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Ashraf Ali

@ashrafali1

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Innovative Senior DevOps Engineer with expertise in multi-cloud infrastructure.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I am looking for a role that fosters innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning in cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices.

I am an innovative and results-driven Senior DevOps and Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with over 10 years of experience in designing, automating, and scaling secure, high-availability platforms across AWS, Azure, and GCP. My proven expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps, and enterprise CI/CD implementations has accelerated delivery and improved reliability. I am recognized for transforming SDLCs with infrastructure-as-code, DevSecOps automation, and observability at scale.

Throughout my career, I have been adept at bridging development and operations to drive agility, security, and operational excellence in modern cloud-native environments. My experience includes leading DevOps initiatives, implementing CI/CD pipelines, and promoting SRE best practices. I am passionate about enhancing operational readiness and ensuring system reliability aligns with business goals.

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Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Lead DevOps/Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

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SoftStack Factory

Feb 2023 - Present (2 years 5 months)

Built production-grade pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions, implementing blue/green and canary deployment strategies to enable safe and efficient rollouts. Developed automated recovery processes for EC2 and Kubernetes using Python and Bash, improving infrastructure resilience and reducing manual intervention.

Jenkins GitHub Actions Blue Green Deployment EC2 Kubernetes Python BASH VPC ELK Stack Cloudwatch SRE

Senior DevOps/Site Reliability Engineer

Render

Feb 2017 - Jan 2023 (5 years 11 months)

Designed and deployed GitOps-based CI/CD pipelines using GitLab and ArgoCD, enhancing delivery speed, consistency, and traceability of releases. Managed EKS and GKE clusters with Istio, RBAC, and autoscaling to ensure scalable, secure microservices architecture.

GitOps CI CD Gitlab ArgoCD Kubernetes EKS GKE Istio RBAC AutoScaling Terraform Pulumi Datadog)Prometheus Loki DevSecOps Snyk Vault SLOs

DevOps/Platform Engineer

Exact IT Consulting

Apr 2014 - Nov 2016 (2 years 7 months)

Designed and maintained Azure DevOps and CircleCI pipelines to support Spark-based ETL workflows across distributed systems. Scaled and optimized Delta Lake infrastructure, improving performance and reducing costs in large-scale data environments.