Ahmed Faraz Email & Phone Number

Chaklala Scheme Iii

I'm responsible for designing implementing and testing cutting edge technology solutions, I also serve as a subject matter expert for SDS solutions along with Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity solutions for On Premis, Private, Public & Hybrid Cloud environments based off of industry leading technology components.I'm working with the following technologies:CLOUD:Amazon AWSAzureGoogle CloudVIRTUALIZATION:vSphere VmwareHyper-VWAN OPTIMIZATION:OpenNOPSoloWANToffee [Butterscotch|DataCenter] WAN OptimizerEncrypted Tunneling [OpenVPN|SoftEther VPN]DISASTER RECOVERY & BUSINESS CONTINUITY:Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5Acronis Backup Advance 11.7Zerto 5.0 Cross Platform VM Replication with RPO under 10 secondsCLOUDBERRY Managed Backup As A Service, with custom management portal. SDS: [Exponentially Scalable Hybrid Storage Solutions]GLUSTERFS:ManagementFlash Cache for better throughput for ISCSI VolumesNAS Volume Tieiring with Custom settings for configurable attributesNAS Tiering with ShardingNAS Scale Out Erasure CodingSTONEFLY SDS:ISCSINASOSR based off of Azure Blob Amazon S3 and GlacierHA Clustered [Load Balancing & Active Failover]NAS Scale Out with [Erasure Coding]Snapshots and RecoveryOn Campus Mirroring Sync|AsyncOff Campus Mirroring Sync|AsyncISCSI LUN Storage SolutionsCEPH based solutionsSOFTETHER-VPN: Site to Site [VPN Bridge and VPN Server components]Individual Site to Site managed by one VPN Server [Multiple segregated Site to Site Gateways]Point to Site [VPN Server and VPN Clients]Site to Site & Point to Site[VPN Bridge,VPN Server, VPN Clients]Hybrid Connectivity b/w Public Clouds and Private CloudsDedicated ChannelingLoad BalancingAuto FailoverLarge Scale Remote Access VPN Service [Static Virtual Hubs]Large Scale Virtual Hub Hosting Service [Dynamic Virtual Hubs]FILE SYNCING SOLUTIONS: Next Cloud [with collabora office, and Spreed ME WebRTC]Seafile [With the new seafile drive client]

Islamabad Pakistan

Initially when I joined Protégé Global their entire infrastructure was based off of proprietary solutions and closed source legacy software/equipment.My primary responsibility was to revamp the infrastructure with the best Open Source alternatives to ensure better operational throughput and to minimize the CAPEX and ongoing maintenance cost, I led a team of System Engineers and Developers to deploy and customize the solutions to mostly replace the existing infrastructure and in some instances integrated it with the legacy processes.Now I'm responsible for managing IT Infrastructure and catering to DevOPs needs.Some of the interesting technologies I worked with during this time are as follows:• Cloud Computing [Eucalyptus | Cloudstack | Openstack | RHEV] • Virtualization [KVM | Xen].• Deployment/Provisioning via Shell/Bash Scripting.• Infrastructure Automation via [Puppet | Chef].• Centralized Integrated Universal Dashboard via [ELK Stack | Kibana].• Network/Services Monitoring/Management [Logstash | Zabbix | Nagios].• Cloud File Storage/Syncing Solutions [Owncloud | Seafile].• Consolidated Network Management [Zentyal | ZeroShell] [Firewall | DHCP | Proxy | Bandwidth Shaping | DC | BDC].• Container Based Infrastructure [Dockers/CoreOS].• Continuous Integration using Jenkins.• GeoDNS based Load Balancer [GeoDNS | Pound Server | IIS Cluster]• Galera Master Master Replication Cluster On Mariadb 5.5 [True Write Agnostic Deployment].• Customization of Postfix for Mail Queue Management.• HA Fully Redundant Zimbra Mail Server Deployment.• Multitenant Business IVR System [FreePBX | Asterisk]• Central ISCSI Target/SAMBA Share based Storage [Freenas | Openfiler].• Distributed HA Replicated File System [GlusterFS | XtreemFS].• Openmeeting Open Source Collaboration System.• Jitsi end to end Encrypted Communication & Conferencing System.• MyFreePacs | dcm4chee | Canvas PACS Systems.• Hylafax Server/ICT FoIP Server.• Hadoop deployments.

Islamabad

As Sr. Cloud Operations Engineer I was responsible for provisioning and managing all cloud infrastructure.>Technologies Used-----VDI: [Windows Virtual Desktops | Linux Virtual Desktops] -Ovirt/RHEV Based [IPA + KVM + SPICE] -Xen Based [XenServer + XenCenter + XenDesktop + HDX] Web Based Desktops: -Ulteo [Ulteo Server + Application Servers] -EyeOS ARM Based Thin VDI Clients: -Rasberry Pi B [Raspbian Thin VDI] -ODROID U3 [Fedora XFCE Arm + VirtViewer] Container Technology: -Docker [Linux Containers] (Min Resource Consumption, Max Performance) -CoreOS [Large Scale Fully Redundant Deployments] >Projects:----Encrypted Mail Service: -Webbased -Crossplatform/Fully Responsive -Two Step Encryption AES(256) + SHA1 -Full end to end security Custom Spin of OrangeHRM: -Custom Features: Dashboard Reports Gallery Custom Recruitment Fully Redundant Cloud Storage: -HA Openfiler Backend (ISCSI Target | NFS via (XFS) | SAMBA Share) -Owncloud Frontend (File Syncing|Sharing|Encrypted Transmission)

Islamabad Pakistan

• Implementing & Testing New Releases in a Live Environment before Commercial Deployment. • Maintaining over 50 Servers in various Data Centers and Co-Locations.• Inter-Op Testing of AAA Products and Billing Solutions with 3rd Party Applications.• Database Administration for over 100 Hundred Commercial Telco VoIP Solutions.• Automating Backup Procedures.• Data Synchronization via advanced technologies such as DRBD and R-sync.• HA Solutions using Linux Heart Beat to implement Fail Over and Load Balancing.• Use of CIFS for coupling Windows Servers with Linux Servers to form a cohesive unit.• Use of gparted to clone entire Hard disks for seamless restoration and shifting replicated instances.• Setting Up MySQL Replication in Slave Slave and Master Master configuration.• Maintaining IP Tables Tcp Wrappers and Se-Linux to ensure server security.• CSF configuration to prevent DOS and DDOS attacks.• Managing Server Processes and Service Stability via NMS esp Nagios.• Restricting Server Access and Hardening Server Security and Hacker Threats.• Managing DNS, httpd, and FTP Servers.• Implementation and Configuration of several Open Source and Paid 3rd Party Applications and Utilities such as the following:> Backup & Restore Systems:o rdiff-backupo rsnapshoto R1Soft Hot Copyo Clonezilla [ISO Imaging & Cloning]> Ticketing & Bug Tracking Systems:o OTRSo Rt4o OsTicketo Redmineo ChiliProject> NMS:o OpenNMSo Zabbixo Monito M/Monito Nagios> Mail Servers:o Zimbra> VPN Tunneling Encryption:o TOR> Database Tools: o PhPMyadmin> VoIP Billing Systems:o Freesideo a2billingo Advanced VoIP Billing System

• Linux WebHosting: o Web Server Stabilization & Service Management: Apache Tomcat MySQL Exim Mail Pure | Pro | Vsftpd Mitigation of DOS DDOS and Syn Flood Attacks Abuse Control [Blocking,Denying,Suspending Hosting Accounts]o Control Panel Management: cPanel WHM Webmail Installation and Troubleshooting of Multiple Third Party Utilities: Clipbucket SE4 WordPress PHPnukeo Domain & Website Managemento VPS Managemento RBL Managemento R1Soft Backup & Recoveryo Handing Key Files such as: htaccess htpasswd php.ini• Windows Web Hosting:o Web Server Stabilization & Service Management: IIS Tomcat MySQL SQL Server Hmail ISC Bind Mitigation of DOS DDOS and Syn Flood Attacks Abuse Control [Blocking,Denying,Suspending Hosting Accounts]o Control Panel Management: Windows Panel | DotnetPanel Aliases Redirects Custom Error Pages Webmail Installation and Troubleshooting of Multiple Third Party Utilities: WordPress PHPnukeo Domain & Website Managemento VPS Managemento RBL Managemento Backup & Recoveryo Handing Key Files such as: web.config php.ini

Islamabad

• Performed my jobs as a Senior Support and Operations Engineer & the responsibilities included Linux VoIP Server’s setup, installation, maintenance, and monitoring with multiple securities & monitoring tools. • Worked on Daemon services, Server monitoring tools like top, iftop, LSM etc and applied Extra monitoring like Sip Sak, DB backup, Disk usage Monitoring & Server Routine Tasks for approx. 60+ different servers.• Worked on VoIP Billing System & Solutions including Users/Customers, Plans/Rate Sheets, DID, Agents & Franchise Management, Termination, Calls Monitoring, Service Configuration, Access No. Mapping, One-stage Dialing, Prepaid Calling Cards, Least Cost Routing Engine, Accounting & CDRs, System Security, & QA of SIP based Soft-Switch & Call-shop Software & verifying the results in White Box & Black Box testing.• VoIP Billing Basic & Provisional Acceptance Test Cases including Pc2Ph Outgoing, Wholesale, Ph2Ph, ANI & PIN Based, SIP Trunking, Residential VoIP & Call Back using SIP Softphones & ATA devices.• Provided Online Support to the Customers (via Live Chat, phone calls, Skype, Online demos through Cisco VoIP WebEx), ISP Billing System & Solutions.• Troubleshooting of errors using Wire shark, Ngrep, Tethereal Logs & Soft-Switch Live trace files.• Major Installations including VoIP Billing Solution, SDP, Media-Server, Soft-Switch & Radius. Open Source softwares like Open SER, Asterisk, JDK, Apache Tomcat, MySQL Server, Sip Sak & TrixBox.

Islamabad

• Maintaining and Monitoring Servers.• Optimizing installed applications.• Implementing Backup and Restore Procedures

Linux Basic Essentials

Linux Advanced Server Configuration

Rhce Hands On Training

Ibm Lpi

Ocp Dba 9I

Ocp Dba 10G

Mcs, Computer Science

Bachelors, Computer Science

Ics, Computer Science