Ali Jabir
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Credentials
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AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
Amazon Web Services (AWS)May, 2021- Nov, 2024 -
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
Amazon Web ServicesSep, 2017- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Featurespace
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United Kingdom
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Software Development
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200 - 300 Employee
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Cloud Architect
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Dec 2022 - Present
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Wellcome Sanger Institute
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United Kingdom
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Research Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Platform Tech. Lead
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May 2022 - Nov 2022
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ABOUT YOU
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Germany
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Technology, Information and Internet
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700 & Above Employee
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Lead Cloud Operations Engineer
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Aug 2018 - May 2022
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Xgrid.co
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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100 - 200 Employee
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Sr. Engineer | Cloud Automation | DevOps
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Jan 2017 - Jul 2018
- Responsibilities • Server and Network configuration management/automatoin using Ansible and scripting with Bash/Python • Management and deployment of company software on AWS public cloud • Pipelines management using Jenkins for CI / CD • Dockerization and deployment/migration of applications on in-house Kubernetes (K8s) cluster • Design and development of a framework for automated setup of different cloud and HPC based application workloads on x86 and ARM based bare-metal servers • Development of hardware agnostic tools for automated build, installation and testing of cloud based application workloads on x86 and ARM based processors • Provide tests status and statistical data for different tests to be displayed on the monitoring/visualization dashboard • Management of shell based Linux/Unix environments • Interacting with teams from around the globe to ensure product delivery. • Source code management using Git and Differential (Phabricator) • Create user/technical documentation around softwares and its new features. - Achievements • Design and implementation for network automation of VPN tunnels on Palo Alto Network Firewalls inside VPCs on AWS. • Deployment and hosting of Atlin (an in-house coding platform) on AWS using EC2, EBS, S3 and Route53. • Architecture design for in-house K8s cluster with CEPH as block store and NFS for file sharing across multiple worker nodes. • Certified AWS Solutions Architect - Associate • Automated single/multi node deployments of different open source cloud platforms like Hadoop, MySQL etc. and HPC workloads like OpenBLAS, STREAM, SNAP etc. • Integration of specific benchmarks for specific application workloads like HiBench, sysbench etc. for performance benchmarking • Created and maintained multi-stage periodic and ondemand pipelines for MySQL and OpenBLAS on both x86 and ARM based servers on Jenkins • Automated gathering of logs from the test/production cluster for parsing of metrics to be displayed on visualization dashboard Show less
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DevOps | Cloud Computing
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Mar 2016 - Dec 2016
– Responsibilities • Development, maintenance and packaging of production quality code for installation/upgrade of company’s cloud software. • Software deployment based on Dockers/LXCs frameworks using Ansible, Bash, Python, Libvirt and VirtualBox on Ubuntu, RedHat and CentOS • Cluster's orchestration and tasks automation • PLUMgrid Open Networking Suite (ONS) platform integration with Rackspace/OpenStack Ansible distribution. • Package management for the solutions using Debian/RPM packaging. • PLUMgrid product release testing, qualification and certification with Rackspace. • Source code management using Git. – Achievements • Integrated PLUMgrid ONS 5.x and 6.0 with Rackspace/OpenStack Ansible using Liberty and Mitaka releases respectively. https://github.com/plumgrid/plumgrid-ansible/tree/stable/mitaka/plumgrid_playbooks • Got PLUMgrid ONS certified with Rackspace-12 (Liberty) and Rackspace-13 (Mitaka) GA releases. Involves running Rally and Tempest testing suites. • Deployed/debugged Rackspace-13 (Mitaka) with PLUMgrid ONS 6.0 on a 131 node OpenStack Innovation Center (OSIC) cluster for services such as nova, neutron, reabbitmq and galera. • Developed a RESTful API using Node.js giving an abstraction layer to front-end users to talk to PLUMgrid platform. API is packaged in RPM for CentOS 7 and this API is being used in production. • Development of PLUMgrid platform plugins for Rackspace Monitoring-as-a-Service (MAAS) as a third party. • Contributor to open source communities of openstack-ansible and plumgrid-ansible Show less
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Center for Advanced Research in Engineering
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Pakistan
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Research Services
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100 - 200 Employee
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Senior Design Engineer
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Aug 2014 - Feb 2016
Embedded systems design, based on DSP, FPGA, and ARM processors. Project: Software Defined Radio Design, implementation and validation of physical layer algorithms for wide band communication. Worked extensively on - Automatic Gain Control (AGC) Algorithm - Start of Burst Detection using LTE based Sequences - Resource Optimization using Folding and CSD techniques - Multiple Clock Domain and Mesosynchronous signal handling - Timing Closure - Python and Bash Scripting Show less
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Education
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School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (SEECS), NUST
Master's degree, Electrical Engineering -
College of Electrical & Mechanical Engineering, NUST
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering