Irfan Gavin
@irfangavin
Senior DevOps and Cloud Solutions Engineer specializing in multi-cloud reliability and automation.
What I'm looking for
I am a Senior DevOps, Cloud, and Infrastructure Engineering professional with 13+ years delivering secure, scalable systems across AWS, Azure, and GCP. I design and deploy enterprise-grade cloud architectures, implement SRE best practices, and build automation frameworks that improve resilience, performance, and cost-efficiency.
My background includes leading multi-cloud migrations, creating reusable Terraform and Ansible modules, building CI/CD and GitOps pipelines, and establishing observability platforms with Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk. I mentor teams, integrate DevSecOps into delivery workflows, and focus on measurable reliability improvements and operational excellence.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Senior DevOps Engineer
Mindstorm Studios
May 2024 - Present (1 year 7 months)
Led multi-cloud automation across AWS and Azure, designing reusable Terraform and Ansible modules and enhancing CI/CD pipelines to increase release velocity and resilience.
Enterprise DevOps Architect
Vision Net Systems
Sep 2020 - Apr 2024 (3 years 7 months)
Designed multi-cloud architecture integrating AWS and Azure with Terraform Cloud and GitOps (ArgoCD), implemented multi-region DR and SRE practices to improve reliability and cost efficiency.
Senior DevOps Engineer
StackOverdrive.io, LLC
Jan 2019 - Aug 2020 (1 year 7 months)
Architected secure, scalable cloud infrastructures across AWS and Azure, built CI/CD pipelines for containerized Java and Python workloads and integrated Vault-based secrets management and observability.
Cloud Solutions Engineer
Linux Administrator
Mar 2012 - Dec 2018 (6 years 9 months)
Administered and optimized RHEL and CentOS production systems, led on-premise-to-AWS migrations and VMware virtualization, and automated infrastructure operations with scripting to improve availability.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
University of Michigan
Bachelor in Computer Sciences, Computer Science
Bachelor in Computer Sciences from the University of Michigan. Focused on core computer science principles and systems engineering.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Splunk
GitHub
GitLab
Bitbucket
Kubernetes
Jenkins
GitLab CI
Bitbucket Pipelines
MySQL
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Cassandra
Gmail
.NET
Redis
Terraform
Azure DevOps
JFrog Artifactory
Java
JSON
PowerShell
Loki
Grafana
Prometheus
Nagios
Ubuntu
CentOS
Linux
Windows
ZAP
New Relic
jFrog
Elasticsearch
Ansible
AWS Lambda
Serverless
sso
Zap
Root Cause
Octopus Deploy
Trivy
ArgoCD
Dynatrace
OWASP ZAP
Bash
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
Job categories
Skills
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