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Haris Ali

DevOps Engineer @ Techtimize | Terraform · Kubernetes · AWS · GCP

KCNA Certified

Experienced in setting up and improving CI/CD pipelines, automating infrastructure, and enhancing developer workflows. Proficient in Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, and GitHub Actions, with hands-on production experience across AWS and GCP. Gold Medalist in Software Engineering (3.96/4.00 CGPA), KCNA certified. Let's orchestrate solutions for seamless delivery.

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Lahore, Pakistan

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Technical Skills

Kubernetes
AWSAWS
GCP
Docker
Terraform
CI/CD
›full toolkit (30 tools across 11 categories)

Cloud Platforms

  • ›AWS: EC2, VPC, CloudWatch, ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS
  • GCP: Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Cloud Build, Pub/Sub, IAM, DLP, Secret Manager, GCS

IaC

  • Terraform
  • OpenTofu
  • Ansible

CI/CD

  • Jenkins
  • GitHub Actions
  • ›AWS CodePipeline
  • GCP Cloud Build

Containerization

  • Docker
  • Kubernetes

Monitoring & Observability

  • New Relic
  • ›CloudWatch
  • ›CrowdSec

Scripting

  • Bash
  • Python
  • PowerShell

Databases

  • ›Amazon RDS
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB

Virtualization

  • VMware
  • Proxmox

Version Control

  • GitHub
  • ›AWS CodeCommit

Web Servers / Middleware

  • Nginx
  • Apache Tomcat

Other

  • Cloudflare Tunnels
  • WireGuard
  • Docker Compose
  • n8n (self-hosted)

./projects

Projects

PrivyMesh

Creator — Final Year Project

Quantum-resistant peer-to-peer VPN using WireGuard with post-quantum cryptography.

WireGuardPost-quantum cryptoDockerGitHub Actions

Built and containerized a fully functional mesh VPN with an automated CI/CD pipeline.

frontend ↗app ↗app-releases ↗relay ↗backend ↗

Self-Hosted Infrastructure

Owner / Operator

10+ self-hosted services on Hetzner/AWS including n8n, AFFiNE, and a Kubernetes cluster on Talos OS.

Docker ComposeTalos OSKubernetesCloudflare TunnelsHetznerAWS

Cost-optimized personal infrastructure running production-grade services.

tfvars_sync.py

Author

GCS-backed Terraform tfvars synchronization tool for secure secret management.

PythonGCSTerraform

136 passing tests, passed principal-engineer code review, adopted for production tfvars workflow.

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Experience

release/2026.08 — HEADnow

Techtimize

DevOps Engineer

Aug 2026 → present · 1m · Lahore, Pakistan

  • ›Managing AWS cloud infrastructure with Terraform for multi-environment deployments.
  • ›Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Jenkins.
  • ›Containerizing applications with Docker and orchestrating with Kubernetes.
release/2025.06

RolusTech

DevOps Engineer

Jun 2025 → Jul 2026 · 1y 2m · Lahore, Pakistan

  • ›Managed multi-environment GCP infrastructure with Terraform — Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, Cloud Build, Pub/Sub, and Secret Manager — for production workloads.
  • ›Debugged and resolved production incidents including Cloud Armor OWASP false positives, Pub/Sub IAM failures, and Cloud Build trigger misconfigurations, with documented root cause analysis.
  • ›Configured AWS infrastructure (EC2, VPC, API Gateway, Lambda) and streamlined deployments with Auto Scaling Groups and CodeDeploy for high availability.
  • ›Identified critical security issues — plaintext secrets, unversioned state buckets, SOC-2 gaps — and hardened server access controls.
  • ›Containerized and orchestrated application deployments with Docker and Kubernetes across Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and AWS CodePipeline pipelines.
  • ›Resolved a 54-resource Terraform state drift across environments and built an automated tfvars sync utility with comprehensive test coverage.
  • ›Contributed 40+ Terraform PRs; introduced Git flow and versioning practices, and deployed CI/CD across Python, PHP, and Node.js stacks.
release/2025.03

AXA Business Technologies

DevOps Intern

Mar 2025 → May 2025 · 3m · Islamabad, Pakistan

  • ›Created and managed virtual machines using VMware and Proxmox, including resource provisioning and snapshot management.
  • ›Performed Linux storage expansion and system administration tasks.
  • ›Installed and configured Apache Tomcat, Nginx, and Jenkins for web services and CI/CD.
  • ›Installed Docker and deployed custom container images.

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Education

BSc Software Engineering

University of Lahore

Feb 2022 – Feb 2026

  • ›CGPA: 3.96 / 4.00 — Gold Medalist
  • ›Dean's Honor List: 2023, 2024, 2025

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Certifications

KCNA — Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate badge
KCNA — Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate ↗

The Linux Foundation

Certified

Kubernetes for the Absolute Beginners with Hands-on-Labs

KodeKloud (Coursera)

Completed

AWS Cloud Technical Essentials

AWS (Coursera)

Completed

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