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Naveed A.

Naveed A.

Senior DevOps & Platform Engineer | AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform

Need a production-grade AWS or Kubernetes environment that deploys faster, scales reliably, and is easier to operate? I'm a Senior DevOps & Platform Engineer with 10+ years of hands-on production experience building, migrating, automating, troubleshooting, and operating cloud infrastructure. I currently work as a Lead DevOps Engineer / Senior Engineer II at DigitalOcean, and my background includes Cloudways, Gaditek, NexDegree, and PredictifyMe. My core focus: • AWS & Google Cloud architecture • Kubernetes / GKE / container platforms • Terraform & Infrastructure as Code • Ansible infrastructure automation • Docker & containerization • GitHub Actions, GitLab CI & Jenkins • CI/CD design and deployment automation • Linux systems engineering • High availability & disaster recovery • Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch & observability • Cloud migrations & zero-downtime deployments • Performance, reliability & infrastructure troubleshooting Selected production results • Implemented CI/CD pipelines that reduced deployment time by 70% • Designed disaster-recovery processes achieving RTO below 1 hour for critical systems • Led zero-downtime migrations from Rackspace/dedicated infrastructure to AWS • Migrated production databases using AWS Database Migration Service • Built reusable Ansible automation for infrastructure across hundreds of nodes • Designed highly available multi-AZ AWS architectures using Auto Scaling, load balancing and RDS • Built and operated Kubernetes-based production infrastructure and deployment workflows I also work at the intersection of DevOps + AI automation, building AI-agent workflows using OpenAI, MCP, LangChain, Python, Kubernetes and infrastructure tooling for incident analysis, deployments, observability and operational automation. I can help you with: AWS architecture • Kubernetes deployments • Terraform • CI/CD • cloud migrations • Linux troubleshooting • infrastructure automation • reliability engineering • observability • disaster recovery • DevOps architecture reviews • AI-powered operations. If you have an infrastructure problem, migration, unreliable deployment process, Kubernetes issue, or automation project, send me the requirements. I can help with the architecture, implementation, troubleshooting, documentation and production rollout.

🇵🇰Karachi, Pakistan$25/hr100% JSS4.93 (8)Since Sep 2014
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Last 6 months ÷ 6

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Total earnings
$9.2k
World#203,201 / 412k
🇵🇰Country#21,994 / 52.9k
Per project
$922
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Projects in all
10

Across 11 contracts

91% fixed9% hourly
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🇵🇰Country#33,132 / 52.9k

Earnings, last 30 days

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