Waqar Zaidi
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Volkswagen Infotainment GmbH
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Germany
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Embedded Software Products
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400 - 500 Employee
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Sr. DevOps Engineer
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Nov 2021 - Present
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Panasonic Automotive Systems Europe GmbH
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Germany
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Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
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100 - 200 Employee
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Principal Software Configuration Engineer(extern)
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Jul 2018 - Oct 2021
Neumünster Area, Germany • Build and release management activities support for new and legacy projects. • Creation of Jenkins pipelines for CI/CD. • Administration and support for organization tools like Jenkins, JIRA, GIT lab, SVN, IBM Doors, Tasktop, Mathworks Polyspace, VMware. • Implementation and maintenance of Docker Containers, PClint, Doxygen in GNUmake framework. • Writing and updating of scripts for automation. • Participation in ASPICE assessment as SUP. 08 process owner. • Creation and… Show more • Build and release management activities support for new and legacy projects. • Creation of Jenkins pipelines for CI/CD. • Administration and support for organization tools like Jenkins, JIRA, GIT lab, SVN, IBM Doors, Tasktop, Mathworks Polyspace, VMware. • Implementation and maintenance of Docker Containers, PClint, Doxygen in GNUmake framework. • Writing and updating of scripts for automation. • Participation in ASPICE assessment as SUP. 08 process owner. • Creation and maintenance of CM plans. • Creation of Baseline in SVN and IBM DOORs. Show less
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emaratech
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United Arab Emirates
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Information Technology & Services
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300 - 400 Employee
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DevOps Engineer - Principal DevOps Engineer
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Nov 2012 - Jun 2018
Dubai • Environment provisioning in Oracle Cloud based environment. • Container implementation for application and database to fast track Agile team sprints. • Docker registry implementation to support in-house built docker images. • Involved in Capacity Planning considering future requirements. • Configuration of automation test suit, which publishes reports on confluence after execution. • Execution of Performance Test on every planned release. • Evaluating the results of… Show more • Environment provisioning in Oracle Cloud based environment. • Container implementation for application and database to fast track Agile team sprints. • Docker registry implementation to support in-house built docker images. • Involved in Capacity Planning considering future requirements. • Configuration of automation test suit, which publishes reports on confluence after execution. • Execution of Performance Test on every planned release. • Evaluating the results of performance test for deployment approval on production. • Leading a team of 10 resources to smoothly run DevOps department. • Participation in Design Review Board meeting to evaluate new initiatives in company. • Sharing of monthly reports with management to track progress and ROI. • Enforcement of DevOps defined process for smooth delivery. • Implementation of Canary Releases to reduce the risk of introducing a new software version in production. • Implementation of “SonarQube” for static code analysis. • Implementation and administration of “Upsource” , a Code review tool . • Implementation of “Nexus” , “Artifactory” for binaries and dependency management. • Implementation of “DBmaintain” and ”Liquibase” tool for database automated deployments.
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DevOps Engineer - Principal DevOps Engineer
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Nov 2012 - Jun 2018
Dubai, United Arab Emirates Continued..... • Facilitate and conduct periodic synchronization meetings between agile teams and operations. • Conducting release planning meeting, review meeting, scrum of scrum meeting to improve synchronization between agile teams. • Escalate impediments, manage risk, help ensure value delivery, and help drive relentless improvement. • Encourage collaboration between teams using Scrum of Scrum meeting. • Listen and support teams in problem identification and… Show more Continued..... • Facilitate and conduct periodic synchronization meetings between agile teams and operations. • Conducting release planning meeting, review meeting, scrum of scrum meeting to improve synchronization between agile teams. • Escalate impediments, manage risk, help ensure value delivery, and help drive relentless improvement. • Encourage collaboration between teams using Scrum of Scrum meeting. • Listen and support teams in problem identification and decision-making. • Administrating JIRA and JIRA Service desk on JIRA cloud. • Definition, implementation and maintenance of Kanban Boards. • Defining programs, workflows, EPIC, Teams, Roles, Dashboards. • Writing stories for DevOps Team including daily task and new initiatives • Implementation of GIT source control to support parallel development and ease of merging • Migration of Source Code from SVN to GIT.
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i2c Inc.
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United States
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Sr. SCM Engineer - Associate Manager SCM
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Jul 2009 - Nov 2012
Lahore • Worked on Unix based system. • Production Deployments on 2 data centers. • Execution of Database scripts and troubleshooting if required. • Deployments of Network Related changes on Firewall, Routers, Switches. • Configuration of Apache Tomcat/ Jboss on production servers in load balance mode. • Build automation using ant scripting, Maven Scripts in Team City • Shell scripting for Automation. • Configuration of SVN and assignment of access rights to the… Show more • Worked on Unix based system. • Production Deployments on 2 data centers. • Execution of Database scripts and troubleshooting if required. • Deployments of Network Related changes on Firewall, Routers, Switches. • Configuration of Apache Tomcat/ Jboss on production servers in load balance mode. • Build automation using ant scripting, Maven Scripts in Team City • Shell scripting for Automation. • Configuration of SVN and assignment of access rights to the user • Maintaining/monitoring of Production servers space and log rotation. • Virtual Hosting Using Apache 2.2.22 • BIG-IP F5 load balancing • Kemp Load balancing • Apache tomcat performance tuning. • Utilization of JVM parameters according to application requirements • Providing support to network team in Server Patching by maintaining applications redundancy • Providing support in DB Related activities as well as well in infrastructure maintenance. • Configuration of Open Source Tool using PHP and MYSQL (Splunk, Moodle,Alresco). • Maintaining 24/7 support with available team. • Planning of Release activities. • Vulnerabilities fixes on production servers related to security scan this includes vulnerability of web-servers and application servers. Show less
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NETSOL Technologies Inc.
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Assoc. SCM Engineer - Sr. SCM Engineer
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Mar 2005 - Jun 2009
• Participation in project kick off meetings as an SCM personal. • SCM Planning (CM plan creation) • Release Deployments. • Baselining of source code and CI's • FTP server administration. • VSS access Rights administration. • VSS Administration including Archiving backups analyzing etc. • Configuration Status Accounting reports preparation and Submission to higher management. • Conducting Audits (Physical Configurational Audits) • Participated in CMMI level 5… Show more • Participation in project kick off meetings as an SCM personal. • SCM Planning (CM plan creation) • Release Deployments. • Baselining of source code and CI's • FTP server administration. • VSS access Rights administration. • VSS Administration including Archiving backups analyzing etc. • Configuration Status Accounting reports preparation and Submission to higher management. • Conducting Audits (Physical Configurational Audits) • Participated in CMMI level 5 appraisal. • Preparation of Shipment Packages including Readme Release notes. • Peer Reviews of SCM artifacts (CM Plan, Configuration Reports) • Process review and updation of SCM. • Providing support to QA and DEV team on ongoing project activities • SCM Trainer for NTI (Netsol Training Institute) • R&D on different tools TFS , VSS, Clear Case. • Auditee from SCM team for Internal Audits (SQA, QE) Show less
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Education
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The University of Lahore
BS(Hons), Computer Science -
Shahwar Model High School