Saqib Yawar

Saqib Yawar Senior DevOps/DevSecOps Engineer - - Ottawa, ON K2S2N7 CAREER OBJECTIVE Turning high-level goals into tangible deliverables that help define an actionable roadmap to meet the company's business objectives. With a strong background in Cloud Operations, Service Delivery, DevOps, DevSecOps and Compliance, I am passionate about extracting value from the latest innovations in technologies, processes and trends. EXPERIENCE DEVOPS ENGINEER Cryptocurrency Exchange, April 2022-Present • Designed and implemented integrations with multiple blockchains to process and analyze operations, using Go, Ruby on Rails and Docker • Supported software development by enhancing infrastructure to deploy full product stack faster (from 8 hours to less than 2 hours per deployment) • Collaborated with team in architecture design and implementation of infrastructure monitoring, security and scaling solutions in AWS (EC2, Route53, Lambda, ALB, ELB) using Terraform and Datadog • • Planned and Implemented migrations of legacy stack to Kubernetes (EKS) • Supported production environments through on-call rotations via PagerDuty and consistent troubleshooting of issues. Streamlined code deployment through the implementation of quality gates including automated load, integration and unit testing using Git Actions LEAD DEVSECOPS ENGINEER Tenovi, November 2022-March 2023 • Defined and implemented a cybersecurity program based on the NIST framework including all required processes and procedures (Risk Assessment, Vendor Assessment, Business Continuity, Access Management, Employee Training) • Implemented Single-Sign-On (SSO) infrastructure using JumpCloud all cloud services (JIRA, Confluence, AWS, Zoho CRM, Wordpress) including LDAP for VPN. • Developed and integrated a backend solution to present IOT data efficiently in Python (Django) using AWS services (Elastic Beanstalk, API Gateway, Lambda Functions, SNS) • Developed and implemented security and quality gates in Bitbucket Pipelines including Static Code Analysis and Software Composition Analysis, using Snyk, Black, Flake8 and SonarQube HEAD OF IT, CLOUD AND SECURITY, Montreal, QC Partner One Capital, April 2019-April 2022 • Managed Global SaaS Operations, Platform & Infrastructure Engineering, IT, Security and Service Delivery for all portfolio companies, including planning and executing cloud migration projects to consolidate technologies and services for all new acquisitions • Hired and lead team of 10 DevOps, IT and Security personnel, in three different timezones, using Jira for task management and Confluence as a knowledge base. • Developed and implemented policies, procedures and controls for compliance with ISO27001, ISO27701 and GDPR, including developing and coordinating security training programs • Implemented and maintained CI/CD for cloud architecture and services in AWS, Azure and IBM Cloud using Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins and Azure DevOps Pipelines. • Architected and developed microservice architecture for legacy monolithic application using Helm charts, Kubernetes (Openshift), Istio (Openshift Service Mesh), Docker, Python (Django), Redis, Kafka, Envoy, OAuth and Keycloak • Designed and deployed continuous monitoring of services and infrastructure using Datadog, Logstash Kibana and Filebeat for legacy systems, and Kiali, Yaeger, Grafana and Prometheus for Kubernetes based service mesh. LEAD DEVOPS ENGINEER, Montreal, QC Thinking Capital Financial Corporation, June 2017-April 2019 • Hired and managed a team of 3 DevOps engineers including planning task execution using Jira, defining team roadmaps and budgeting. • • Coordinated and implemented security controls to meet ISO27001 requirements. • • Developed and deployed CI/CD pipelines for micro-services using Jenkins and Python. • Architected and implemented enhancement to current services and infrastructure using Docker, Consul, Rancher, Kubernetes, Python (Django), MySQL and PostgreSQL. Designed and implemented automated infrastructure management for highly-available cloud architecture in AWS and Azure using Terraform, Ansible and Chef. Implemented continuous monitoring and centralized logging for services and infrastructure using NewRelic, Dynatrace, Kibana, Logstash and Filebeat. SENIOR DEVOPS ENGINEER, Montreal, QC X2O Media Inc, January 2017-June 2017 • Designed and implemented automated infrastructure and configuration management of legacy infrastructure in VMWare (VSphere) and Hyper-V, using Ansible and Chef • Architected and implemented migration to Azure Cloud including MSSQL database migration, automated infrastructure creation and setup using Terraform and Ansible, and automated service deployments through TeamCity. • Implemented and maintained logging, monitoring and escalation systems using Filebeat, Logstash, Kibana, Dynatrace and PagerDuty. • Developed internal tools to streamline processes using Python(Django), MongoDB, Celery, RabbitMQ and Redis. LEAD DEVOPS ENGINEER, Montreal, QC Alayacare, May 2015-December 2016 • • Hired and manged a team of 2 DevOps engineers, including planning projects, training and execution. • Designed and Implemented a highly-available HIPAA compliant VMWare(VSphere) based solution in an On-Premise cluster, including deploying and maintaining a Galera Cluster for MySQL, Pfsense firewall cluster for security, Ceph cluster for object storage, Ansible for configuration management and NewRelic for monitoring. • Architected and deployed a HIPAA compliant AWS infrastructure to migrate from On-Premise, including lift-andshift to EC2 via Terraform and Ansible, DNS via Route53, Object storage via S3, OpenVPN cluster for secured access, OpenVAS automated scanning and monitoring via Sydig and NewRelic Created and maintained a complete CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins and Travis CI, including database migrations through Liquibase and internal deployment CLI written in Python(Click) • Re-designed and deployed the microservice architecture to be based on Docker containers and used Rancher to facilitate creations and deployment of highly-available clusters in all environments. • Evaluated Business Analytics solutions, selected and deployed Pentaho including infrastructure-as-code via Ansible, ETL automations and warehousing DEVOPS ENGINEER, Montreal, QC Evolio.ca, May 2014-May 2015 • • • • Lead a team of 4 developers including planning o tasks, training and execution of duties. Deployed a CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins including writing a load testing service using Locust Modified Python(Django) application to handle tasks asynchronous via Celery and RabbitMQ. Designed and implemented a highly-available infrastructure using Ansible for configuration, GlusterFS for data copy and, OpenNMS and UptimeRobot for availability monitoring. MONITORING SOLUTIONS DEVELOPER, Montreal, QC Datavalet Technologies, November 2012-April 2014 • Implemented new features in OpenNMS using Java Spring Framework and Hibernate including monitoring of custom Access Points and Controllers • Designed and coded new software based in Python(Django) to serve as a middleware between internal applications and external services. • Created a custom Chrome Browser extension for OpenNMS(https://bitbucket.org/ssaqibyawargmailcom/opennmschrome-extension/src/master/) and presented it at the Developers Conference EDUCATION MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (M.B.A.) IN BUSINESS ANALYTICS CANDIDATE, Ottawa Carleton University, Expected graduation 2025 BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (B.S.) IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, Montreal McGill University, 2012 SKILLS Azure AWS CI/CD Helm Docker Kubernetes Infrastructure As Code (IaC) Configuration As Code Python Monitoring CERTIFICATIONS • • Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (Lapsed) • Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate