Ahmed Faizan

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE Software Engineer & DevOps Specialist Results-driven Software Engineering graduate from NUST with a proven track record of building scalable, production-grade systems. Experienced in managing complex infrastructure across Azure, AWS, and on-premises environments. I specialize in Kubernetes orchestration, CI/CD automation, and FinOps, notably reducing cloud expenditures by 80% through strategic resource optimization. With a technical toolkit spanning Go and K8s I bridge the gap between robust backend development and efficient system operations. I am passionate about introducing simplicity and efficiency into the development lifecycle through Observability and Internal Developer Platforms. EDUCATION BE Software Engineering School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (SEECS) , Islamabad , 3.05 (2026) INTERNSHIP EXPERIENCE Cowlar Design Studio 01-Nov-2024 - 01-Sep-2025 DevOps Engineer • Led Microsoft ISV Success Programme to unlock expanded benefits. Published a retail solution on Azure Marketplace using ARM templates, maintaining engagement with Microsoft Solution Architects. • Implemented observability stack from scratch for both application-level and infrastructure-level monitoring of on-prem bare-metal servers. • Configured on-prem Mac and Linux-based GitLab runners, reducing build times by 50%, improving Flutter and Docker builds reliability. • Deployed a bare- metal Kubernetes cluster using Containerd, Flannel, and MetalLB; automated setup with Ansible playbooks and Helm templating. • Cut Azure billing costs by 80% through FinOps practices, identified unused resources and calculated ROI per dollar invested. • Built a self-service internal developer platform (IDP) automating multi-environment on-prem deployments via Ansible and Nginx routing abstraction. • Collaborated with stakeholders on DevOps strategy, talent acquisition, and role definition to strengthen team definition. Synapse Solutions 01-Jun-2023 - 01-Jul-2024 Software Engineer Built: - Admin Portal of healthcare platform for North American client on Upwork. - Backend of Mobile App focused on gig-economy of Hong Kong. FINAL YEAR PROJECT Sedata.AI Observability and security evaluation platform for AI agents, providing real-time insights into agents performance, cost, and secure- governance. • Published a TypeScript SDK on npm registry for instrumenting MCP servers. • Integrated with OpenTelemetry APIs for collecting logs, metrics, and traces across distributed systems. • Implemented ClickHouse-based analytics pipeline to efficiently query and visualize large-scale telemetry data. TECHNICAL EXPERTISE Golang Open source contributions at NVIDIA KAI-Scheduler Project

Software Engineer & DevOps Specialist Results-driven Software Engineering graduate from NUST with a proven track record of building scalable, production-grade systems. Experienced in managing complex infrastructure across Azure, AWS, and on-premises environments. I specialize in Kubernetes orchestration, CI/CD automation, and FinOps, notably reducing cloud expenditures by 80% through strategic resource optimization. With a technical toolkit spanning Go and K8s I bridge the gap between robust backend development and efficient system operations. I am passionate about introducing simplicity and efficiency into the development lifecycle through Observability and Internal Developer Platforms.