Umar Murtaza

Umar Murtaza

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ABOUT ME
GCP & AWS Certified Architect; DevOps Engr; Kubernetes
GCP & AWS Certified Architect; DevOps Engr; Kubernetes

Cloud Architect (AWS, GCP) | Kubernetes | DevOps | AI, ML Enthusiast

More than 27 years of experience in Linux/UNIX Systems from small scale infrastructure to large data centers. Supporting development teams with their infrastructure requirements and management. As Google and AWS Certified Solutions Architect, has designed and developed DevOps infrastructure on cloud (GCP and AWS). Hands-on in setting up scalable infrastructure, automation, monitoring and continuous integration and deployment pipelines. Replicated the complete production infrastructure using Terraform/Scripting. Did a number of cloud migrations for Web Applications, ML and Data Engineering projects to cloud.

MS in Information Technology from University of Maryland, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from UET Lahore Pakistan.

Skills:

  • Kubernetes
  • Cloud Architect (GCP and AWS)
  • DevOps
  • Terraform (GCP and AWS)
  • Linux/UNIX System Administration
  • Bash Scripting
  • Jenkins
  • Docker/MicroServices
  • Vagrant
  • Python (mainly for) DevOps and for Data Science and Machine Learning

Professional Certifications

  • Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect
  • Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect Associate

Some Recent Projects and Technologies

  • Deployment and Maintenance of GKE Clusters in Development, Staging and Production Environments
  • Scripting deployment of a complete Project with GKE in GCP
  • Scripting/Terraforming deployment of a complete infrastructure in AWS
  • Terraforming App Engine, Cloud SQL, MongoDB, VMs and MemoryStore in GCP
  • Migration to Google Cloud Platform, with web application, databases and storage
  • Setting up number of GKE clusters for clients for online services
  • Setup of multiple projects for DICOM services for a US client
  • Setup of ML Based services infrastructure using GKE (with GPUs) and VMs
Arabic, Hindi, English
Karachi (+05:00)
Joined September 2017
EXPERTISE
5 years experience | 3 endorsements
5 years experience

REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS

5.0
(22 reviews)
Bryant Mejia
Bryant Mejia
September 2023
Umar is helpful and knowledgeable with cloud platform operations.
Kevin Yan
Kevin Yan
November 2022
not responsive after payment did not help
Early Paddington
Early Paddington
October 2022
The session was delivered with expertise.He was patient and explained thoroughly with knowledgeable experience
Matthew Holt
Matthew Holt
March 2021
Umar is great. Vry pleasant personality, great communication skills and helped me resolve my issue quickly and with short notice. Thank you Umar!
Roger Celedonio
Roger Celedonio
March 2021
Very helpful
Mohamed-Abdelrhman
Mohamed-Abdelrhman
February 2021
Very talented and well respected and trustworthy DevOps engineer
Andreas Brynestad
Andreas Brynestad
November 2017
Friendly, fast to respond, quickly solved the problem. Seems to know his stuff very well. I would reach out to him again for help.
Steven Sosa
Steven Sosa
October 2017
Awesome help! I can now take it from here! Will definitely be coming back to him for future references!
Dwayne Melendez
Dwayne Melendez
October 2017
Umar is a helpful and intelligent individual. He was willing to help me solve my solution, even when we were not in a paid session. I truly appreciate his help, and am sure he can assist others in an excellent capacity.
SOCIAL PRESENCE
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EMPLOYMENTS
Co-Founder, Cloud Architect
DreamAI
2018-06-01-Present
Working with the following Clients: - Trillo Inc - Pronto AI - Cloutel
Working with the following Clients: - Trillo Inc - Pronto AI - Cloutel
Bash
Docker
Google Cloud Platform
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Bash
Docker
Google Cloud Platform
Kubernetes
Terraform
AWS
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Sr. DevOps Engineer
Zigron Inc
2018-07-01-2021-02-01
- Heading a team of DevOps Engineers - Supporting and Managing an IoT based home security product on AWS Cloud. - Complete Infrastructure...
- Heading a team of DevOps Engineers - Supporting and Managing an IoT based home security product on AWS Cloud. - Complete Infrastructure is on AWS with services: EC2, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, Elastic Search, CloudWatch, ECS/ECR, Lambda, AWS AutoScaling, Load Balancers and Route53, few to mention. - For CI/CD Jenkins is configures - For alerts; Sensu and Librato configured with Slack and Twilio.
Amazon EC2
Jenkins
Amazon S3
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Amazon EC2
Jenkins
Amazon S3
Amazon RDS
AWS Lambda
Amazon ECS
Solution Architecture
Auto scaling
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Manager Systems (Pr. Systems Engineer)
Steaming Networks
2007-04-01-2018-07-01
Heading System/Network Administration & Web Departments. Responsible for maintaining the integrity/security of UNIX/Windows based server...
Heading System/Network Administration & Web Departments. Responsible for maintaining the integrity/security of UNIX/Windows based servers & users Windows/UNIX based workstations. Keep infrastructure current with changing technologies. Responsible for emergency response as needed to correct system failures. Lead Responsibilities: • Manage system, network & web development teams for day-to-day activities, current & future projects. • Closely working with development teams, provide support, guidance & resources on projects to accomplish their targets. • Attend regular meetings with the CEO, Center Manager & Technical Staff. Contributed in agenda items, business ideas & solutions. Services/Support: • Support UNIX/Windows based servers & workstations. Maintain comapny-wide email system, using sendmail with SpamAssassin/ClamAV integrated. • Internet connectivity through multiple DSLs with failover/loadbalancing support. Proxy Caching & firewall through IPTABLES. • Windows domain with two additional domain controllers. • CVS/git on Solaris/Linux for version control & Bugzilla on RedHat/Fedora Linux • Software RAID 1 on critical UNIX Servers & services like DNS, NFS, DHCP, Samba, Sendmail, Web, & FTP over Solaris & Linux. • Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition, windows updates using MS Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) • Research new technologies & present recommendations on major hardware & software purchases. Documentation/Training: • Documented products user manuals & quick guides • Educate all staff on password & network security, document log all changes to system software & configurations, along with hardware inventory. Online Store: Setup/Maintain an E-commerce Solution. An online store was setup (store.irecord.com), integrated with USAePay for payments, UPS integrated with E-Commerce for shipment of the products. Maintaining online store for smooth operation/product shipment, also maintaining webhosting/e-mail services for irecord.com domain.
Python
Linux System Administration
DevOps
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Python
Linux System Administration
DevOps
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PROJECTS
Data Center Migration
2017
Linux
Solaris
Red Hat
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Linux
Solaris
Red Hat
san
Data center
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Linux Farmhouse
2017
Linux
Red Hat
Remote installation
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Linux
Red Hat
Remote installation
Bulk unattended installation
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