Umar Murtaza

Umar Murtaza Pakistan --https:/linkedin.com/in/umurtaza https://github.com/umarmurtaza With extensive experience spanning across the innovative realms of IT and cloud computing, I have developed a profound expertise in driving organizational success through the strategic implementation and management of cutting-edge technologies. I am a Certified Solutions Architect in both Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS), specializing in navigating the multifaceted cloud ecosystems to propel businesses towards operational excellence. 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 ✓ 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱 𝗠𝗶𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 & 𝗗𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁: Leveraged the advanced capabilities of AWS, GCP, and various PaaS services to facilitate seamless migration and deployment of applications, ensuring optimal performance, security, and scalability. ✓ 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗢𝗽𝘀 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴: Implemented robust CI/CD pipelines, automated workflows, and optimized configurations to accelerate development cycles, enhance productivity, and reduce time-to-market. ✓ 𝗞𝘂𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 & 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁: Orchestrated containerized applications with Kubernetes, optimizing resource utilization, scalability, and reliability of diverse application ecosystems. Setup ML workloads on GKE with GPUs provisioned virtual machines for training and serving. ✓ 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗲 (𝗜𝗮𝗖) 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗧𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗮𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺: Expert in automating the provisioning and management of infrastructure on AWS and GCP through Terraform, implementing code-driven approaches to ensure the consistent, reproducible, and scalable deployment of cloud resources. Leveraged modular and maintainable Terraform scripts to encapsulate infrastructure configurations, enabling rapid adaptations to evolving business and technology requirements. By integrating Terraform with CI/CD pipelines, I’ve optimized infrastructure updates and enhanced overall deployment strategies, ensuring seamless alignment between development and operations. ✓ 𝗜𝗧 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁: Possess rich heritage in managing on-premises to data center transitions, maintaining a keen focus on infrastructure resilience, availability, and efficiency. Certificates CLOUD CERTIFICATES Google Professional Cloud Architect by Google JAN 2022 - JAN 2024 Candidate ID: 905399b-ac-b6b8-639f0dd29b6f .. Certification ID: DoSr2J Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect Associate by AWS JAN 2020 - JAN 2023 Credential ID BGHTHWT1PMBQ1KGS Skills ● ● ● ● ● Google Professional Cloud Architect AWS Cloud Architect Associate Kubernetes DevOps Terraform ● ● ● ● Linux System Administration Shell Scripting Python Microservices/Dockerization Experience Cloud Architecture & DevOps Consultant / DreamAI, Islamabad JUNE 2018 – PRESENT ● Cloud Migrations ● DevOps & Kubernetes ● Deployment Automations Member / AI Accelerator Institute MAY 2023 – PRESENT ● Connecting and empowering passionate AI infrastructure innovators Cloud Architect & DevOps Consultant / Zazmic Inc NOVEMBER 2021 – PRESENT Cloud Architect & DevOps Consultant / Trillo Inc JUNE 2020 – PRESENT Cloud Architect & DevOps Consultant / ProntoAI Inc MAY 2020 – MARCH 2023 AWS Community Builder / Amazon Web Services (AWS) MAY 2021 – MAY 2023 ● Building AWS Community in Local Chapters ● Meetups, trainings and Live Sessions Senior DevOps Engineer / Zigron, Islamabad JULY 2018 – FEB 2021 ● 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 Route 53, few to mention. ● For CI/CD Jenkins is configures ● For alerts; Sensu and Librato configured with Slack and Twilio. Course Developer/Instructor / Packt Publishing, UK MAY 2018 – JULY 2018 ● Designed and recorded video course on "Professional DevOps [Video]" DevOps Consultant / GridBricks, Islamabad MARCH 2017 – DECEMBER 2018 ● Designed CI/CD pipeline on Jenkins for a European Telco Company 2 ● Setup automated deployments on docker containers ● Setup Virtual Cloud, networking, zoning on different regions for fault tolerance on Oracle Cloud. Principal System Administrator - Manager Systems / Streaming Network, Islamabad APRIL 2007 – JULY 2018 Network Consultant / LMKR, Islamabad APRIL 2006 – APRIL 2007 UNIX Consultant / Goldman Sachs Inc, NY, USA MAY 2000 – SEPT 2005 UNIX Consultant / DSET Corp, TX, USA APRIL 2000 – AUGUST 2000 System Administrator / Vroom Technologies, Islamabad JAN 1998 – JAN 2000 System Administrator / CresSoft (Pvt) Ltd, Islamabad JAN 1997 – JAN 1998 Education MSc Information Technology / University of Maryland, USA 2007 BSc Electrical Engineering / UET, Lahore 1986 - 1991 Majors: Electronics & Communications Other Certificates & Courses DEVOPS CERTIFICATES/COURSES FEB 2017: FEB 2017: FEB 2017: FEB 2017: APR 2017: FEB 2017: FEB 2017: FEB 2017: FEB 2017: DevOps Essentials by Linux Academy Docker Deep Dive by Linux Academy Using Ansible for CM and Deployments by Linux Academy Jenkins and Build Automation by Linux Academy Container Clusters with Kubernetes by Linux Academy Learning Vagrant by Linux Academy Jenkins Quick Start by Linux Academy Docker Quick Start by Linux Academy Ansible Quick Start by Linux Academy 3 MACHINE LEARNING CERTIFICATES/COURSES Machine Learning with TensorFlow on Google Cloud Platform Specialization by Coursera O 2018: How Google does Machine Learning by Coursera O 2018: Art and Science of Machine Learning by Coursera O 2018: Feature Engineering by Coursera O 2018: Intro to TensorFlow by Coursera O 2018: Launching into Machine Learning by Coursera OCT 2018: CT CT CT CT CT DATA SCIENCE CERTIFICATES YEAR 2018: Data Scientist with Python by Data Camp UNIX SYSTEMS CERTIFICATES MARCH 2000 MAR 2000: Sun Certified System Administrator by Sun Microsystems License TE322-1 4