Imran Ahmed

Experience

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  Bluetrident Webservices Group

  Jul 2003 - Mar 2014

  Founder and Director

  Company : Original website content hosting and Niche performance hostingSystem Management for ~30 Clients around the WorldManage servers for multi tentant webhosting service.Built, Deployed, Troubleshoot and Optimise Hardware, LAMP, databases and WebApplicationsTroubleshoot Networking IssuesManaged Advertising Campaigns and SalesManaged Team of 4 to Manage Helpdesk

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  Murray Sharma & Associates

  Feb 2004 - May 2014

  Freelance IT Consultant

  Company : Accountancy and Tax Advise Firm. Windows Server Administrator, Security Troubleshooting, Mail Administrator, ISP Liason and Remote Administrator. + Remote Desktop Services and VPN services evaluation and Deployment.+ Data recovery after hardware failure+ Setup, scheduling and verification of redundant backups+ Setup, deployment and troubleshooting of Workstations+ MYOB Install, upgrade and Troubleshooting

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  Mango Ideas Inc

  Nov 2007 - Feb 2012

  Technology and Infrastructure Manager

  Company : Managed Webhosting, Design and Cloud Services company.Technology and Infrastructure ManagerJanuary 2012 - present+ Fostering Client Relations+ Added value : Designed, Implemented, and Manage SAN based cloud offering.+ Added value : Deployed company Anycast DNS infrastructure for clients use+ Leads, Supports, Recruitment and Training of Midlevel Operations TeamLevel 3 Server AdministratorJanuary 2008 - January 2012Maintains a steady state operations environment which includes auditing existing procedure+ Experience of 24x7x365 Production Datacenter+ Developed Kickstart based Automated Provisioning for servers.+ Management, configuration, deployment of Asterix based company PBX system.+ Scripting shell code for service monitoring, application availability improvementHelpdesk ManagerNovember 2007 - January 2008Led a small team of Helpdesk staff, and managed SLA delivery+ Windows based monitoring server deployment+ Setup and deployed redundant company website infrastructure+ Setup and deployed colo billing infrastructure Show less

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  Nuffie Productions

  May 2013 - Mar 2014

  Systems Administrator

  Systems and Operations Management of Cloud Infrastructure- Automation of Cloud Infrastructure ( Chef, Opsworks, Amazon )- Continuous Deployment and Delivery

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  CricHQ

  Apr 2014 - Apr 2019

  - Automation of Software Development Life Cycle: (build, tag, testing, deploy and scaling )- Automation of Stakeholder notification with Release logs.- Headless Browser Testing: verification of deployments (Javascript SPA Stacks )- Migration of Mobile Team CI infrastructure : Jenkins to CircleCI- Custom CI Platform: Spec, collaborate and build integration platform Mobile teams to run long running tests that exceed allowable runtime on CircleCI.- Cross platform Cascading CI/CD pipeline- Containerision of Monolith applications: scaling applications without costing dev time- Migration of single server legacy .net application to modern .net load balanced setup- Migration from Opsworks Chef to Docker EB : to improve developer productivity ( Deploys: 8min vs. 2min | Scaling: 15min vs. 2 mins )- Consolidating EB applications to AWS ECS Cluster: ( Scaling & Deploys: <10 secs )- ElasticSearch 5.2 service : Utilising spot instances for reduced opex, highly scalable, hourly snapshots to S3, performance dashboard and auto scaling based on performance metrics- AWS Multi Account Authentication setup with seamless AWS CLI access. https://github.com/nappa32/aws-cross-account-setup - DevOps Advocacy ( individual and group ) : Workshops on CloudFormation, VPC, AWS Lamda (python/nodejs), ApiGateway, and ElasticSearch. - Consult teams on projects : from concept to delivery of solutions. Show less

  • Development Operations Manager

    Aug 2015 - Apr 2019

  • System Administrator

    Apr 2014 - Mar 2016
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  Fairfax Media NZ, now Stuff

  Nov 2017 - Aug 2018

  DevOps Engineer
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  Loyalty New Zealand

  Aug 2018 - May 2021

  DevOps Engineer
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  Loyalty NZ

  May 2021 - now

  Senior DevOps Engineer

  Migrating to Cloud: - Onpremis PostgreSQL 9.1 to AWS RDS 13.0: Migration with CICD pipelines, checksums, backfilling, testing and troubleshooting.- Legacy Applications: Investigation, Planning and Containerisation with Docker, Kubernetes and CICD Pipelines.- Kafka Infrastructure MigrationWAF Service Migration and Rationalisation ( Zscaler, CloudFlare and Redshield )Datacentre Decommissioning: Onprem and Vmware on AWSOracle Database and Oracle Apex Migration and UpgradesAzure AD / Databricks / Alation IntegrationAWS EMR Platform migrationTableau Server Migration : Windows to Linux Self hostedSecondment: Acting Head of TechOpsMagento Store Upgrade Show less