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Huzaifa Afzal

@huzaifaafzal

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I build reliable, cost-efficient AWS platforms and distributed production systems.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to build scalable, reliable cloud and platform systems, automate infrastructure workflows, and improve production efficiency through infrastructure as code, observability, and distributed systems engineering.

I've built and operated distributed AWS production systems for Harri, improving infrastructure consistency, reliability, and cost efficiency for enterprise SaaS workloads.

I designed reusable Terraform modules for API Gateway, CloudFront, Route53, OpenSearch, Redshift, and supporting AWS services, reducing manual provisioning effort by approximately 40%. I also reduced AWS spend by approximately 30% through rightsizing, Compute Optimizer and Trusted Advisor analysis, and reservation planning.

At Systems Limited, assigned to Visionet Systems Inc., I built Terraform and Jenkins/CloudBees workflows for self-service AWS EMR/Spark deployments and supported Spark migrations from EC2/HDP to EMR. I also migrated an application from EC2 to Docker-based ECS/Fargate and automated operational workflows with Python, Bash, PowerShell, Lambda, and AWS Systems Manager.

My graduate research at the University of Washington includes deploying GovernAI, a self-hosted LLM platform with Ollama and Open WebUI, secure model-serving controls, and repeatable evaluation workflows. I benchmarked local inference across hardware configurations in first-author work published at IEEE SVCC 2026.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

DevOps Engineer (Contract)

Harri

Mar 2022 - May 2025 (3 years 2 months)

Designed reusable Terraform modules for AWS services, reducing manual provisioning effort by approximately 40%. Operated distributed production services across EKS/ECS, OpenSearch, Redis, RDS/Aurora, S3, and VPC networking, improving reliability for enterprise SaaS workloads.

Terraform AWS Amazon EKS AWS ECS OpenSearch Redis RDS Aurora S3 VPC Datadog Cloudwatch Multi Region Disaster Recovery Resource Rightsizing

Cloud Infrastructure / Software Engineer

Systems Limited

Jul 2019 - Mar 2022 (2 years 8 months)

Built Terraform and Jenkins/CloudBees workflows for AWS EMR/Spark environments, enabling repeatable self-service distributed-compute deployments. Migrated Spark workloads from EC2/HDP to AWS EMR and an application from EC2 to Docker-based ECS/Fargate, improving scalability and operational simplicity.