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Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

My responsibilities include:Design Cloud Architectures from scratch for the upcoming projects to facilitate Dev,QA and Production environments.Mentoring our DevOps engineers to incorporate best practices in the SDLC process. Setting up customized goals and feedback mechanisms for professional growth of DevOps engineers.Designing and conducting training on.

Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

Created CI/CD for observability project to implement grafana dashboards as a code using Gitlab-CI and Azure Cloud.Designed standard architecture for Development, QA and Production stages that can be replicated across multiple projects. Leveraged Gitlab-CI, SonarQube, Kubernetes, Helm, Nexus and Terraform to automate the main processes.Developed and managed.

Islāmābād, Pakistan

Co-established a startup aimed to provide health-based IT services and products. The portfolio covered online consultation with physicians, pharmacy coordination, patients’ management, medicine delivery and electronic medical records keeping solutions et.al.Managed project timelines, customer requirements, SOWs.Developed plugins for E-commerce platforms.

Islamabad, Pakistan

Managed the whole lifecycle of projects for a major Telecom company in UAE. My responsibilities include:Drafted project plans, roadmaps and milestones for future work and approval from customers. Ensured periodic updates to the higher management, customers, partner companies and other stakeholders. Devised SOPs and regulations for the team in Pakistan and.

Islamabad, Islāmābād, Pakistan

Designed and developed Real Time Traffic Filtering/Brokering solutions distributed over several cities for a UAE based major Telecom company. Each solution was spread over several cities and sites. The solutions would do the real time traffic analysis at more than 100 Gbps of telco traffic on each site. These solutions used capabilities of OVS, OVS-DPDK.

Islamabad, Pakistan

• My responsibilities included defining project roadmaps, providing technical guidelines to my team. Below are the projects I lead during this tenure.
• Lead the design and development of testing of SDN use cases with OpenvSwitch and OpenFlow. The project required development and updating of Switch firmware using CPSS frameworks in C language.
• Lead the development activities for building of an open source C API for fast packet processing applications based on Intel’s DPDK called twister. (more details at this link https://github.com/twister2016/twister)

Islamabad

As MTS I was responsible for designing, development, deployments and integration activities. Some of the projects I conducted included:- Development and Design for OpenStack deployments for ETSI NFV architecture based on Libvirt API, Qemu/KVM, Xen API and Citrix XenServer- Development of Fast Packet Processing Applications to be run as VNFs on ETSI NFV.

Santa Clara, California, United States

As contract engineer to Dell Techonolgies, I was part of the team responsible to assist Dell Research Team in building a Fast Datapath cloud solution for NFV use cases. The solution would leverage the capabilities of SRIOV, NUMA, Hugepages, OVS and DPDK in OpenStack cloud. The solution was aimed to develop a robust cloud which can run VNFs, and Telco based.

As Teaching Assistant of "Data Structures and Algorithm", my responsibilities were to conduct Labs, quizzes and assginments for the class. I was also responcible to guide students in their semester projects.