehouses sized per workload with credit caps. - Shipped dev, test, and prod Azure environments in one month with Terraform, OPA policy gates, and Azure DevOps pipelines. Stack: AWS (EKS, ECS, EC2, Lambda, VPC, IAM, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, GuardDuty), Azure (AKS, Data Factory, Functions, Key Vault, Entra ID, Private Link, Defender for Cloud), Terraform, Helm, Kustomize, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Flux, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Loki, OpenTelemetry, Vault, OPA, Kyverno, Trivy, Snowflake, Python, Bash. How I work: you talk to me directly. I write Terraform you can read six months from now, document what I build, and tell you when something is good enough to ship versus when it needs more time. Fixed price for scoped tasks, hourly for ongoing work. Send me what's broken or what you need stood up and I'll tell you how I'd approach it and what it would cost.