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Experience

1. 03/2023 – Present Abu Dhabi, UAE · International

   Senior Site Reliability Engineer · DevOps Lead

   Group 42 (G42)

   • Lead a 6-member SRE team delivering cloud and on-premises platform engineering across AI, GOVINT, OSINT, RND, and Smart Nation verticals.
   • Designed and deployed production LLM serving on NVIDIA H100/H200 GPU clusters — vLLM with tensor parallelism, 7B to 72B models, AWQ 4-bit quantization (144GB → 36GB), continuous batching, prefix caching; P99 TTFT < 200 ms at 1,000+ concurrent requests.
   • Built a full GPU observability stack — Prometheus, Grafana, DCGM Exporter — with real-time visibility into GPU utilization, memory pressure, and inference throughput; 30+ dashboards.
   • Architected and managed multi-cluster Kubernetes (AKS, RKE2) including air-gapped on-premises deployments with MIG-partitioned H100/H200 GPU nodes for multi-tenant ML workloads.
   • Deployed enterprise AI platform components — LiteLLM API gateway, Open WebUI, OpenClaw AI agent platform, Mattermost, shared PostgreSQL backend — containerized on isolated bridge networks.
   • Designed LangGraph multi-agent SRE automation (supervisor + retrieval + execution + validation agents) with human-in-the-loop gates — cut overnight on-call interventions by 40%; MCP tool servers reduced operational toil by 50%.
   • Implemented GitOps-driven platform lifecycle with ArgoCD and Flux across dev/staging/prod; led SRE practice adoption — SLO/SLA definition, error budgets, incident runbooks, chaos engineering.
   • Managed Azure Entra ID RBAC, service-principal governance, and least-privilege access for enterprise applications and CI/CD pipelines.
   • Delivered cross-border infrastructure projects with international client teams from architecture through hypercare.
2. 07/2019 – 03/2023 United Arab Emirates

   Site Reliability Engineer

   Group 42 (G42)

   • Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines on Kubernetes with Terraform and Docker — significantly reduced deployment times and improved release quality.
   • Architected scalable, cost-effective cloud infrastructures on AWS and Azure, deploying AI/ML services with high availability and fault tolerance.
   • Automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration with Ansible and Terraform; designed Azure security solutions aligned with compliance requirements.
   • Deployed and managed the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) for centralized logging and real-time monitoring.
   • Configured and managed AWS services — EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS, EKS, Load Balancers — with CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Prometheus, and Grafana for observability.
   • Handled Linux system administration and database administration (backup/recovery, performance tuning, security) across production environments.
3. 01/2018 – 07/2019 Abu Dhabi, UAE

   Cloud Engineer

   First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB)

   • Delivered DevOps and cloud engineering for the FGB–NBAD banks migration and integration — one of the UAE's largest banking mergers — supporting mission-critical financial infrastructure under strict regulatory and availability requirements.
   • Managed enterprise Azure cloud infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible for repeatable, audit-compliant environments.
   • Designed and maintained CI/CD pipelines for multiple development teams; implemented Docker + Kubernetes containerization strategies.
   • Contributed to Linux hardening, security patching, and compliance alignment for regulated banking workloads; coordinated on RBAC, network policy, and secrets management.
4. 05/2017 – 01/2018 Abu Dhabi, UAE

   Technical Specialist

   HCL Infosystems Ltd.

   • Delivered a software-defined data centre transformation for Daman — Abu Dhabi's government-affiliated health insurance provider — including migration of existing Linux, Windows, and virtualization workloads to the new cloud-enabled data centre.
   • Implemented, administered, and managed Oracle Virtual Manager (OVM); owned installation, operational management, and capacity expansion.
   • Authored service reports covering executed tasks, findings, and solutions for the client.
5. 08/2015 – 04/2017 Bengaluru, India

   Linux Engineer

   HCL Infosystems Ltd.

   • Operated India's largest Biometric Data Centre for UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India) — 3,000+ physical servers (IBM, HP, Dell blade and rack) and 800+ virtual machines.
   • Administered Linux across CentOS, Ubuntu, and Red Hat; fine-tuned system parameters for workload-specific performance; automated routine operations with Bash and Python.
   • Hardened Linux servers — access controls, firewalls, kernel patching — and diagnosed network issues with Wireshark, tcpdump, and ncat.
   • Managed VMware vSphere (vCenter, ESXi, clusters) — VM lifecycle, resource optimization, datastores, storage policies, and storage vMotion.
6. 10/2012 – 06/2013 Hyderabad, India

   Technical Support Engineer

   Polaris

   • Provided L2 technical support for Videocon d2h — an Indian DTH pay-TV operator — troubleshooting Linux-related incidents to keep services running smoothly.
   • Administered Linux servers (CentOS, Ubuntu, Red Hat) — installation, configuration, user/access management, and application troubleshooting.
   • Wrote shell scripts to automate routine tasks and maintained technical documentation, SOPs, and troubleshooting guides.

Certifications

• Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) · Valid 02/2026 – 07/2027
• Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) · Valid 07/2025 – 07/2027
• AWS Solutions Architect – Associate · ID PFR7HTQ25EFQQS9T
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) · Renewal in Progress
• G42 Cloud Certified Engineer · ID G42C/SVD/CRT/0475
• Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) · ID 150-012-904
• Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)
• Cloudera Hadoop Administrator
• GitOps Certified Fundamentals
• Cloud Architecture: Design Decisions

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