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Atif Ather

@atifather

I build secure, highly available multi-cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, and CI/CD systems at production scale.

Pakistan

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to build and operate secure, highly available cloud and Kubernetes platforms, improve automation and observability, and strengthen DevSecOps practices for production-scale products.

At Gnosis, I operate production infrastructure for Gnosis Chain, Gnosis Pay, GnosisVPN, Circles, Analytics, and prediction-market platforms handling approximately 4 billion monthly requests. I helped build Gnosis Pay and GnosisVPN from the ground up, maintaining 99.95% uptime for Gnosis Pay.

I bring 8+ years of hands-on experience automating and securing AWS, GCP, and multi-cloud environments with Terraform, Kubernetes, Ansible, GitHub Actions, and Argo CD. I've also built observability, incident-response, blockchain node, vulnerability-management, and infrastructure automation solutions across financial, VPN, and blockchain products.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior DevOps Engineer

Current

Gnosis

Apr 2022 - Present (4 years 5 months)

Owned production infrastructure across Gnosis Chain, Gnosis Pay, GnosisVPN, Circles, Analytics, and prediction-market platforms, supporting approximately 4 billion monthly requests and peaks of 130 million requests per day. Served as a founding cloud infrastructure engineer for Gnosis Pay and GnosisVPN, architecting highly available platforms from the ground up and maintaining 99.95% uptime for Gn

DevOps Engineer

Bookassist

Feb 2022 - Nov 2024 (2 years 9 months)

Managed AWS services including CloudWatch, CloudFormation, Route 53, ACM, Inspector, CodeCommit, EC2, S3, IAM, Lambda, and related infrastructure services. Migrated infrastructure automation from local Ansible scripts to Ansible Tower / AWX for centralized execution, visibility, and access control.

AWS Cloudwatch CloudFormation Route 53 ACM Inspector CodeCommit EC2 S3 IAM Lambda Kubernetes Ansible AWX Terraform

Senior Infrastructure Stability Engineer

PureVPN/PureSquare

Mar 2021 - Feb 2022 (11 months)

Implemented service token management using HashiCorp Vault. Configured and maintained VPN servers, site-to-site tunnels, and VPN protocols including IPsec, IKEv2, OpenVPN, WireGuard, and L2TP.

VPN IPSEC IKEv2 OpenVPN WireGuard L2TP IPtables Tcpdump Wireshark KVM Dig Iperf Monit Telegram

System Administrator Engineer

PureVPN/PureSquare

Mar 2017 - Mar 2021 (4 years)

Used VMware, VirtualBox, and Linux KVM for virtualization, and Wireshark and iPerf for network analysis and troubleshooting. Developed a solution to block P2P/torrenting using Suricata and implemented ad-blocking controls using SquidGuard.

VMWare VirtualBox KVM Wireshark Iperf Ansible Suricata SQUIDGUARD