Naveed Ahmed

Lead DevOps Engineer · Senior Engineer II

📍 Karachi, Pakistan 🌐 naveedkumbhar.com 💼 linkedin.com/in/naveedkumbhar 🐙 github.com/naveedkumbhar ✍️ blog.naveedkumbhar.com

DevOps engineer with 10+ years of experience designing, building, and operating cloud-native infrastructure at scale. 2x AWS Certified (Solutions Architect + SysOps Administrator), RHCSA. Specialising in Kubernetes, AWS, CI/CD automation, and infrastructure as code. Currently building AI agents and automation pipelines to augment DevOps workflows.

Currently employed @ DigitalOcean · Remote

Currently Working On

AI Agents · Automation · MCP · Trading Analysis

Actively building AI agents that interface with real infrastructure using Model Context Protocol (MCP) and LLM tool-use. Exploring autonomous DevOps pipelines, intelligent alerting, and AI-powered smart analysis for financial markets. Combining 10+ years of infrastructure expertise with modern AI tooling to build systems that are more self-healing and self-aware.

AI Agents MCP LLM Tool Use Autonomous Pipelines AI Alerting Trading Automation

Experience

DigitalOcean

Sep 2022 — Present · Remote

Lead DevOps Engineer — Senior Engineer II

Spearhead design, implementation, and management of Kubernetes clusters on GKE, ensuring seamless deployment and scaling of containerised applications.
Architected and maintained highly available, fault-tolerant infrastructure with Auto Scaling, ELB, and multi-AZ configurations.
Implemented full CI/CD pipelines reducing deployment time by 70%.
Led containerisation of monolithic applications into Docker/Kubernetes microservices.
Established disaster recovery plans and runbooks; achieved RTO < 1 hour on critical systems.

Cloudways

Jan 2022 — Aug 2022 · Malta · Remote

Lead DevOps Engineer

Led DevOps engineering for Cloudways' managed cloud hosting platform serving thousands of hosted applications.
Automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration management across multiple cloud providers.
Improved platform reliability and deployment workflows significantly reducing manual intervention.

Gaditek

Jul 2016 — Aug 2022 · 6 yrs · Karachi

Lead DevOps Engineer → DevOps Engineer → Cloud/System Admin

Grew from Cloud/System Admin to Lead DevOps Engineer over 6 years through consistent delivery and technical leadership.
Explored and implemented CI/CD tools including Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and GitLab CI across the organisation.
Built and owned production operations for KillPing — deployments, automation, and performance tuning.
Migrated complex web applications from Rackspace and dedicated servers to AWS with zero downtime.
Migrated production databases to AWS RDS using AWS Database Migration Service (DMS).
Designed scalable infrastructure for Mobivists and eQuiz on AWS.

NexDegree

Apr 2016 — Jun 2016 · Pakistan

Infrastructure Engineer

Worked with core AWS services: CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, SES, EC2, S3, CloudFront, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, Auto Scaling, ELB, VPC, RDS, IAM, ElastiCache, Route 53.
Designed and deployed cloud-native infrastructure for client projects.

PredictifyMe

Jun 2015 — Apr 2016 · Karachi

Deployment Engineer — AWS

Designed and deployed dynamically scalable, highly available, fault-tolerant applications on AWS.
Managed EC2 instances, VPCs, security groups, IAM roles, and S3 storage for production workloads.

Technical Skills

Cloud

AWS Google Cloud DigitalOcean Rackspace

Containers

Kubernetes Docker GKE Helm ArgoCD

IaC

Terraform Ansible CloudFormation Pulumi

CI/CD

GitHub Actions Jenkins GitLab CI CircleCI

Observability

New Relic Nagios PRTG CloudWatch Grafana

AI / Agents

AI Agents MCP LangChain OpenAI API RAG

OS / Systems

Linux Ubuntu RHEL/CentOS Bash Python

Certifications

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AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Amazon Web Services · Issued Jul 2017

Credential ID: V2MQH54CKJR11FK6

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AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate

Amazon Web Services · Issued Apr 2018

Credential ID: 9B1VXPH1JE14133L

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Red Hat Certified System Administrator

Red Hat · RHCSA

📚

Red Hat Certified Engineer Training

OpenED Sri Lanka · RHCE

GitHub

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Personal

github.com/naveedkumbhar

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Professional

github.com/naveedcloudways

Connect

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