Saqib Yawar
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Hussam Butt
As part of the DevOps team at Alayacare, I worked with Saqib on multiple projects for the past one year which included designing, implementing and supporting high availability architecture for our application, continuously improve our software release life-cycle and other processes. Saqib was a professional, DevOps Team Lead of the highest caliber. He is proactive, result oriented and responsible on any projects he works on and is ready to put all his energy and time to get the job done. In addition to his skills and qualifications, Saqib has personal qualities that make him the well-suited to leadership. He naturally falls into the role of the point person, that many of us go to with questions. He is not afraid to explore new avenues in order to improve existing processes, for example, he planned and implemented the migration of our infrastructure to a completely new provider while introducing new tools to help us make our deployment processes smoother. Working with Saqib was a pleasure and I believe he will be an incredible asset to any team he joins in the future.
Dominick Rivard
I have worked with Saqib in many projects and it always ends with great results. He is learning fast and doesn't fear the latest technologies. You can count on Saqib when it comes to put some thinking in the application you are trying to create. We did so many whiteboard session at trying to create the best products and it is always a pleasure to talk with him, he is a great help to clarify your ideas and what is possible to accomplish in the project situation. You can always be sure he will be there with you even if it is 1 o'clock in the morning trying to fix the issue you have in production. With him on your side you are sure your team will always deliver.
Hussam Butt
As part of the DevOps team at Alayacare, I worked with Saqib on multiple projects for the past one year which included designing, implementing and supporting high availability architecture for our application, continuously improve our software release life-cycle and other processes. Saqib was a professional, DevOps Team Lead of the highest caliber. He is proactive, result oriented and responsible on any projects he works on and is ready to put all his energy and time to get the job done. In addition to his skills and qualifications, Saqib has personal qualities that make him the well-suited to leadership. He naturally falls into the role of the point person, that many of us go to with questions. He is not afraid to explore new avenues in order to improve existing processes, for example, he planned and implemented the migration of our infrastructure to a completely new provider while introducing new tools to help us make our deployment processes smoother. Working with Saqib was a pleasure and I believe he will be an incredible asset to any team he joins in the future.
Dominick Rivard
I have worked with Saqib in many projects and it always ends with great results. He is learning fast and doesn't fear the latest technologies. You can count on Saqib when it comes to put some thinking in the application you are trying to create. We did so many whiteboard session at trying to create the best products and it is always a pleasure to talk with him, he is a great help to clarify your ideas and what is possible to accomplish in the project situation. You can always be sure he will be there with you even if it is 1 o'clock in the morning trying to fix the issue you have in production. With him on your side you are sure your team will always deliver.
Hussam Butt
As part of the DevOps team at Alayacare, I worked with Saqib on multiple projects for the past one year which included designing, implementing and supporting high availability architecture for our application, continuously improve our software release life-cycle and other processes. Saqib was a professional, DevOps Team Lead of the highest caliber. He is proactive, result oriented and responsible on any projects he works on and is ready to put all his energy and time to get the job done. In addition to his skills and qualifications, Saqib has personal qualities that make him the well-suited to leadership. He naturally falls into the role of the point person, that many of us go to with questions. He is not afraid to explore new avenues in order to improve existing processes, for example, he planned and implemented the migration of our infrastructure to a completely new provider while introducing new tools to help us make our deployment processes smoother. Working with Saqib was a pleasure and I believe he will be an incredible asset to any team he joins in the future.
Dominick Rivard
I have worked with Saqib in many projects and it always ends with great results. He is learning fast and doesn't fear the latest technologies. You can count on Saqib when it comes to put some thinking in the application you are trying to create. We did so many whiteboard session at trying to create the best products and it is always a pleasure to talk with him, he is a great help to clarify your ideas and what is possible to accomplish in the project situation. You can always be sure he will be there with you even if it is 1 o'clock in the morning trying to fix the issue you have in production. With him on your side you are sure your team will always deliver.
Hussam Butt
As part of the DevOps team at Alayacare, I worked with Saqib on multiple projects for the past one year which included designing, implementing and supporting high availability architecture for our application, continuously improve our software release life-cycle and other processes. Saqib was a professional, DevOps Team Lead of the highest caliber. He is proactive, result oriented and responsible on any projects he works on and is ready to put all his energy and time to get the job done. In addition to his skills and qualifications, Saqib has personal qualities that make him the well-suited to leadership. He naturally falls into the role of the point person, that many of us go to with questions. He is not afraid to explore new avenues in order to improve existing processes, for example, he planned and implemented the migration of our infrastructure to a completely new provider while introducing new tools to help us make our deployment processes smoother. Working with Saqib was a pleasure and I believe he will be an incredible asset to any team he joins in the future.
Dominick Rivard
I have worked with Saqib in many projects and it always ends with great results. He is learning fast and doesn't fear the latest technologies. You can count on Saqib when it comes to put some thinking in the application you are trying to create. We did so many whiteboard session at trying to create the best products and it is always a pleasure to talk with him, he is a great help to clarify your ideas and what is possible to accomplish in the project situation. You can always be sure he will be there with you even if it is 1 o'clock in the morning trying to fix the issue you have in production. With him on your side you are sure your team will always deliver.
Credentials
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Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
MicrosoftDec, 2022- Nov, 2024 -
Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
MicrosoftDec, 2022- Nov, 2024 -
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
Amazon Web ServicesNov, 2018- Nov, 2024
Experience
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DevOps Ways
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Canada
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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DevSecOps Consultant/Co-founder
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May 2022 - Present
Consulting Services - DevOps, DevSecOps, Compliance, Software Development Cryptocurrency Exchange (Current Mandate) - Design and implement CI/CD pipelines for blockchain deployments - Integrate continuous monitoring and automated alerting solutions - Develop integrations with multiple blockchains to process operations - Develop and implement infrastructure to support development environments - Coordinate with asset issuers to debug and resolve issues - Conduct integration and load testing - Technologies used include: AWS Cloud Stack, Terraform, Docker, Golang, Python, Ruby on Rails, Datadog Show less
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Assima
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United States
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Head of IT, Cloud and Security
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Aug 2019 - Apr 2022
- Plan, coordinate and implement global operations related to cloud and security- Manage Team of DevSecOps, IT and Security personnel- Develop policies, procedures and implement controls for security best practices and compliances to ISO27001, ISO27701, GDPR and other security and privacy compliance requirements- Setup and maintain software configuration systems and repositories- Develop and document processes for delivering application services from build to production- Establish standard for tools related to building, deploying, and monitoring software systems and documenting best practices- Establish the infrastructure, process, training, and measures that ensure repeatable service deployment into production- Drive the DevOps mindset across the entire organization- Train and educate operations, engineers, product managers and other stakeholders on CI/CD practices and DevOps culture- Initiate and manage projects for relevant security compliances.- Participates in the planning and design of security systems by evaluating and applying application security frameworks and technologies.- Develop, manage and oversee the implementation of the security requirements and standards for the SDLC.- Assists in determining security requirements by evaluating business strategies and requirements; researches information security standards; conducts system security and vulnerability analyses and risk assessments; studies application architecture/platform.- Develop and coordinate security training programs.Technologies used include:AWS Cloud Stack, Jira, Confluence, Openshift, Docker, Kubernetes, Python, Django, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, RabbitMQ, Redis, Kafka, Kibana, Logstash, Filebeat, Datadog, SiSense, Citrix Show less
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DevSecOps Lead
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Apr 2019 - Aug 2019
Responsibilities include:- Build and manage a global DevSecOps team- Work collaboratively with the entire organization from developers to business stakeholders- Design, build and maintain a cloud environment and continuous integration / continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to a combination of Docker/Kubernetes and VM Based systems- Define and setup application quality/health monitoring tools- Setup and maintain software configuration systems and repositories- Develop and document processes for delivering application services from build to production- Establish standard for tools related to building, deploying, and monitoring software systems and documenting best practices- Establish the infrastructure, process, training, and measures that ensure repeatable service deployment into production- Drive the DevOps mindset across the entire organization- Train and educate operations, engineers, product managers and other stakeholders on CI/CD practices and DevOps culture- Initiate and manage projects for relevant security compliances.- Participates in the planning and design of security systems by evaluating and applying application security frameworks and technologies.- Develop, manage and oversee the implementation of the security requirements and standards for the SDLC.- Assists in determining security requirements by evaluating business strategies and requirements; researches information security standards; conducts system security and vulnerability analyses and risk assessments; studies application architecture/platform.- Develop and coordinate security training programs. Show less
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Driven
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Canada
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Financial Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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DevOps Lead (Tech and Team)
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Jun 2017 - Apr 2019
Responsibilities include: - Managing the DevOps Team roadmap including future improvements and budgetary considerations - Solution and design new improvement to enhance current applications and services - Coordinating with other teams and managing expectations for upcoming improvements - Coordinating with third party vendors to select, maintain and enhance the current infrastructure and product offering - Develop policies and procedures and implement controls for security best practices and compliances to ISO27001, including Risk analysis, treatment, business continuity and communication plans - Design, implement and maintaining the monitoring and escalation systems - Designing, implementing and supporting the highly available and secure AWS architecture - Day to day management of the distributed Cloud environments including automations, OS patching, centralized audit logging, automated configuration management, automated infrastructure management, load testing, performance analysis and improvement. - Create and maintain a fully automated build and deployment process for in-house micro-services - Research and Develop new tools and infrastructure components in anticipation of future needs - Participation in service on-call rotation for providing 24/7 incident response. Technologies used include: AWS Cloud Stack, Jira, Confluence, Docker, Consul, Rancher, Kubernetes, Python, Django, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, Jenkins, Ansible, Chef, Terraform, RabbitMQ, Redis, Kafka, Celery, Kibana, Logstash, Filebeat, Dynatrace, NewRelic, TalenD, SAS, Dynatrace, NewRelic Show less
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EnlightNS Inc
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Canada
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Computer Networking Products
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CTO & Co-Founder
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Jun 2015 - Dec 2018
EnlightNS is a project that was designed to push the boundaries of Dynamic and Managed DNS services. The project is implemented in python and all our client side tools are open-source. EnlightNS is a project that was designed to push the boundaries of Dynamic and Managed DNS services. The project is implemented in python and all our client side tools are open-source.
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X2O Media
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Canada
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Information Technology & Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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DevOps Engineer
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Jan 2017 - Jun 2017
Responsibilites Include: - Designing, implementing and supporting the high availability windows-based architecture based on the legacy infrastructure and Azure Cloud/On-Premise. - Day to day management of the distributed Cloud environments including automations, OS patching, centralised audit logging, automated configuration management, load testing, performance analysis and improvement etc. - Design, Implement and maintain the monitoring and escalation systems. - Collaborate with developers to bring new features and services into production. - Define and implement required processes for enhanced security, high-availability and compliance purposes. - Design, develop and maintain resilient, secure and efficient internal tools to streamline and enhance internal processes. - Participation in service on-call rotation for providing 24/7 incident response. Technologies used include: Azure, VMWare (VSphere),Hyper-V, Visual Studio, C#, MSSQL Management Studio, Docker, Rancher, Python, Django, Mongo, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, TeamCity, Jenkins, Ansible, Chef, Terraform, RabbitMQ, Redis, Kafka, Celery, Show less
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AlayaCare
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Canada
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Software Development
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400 - 500 Employee
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DevOps Team Lead
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Jul 2016 - Dec 2016
In addition to the responsibilities as a Senior DevOps Engineer, I was also responsible for: - Planning and Managing all DevOps projects,- Coordinating with third party vendors to maintain and enhance the current infrastructure and product offering,- Manage and train new and existing team members,- Research and Develop new tools and infrastructure components in anticipation of future needs.
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Senior DevOps Engineer
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May 2015 - Jul 2016
Responsibilities include:- Designing, implementing and supporting the high availability Linux-based architecture based on the legacy infrastructure, AWS and Private Cloud.- Day to day management of the distributed Cloud environments including automations, OS patching, centralised audit logging, automated configuration management, load testing, performance analysis and improvement etc.- Implement and maintain the monitoring and escalation systems.- Collaborate with developers to bring new features and services into production.- Create and maintain a fully automated build and deployment process for in-house micro-services- Design, implement and maintain infrastructure security, including server access management, user session audits, centralised authentication services, data management policies and procedures.- Design and implement resilient, secure and highly available database clusters, and conduct regular performance analysis and load testing.- Design, develop and maintain resilient, secure and efficient internal tools to streamline and enhance internal processes.- Develop and improve the business intelligence and business analysis solutions and infrastructure, including the ETL processes in place.- Participation in service on-call rotation for providing 24/7 incident response.Technologies used include:AWS, VMWare (VSphere), Docker, Rancher, Python, Django, Flask, Java, Pentaho BA, Pentaho Data Integration, MySQL, MariaDB (Galera cluster), Mongo, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, Jenkins, Travis CI, Bamboo, Ansible, Chef, Terraform, RabbitMQ, Redis, Kafka, Celery, NewRelic, OpenNMS, UptimeRobot, OpenVAS, Security Onion Show less
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EVOLIO.ca
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Canada
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Technology, Information and Internet
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior DevOps Engineer
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Oct 2014 - May 2015
Responsibilities included:- Designing and Developing new infrastructure solutions- Coordinating between teams to streamline development- Debugging, maintaining and upgrading legacy tools and frameworks- Design, implement and maintain internal development, integration and testing infrastructure- Debug, maintain and upgrade production infrastructure,- Deploy and configure continuous integration and deployment tools for automating build cycles- Configure and maintain internal and production serversTechnologies used include:Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Nginx, UWsgi, Jenkins, Ansible, Puppet, CentOS, OpenNMS, PostgreSQL, GlusterFS, Locust Show less
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Web Developer (Django/Python)
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May 2014 - Oct 2014
Responsibilites included:- Design and implement new features in Python and Django to enhance the main product offering- Coordinate and train new developers to develop- Re-design legacy automations and services, to increase efficiency and improve performance- Research new frameworks and libraries, to add to the main projectTechnologies used include:Python, Django, Ansible, RabbitMQ, Celery
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Datavalet
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Canada
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Information Technology & Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Monitoring Solutions Developer
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Nov 2012 - Apr 2014
Responsibilities include: - Design and implement new features in Python and Django to enhance the main product offering - Coordinate and train new developers to develop - Re-design legacy automations and services, to increase efficiency and improve performance - Research new frameworks and libraries, to add to the main project Technologies used include: Java Spring Framework, Hibernate, Python, SQLAlchemy, Django, OpenNMS, Puppet. Responsibilities include: - Design and implement new features in Python and Django to enhance the main product offering - Coordinate and train new developers to develop - Re-design legacy automations and services, to increase efficiency and improve performance - Research new frameworks and libraries, to add to the main project Technologies used include: Java Spring Framework, Hibernate, Python, SQLAlchemy, Django, OpenNMS, Puppet.
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The OpenNMS Group
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United States
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Computer Networking Products
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1 - 100 Employee
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Attendee
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Jun 2013 - Jun 2013
OpenNMS Dev-Jam: http://www.opennms.org/wiki/Dev-Jam_2013 Projects: http://www.opennms.org/wiki/Dev-Jam_2013/Chrome_Plugin_for_OpenNMS http://www.opennms.org/wiki/Dev-Jam_2013/Configuration_Bundling_and_Spliting OpenNMS Dev-Jam: http://www.opennms.org/wiki/Dev-Jam_2013 Projects: http://www.opennms.org/wiki/Dev-Jam_2013/Chrome_Plugin_for_OpenNMS http://www.opennms.org/wiki/Dev-Jam_2013/Configuration_Bundling_and_Spliting
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ERA Environmental Management Solutions
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Canada
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Environmental Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Program Analyst
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May 2010 - Aug 2010
Developed of the company website using Microsoft Expression (HTML/CSS), PHP, Javascript and JQuery. Developed of the company website using Microsoft Expression (HTML/CSS), PHP, Javascript and JQuery.
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BlackBerry
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Canada
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Automation Test Engineer
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May 2009 - Aug 2009
Develop automated tests based on Selenium RC, Java and Perl. Develop automated tests based on Selenium RC, Java and Perl.
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Education
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2008 - 2012
McGill University
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
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