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Naveed Ahmed
Lead DevOps Engineer — Senior Engineer II @ DigitalOcean
✉️ naveed_kumbhar@hotmail.com 💼 linkedin/naveedkumbhar 🐙 github/naveedkumbhar 📍 Pakistan · Remote
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// Professional Summary

Senior DevOps & Cloud Engineer with 10+ years of experience designing, automating, and operating resilient cloud infrastructure. Currently leading Kubernetes cluster management and cloud-native architecture at DigitalOcean. Expert in AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD pipelines. Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) and AWS Certified Solutions Architect.

// Work Experience
Lead DevOps Engineer — Senior Engineer II
DigitalOcean
Sep 2022 — Present · Remote
  • Spearhead design, implementation, and management of Kubernetes clusters (GKE), ensuring seamless deployment and scaling of containerized applications.
  • Architect and maintain highly available, fault-tolerant infrastructure across multi-cloud environments.
  • Implement and own CI/CD pipelines, reducing deployment times and increasing release frequency.
  • Lead disaster recovery planning; achieved RTO < 1 hour on critical production systems.
Lead DevOps Engineer
Cloudways
Jan 2022 — Aug 2022 · Malta · Remote
  • Led DevOps engineering for Cloudways' managed cloud hosting platform (Malta-based, remote).
  • Automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration management across multiple cloud providers.
Lead DevOps Engineer → DevOps Engineer → Cloud/System Admin
Gaditek
Jul 2016 — Aug 2022 · 6 yrs · Karachi
  • Progressed from Cloud/System Admin to Lead DevOps Engineer over 6 years.
  • Implemented CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) across the organisation.
  • Owned platform operations for KillPing — build, deployments, automation, performance tuning.
  • Migrated production databases from dedicated to AWS RDS via AWS DMS with zero downtime.
  • Designed scalable AWS infrastructure for Mobivists, eQuiz, and Smallseotools.com.
Infrastructure Engineer
NexDegree
Apr 2016 — Jun 2016 · Pakistan
  • Worked with core AWS services: EC2, S3, CloudFront, CloudFormation, CodePipeline, RDS, ElastiCache, Route 53, IAM.
Deployment Engineer — AWS
PredictifyMe
Jun 2015 — Apr 2016 · Karachi
  • Designed and deployed scalable, highly available, fault-tolerant applications on AWS.
// Skills
Cloud Platforms
AWSGCP / GKEDigitalOceanRackspace
IaC & Automation
TerraformAnsibleCloudFormationBash
Containers & Orchestration
KubernetesDockerHelmECS
CI/CD
JenkinsGitHub ActionsGitLab CI
Monitoring
New RelicNagiosGrafanaCloudWatch
Databases & Systems
MySQLLinuxVMwareRDS
// Certifications
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AWS Solutions Architect – Associate
Amazon Web Services
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Red Hat Certified System Administrator
Red Hat
Cert No: 150-207-785
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Red Hat Certified Engineer Training
OpenED Sri Lanka
// Education
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Bachelor of Science — Computer Science (BSCS)
University of Sindh
Graduated · Computer Science