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Abad N.

Senior Full-Stack AI Platform Engineer | AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, CI/CD

𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗸𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗳𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀, 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵 𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲𝘀? I help startups, SaaS teams, and engineering companies build, migrate, automate, and stabilize production platforms across AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, and self-hosted environments. ➤ 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 & 𝗠𝗶𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 Design and troubleshoot AWS, GCP, VPS, and on-prem infrastructure, including networking, databases, DNS, SSL, backups, security, and low-downtime migrations. Migrated an IoT SaaS platform from AWS to self-hosted infrastructure with zero customer-facing downtime and around 60% lower infrastructure cost. ➤ 𝗞𝘂𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗲𝘀, 𝗗𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗿 & 𝗚𝗶𝘁𝗢𝗽𝘀 Deploy containerized platforms using Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, GKE, k3s, Helm, and ArgoCD. Built GitOps environments for 10+ microservices with automated sync, scaling, and monitoring. Built a complete GKE platform in Terraform with a private VPC, Cloud SQL on a private IP, Memorystore Redis, Secret Manager, and least-privilege service accounts, all deployed by one scripted Helm release. ➤ 𝗔𝗜 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 & 𝗟𝗟𝗠 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘀 I run models in production, not in notebooks. ServeScale is a Kubernetes-native AI inference platform that lets teams deploy, scale, monitor, and benchmark LLMs on GPU infrastructure with vLLM, without managing inference servers or GPU scheduling themselves. I also build RAG systems on pgvector and multi-model gateways over AWS Bedrock with per-tenant cost caps. ➤ 𝗣𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 & 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗻𝗱 Python 3.10+, FastAPI, Django, and Flask. REST APIs, ETL and data scripts, scheduled jobs, cron automation, and bash tooling. PostgreSQL and MySQL schema design, upserts, and query tuning. I build the automation that runs unattended for months, and I have found and fixed backup crons that had been silently failing for exactly that long. ➤ 𝗖𝗜/𝗖𝗗 & 𝗗𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 Build and repair pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Bitbucket Pipelines, Jenkins, and self-hosted runners for testing, image builds, releases, validation, and rollback. ➤ 𝗢𝗯𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 & 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 Implement monitoring, logging, dashboards, and alerts using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, CloudWatch, and GCP Cloud Monitoring. I investigate incidents, identify root causes, and improve reliability. ➤ 𝗖𝗼𝘀𝘁 & 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗢𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 Analyze resource usage, right-size workloads, remove waste, and improve architecture. Reduced AWS costs by around 30% for a platform serving 1M+ users. On the Smartzees assistant platform I cut catalog search from 6,456ms to 8.2ms by replacing per-request database scans with an in-memory vector index, and traced a dead dependency that was silently adding 45 seconds to every page load. ➤ 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 & 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 Least-privilege IAM and RBAC, secrets in Vault or Secret Manager, non-root images, TLS and certificate automation, and infrastructure-as-code scanning with tfsec, Checkov, and gitleaks. Took a production platform from 33 open Checkov findings to zero for SOC 2 and pen-test readiness. ➤ 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 & 𝗙𝘂𝗹𝗹-𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸 Support BigQuery, ETL/ELT pipelines, scheduled jobs, ingestion, and reporting issues. Reverse-engineered and migrated an Explo-based dashboard to a native presentation layer for a multi-brand franchise group, preserving the platform architecture while improving control and reducing third-party costs, then repaired the KPI accuracy, filtering, location mappings, and BigQuery reconciliation underneath it. 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗠𝗲: • Production-focused delivery, not temporary fixes • End-to-end understanding of cloud, applications, data, databases, and security • Clear root-cause analysis and written documentation • Infrastructure as code you own outright, with no lock-in to me • Work tied to uptime, cost, performance, and delivery speed 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸: • Supported production systems serving 1M+ users with 99.9% uptime • Reduced AWS infrastructure costs by approximately 30% • Migrated an IoT SaaS platform from AWS to self-hosted infrastructure with zero customer-facing downtime • Built ServeScale, a Kubernetes-native platform for serving and benchmarking LLMs on GPU • Built Kubernetes GitOps deployments for 10+ microservices • Took a production platform from 33 Checkov findings to zero for SOC 2 readiness • Built data-quality, reconciliation, and monitoring workflows that ended recurring client-facing reporting errors • Implemented Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and CloudWatch observability • Built multi-service CI/CD pipelines and recovered production applications and servers Available more than 30 hours a week and I reply within a few hours. Send me the problem and I will tell you honestly whether I am the right person for it.

🇵🇰Islamabad, Pakistan$25/hr100% JSS5.00 (1)Since Apr 2023

Earnings and projects

MRR
$192

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#114,868 / 412k
🇵🇰Country#15,636 / 52.9k
Revenue, last 30 days
$70

Last 6 months: $1.2k

Total earnings
$1.2k

Billed in all: $1.2k

World#378,783 / 412k
🇵🇰Country#47,517 / 52.9k
Per project
$400

$576 in the last 6 months

World#203,916 / 412k
🇵🇰Country#22,649 / 52.9k
Projects, last 6 months
2
100% fixed0% hourly
World#88,918 / 412k
🇵🇰Country#17,051 / 52.9k
Projects in all
3
100% fixed0% hourly
World#304,140 / 412k
🇵🇰Country#46,019 / 52.9k

Earnings, last 30 days

$1.2k+$70 earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$1,100$1,150$1,200$1,250Oct 8Oct 23Nov 7

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