Ifthekhar Mohammed
DevOps Engineer | Cloud Infrastructure & Automation
I'm a DevOps Engineer with 5 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native infrastructure for enterprise platforms. I work mainly with AWS and Kubernetes (EKS) to build and manage scalable, cloud-native systems using GitOps principles with ArgoCD & Helm.
I focus on driving end-to-end automation—developing CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and Jenkins, managing containerized workloads through Docker and ECR, and ensuring environments are consistent, auditable, and easy to deploy. My hands-on experience also includes implementing monitoring and observability solutions with Prometheus, Grafana, Fluent Bit, and CloudWatch to achieve high availability and reliability.
Beyond infrastructure, I collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to deliver secure and optimized solutions. I've worked on authentication and authorization implementations using OAuth, SAML, and OIDC, and helped enforce strong cloud governance with IAM, KMS, GuardDuty, and Inspector. Passionate about continuous improvement, I actively participate in agile ceremonies, promote knowledge sharing, and drive cost optimization through FinOps best practices.
Experience
DevOps Engineer
June 2024 – PresentBelle Tire, USA
- Managed AWS EKS clusters across Dev, QA, and Prod environments using Terraform, ArgoCD, and Helm for fully automated GitOps deployments.
- Built and optimized GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines for container builds, ECR publishing, environment-based deployments, and Cloudflare cache automation.
- Improved observability by deploying kube-prometheus-stack, Fluent Bit to CloudWatch logging, and Grafana dashboards for pod health, ALB traffic, and system metrics.
- Strengthened platform security by deploying CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor on EKS, enabling GuardDuty and EC2 Inspector, and implementing SSO via AWS IAM Identity Center with RBAC.
- Optimized cloud costs through Savings Plans analysis, log retention tuning, and Cloudflare caching strategies during peak traffic periods.
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Aug 2023 - May 2024University of Missouri – Kansas City, USA
- Developed a robust REST API using Django and Python, which integrated with the front-end and improved the application's performance by 25%.
- Automated data processing workflows with Python scripts, reducing manual data entry errors by 70%.
- Utilized Docker and Kubernetes for containerization and orchestration, reducing deployment time by 35% and increasing system reliability.
- Led over 100 training sessions on DevOps tools, including AWS, Azure, and CI/CD practices.
System Engineer - DevOps
Jan 2021 - Aug 2022Tata Consultancy Services, India
- Worked with team of 10 members to streamline the product migration from on-premises to Kubernetes on AWS.
- Led the design and implementation of CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, reducing manual intervention and enhancing code quality.
- Deployed container orchestration with Kubernetes, improving high availability and reliability of applications by 30%.
- Used ELK and Prometheus for real-time monitoring and logging, identifying potential issues and reducing them by 25%.
Assistant System Engineer - DevOps
Sept 2019 – Dec 2020Tata Consultancy Services, India
- Designed and deployed scalable, secure AWS solutions using EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, Auto Scaling Groups, and OpsWorks.
- Developed automated CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, reducing manual deployment tasks by 70% and improving efficiency.
- Automated patch management with Ansible for Windows and Linux servers, reducing critical vulnerabilities by 80%.
Education
Masters in Computer Science
Machine Learning, Cloud Computing
Received Graduate Scholarship
Certifications
AWS Solution Architect Associate
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
AWS Cloud Practitioner
Google Cloud Security Fundamentals
Python Programming
Technical Skills
Cloud Platforms
CI/CD & DevOps
Container & Orchestration
Messaging & Streaming
Monitoring & Quality
Programming Languages
Frameworks
Databases
Version Control
Leadership & Achievements
Volunteer at local tech meetups
Participant in the CNCF Hackathon
Participant in the AWS re:Invent 2024
Awarded as the top performer among a team of 8