Sameel Ahamed — Lead DevOps Engineer

01 · about

Ten years of making infrastructure invisible.

I'm a proactive, achievement-oriented DevOps engineer with over 11 years of experience across automation, cloud architecture, and infrastructure management. My work centers on adopting DevOps culture end-to-end — Continuous Delivery with containers, infrastructure as code, and Agile/Scrum practices that actually stick.

I build push-button deployments across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, and I'm equally comfortable in the SDLC weeds as I am orchestrating multi-account cloud governance. Tools like Jenkins, Terraform, and CloudFormation are where I live — ensuring every release ships clean, auditable, and on time.

Currently seeking DevOps Manager / Architect roles where cloud platform management and automation directly power real-world infrastructure at scale.

My next chapter is aimed at AIOps and Agentic AI — applying the same infrastructure discipline to build self-operating, conversational infrastructure platforms, in the spirit of Claude.ai for DevOps itself.

11+

YEARS IN DEVOPS & SRE

30%

INFRA COST REDUCTION

75%

FASTER DEPLOYMENTS

CLOUDS MASTERED (AWS/AZURE/GCP)

02 · experience

The deployment history.

Every role, laid out like a release pipeline — because that's how I actually think about a career: staged, versioned, and always shipping.

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Currently deploying

Lead DevOps Engineer

Jan 2022 — Present

FreshToHome Dubai, UAE · Hybrid

Lead DevOps & SRE functions for a distributed cloud platform, managing and mentoring a team of 5.
Defined the enterprise-wide CI/CD roadmap and GitOps deployment model using ArgoCD for controlled, auditable releases.
Architected high-availability Kubernetes (EKS) clusters supporting mission-critical production workloads, with autoscaling and HPA tuned for peak traffic.
Built centralized observability (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog) with SLIs/SLOs that actually get used during incidents.

Established SRE practices — incident response playbooks, postmortem culture, SLA alignment.
Enforced RBAC, network policies, and pod security standards across multi-tenant workloads.
Administered core AWS services: IAM, VPC, Route53, EC2, RDS, Redshift, S3, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CloudWatch.
Ran multi-account AWS governance with cost optimisation initiatives that cut spend while improving scalability.
Led major incident bridges and root cause analysis for production events.

✓

Shipped

Senior DevOps Engineer

Mar 2021 — Jan 2022

BYJU'S Bengaluru, India · Hybrid

Increased deployment frequency by 40% by leading a CI/CD transformation for web and mobile platforms on GitHub Actions.
Managed AWS Organizations structure — OUs, SCPs, account governance.
Spearheaded migration of legacy applications to AWS, cutting operational overhead while improving scalability.
Introduced APM tooling (Datadog, Sentry, App Signal) to sharpen observability.

✓

Shipped

Senior DevOps Engineer

Sep 2020 — Feb 2021

Xactly Corp India

Global point of contact for deployment and performance across complex multi-tier environments with a large user base.
Designed and built applications across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
Implemented disaster recovery architecture ensuring business continuity and data integrity.

Built a DevOps pipeline on Jenkins, GitHub, and the AWS CI/CD toolset for smooth, developer-friendly workflows.
Set up full CI/CD pipelines with rigorous testing before production deployment.
Deployed JAR and WAR applications to Apache Tomcat via Jenkins auto-deployment.

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Shipped

DevOps Engineer

Jun 2016 — Sep 2020

Xactly Corp Bengaluru

Built enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and the AWS toolchain, improving deployment efficiency by 75%.
Operated cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Azure for multi-tier production systems.
Focused on proactive monitoring and reliability across a large global user base.

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Shipped

Automation Engineer

Jun 2015 — Jun 2016

Xactly Corp Greater Bengaluru Area

Started the DevOps journey building automation tooling and early CI workflows.
Laid the groundwork in proactive monitoring and infrastructure reliability practices.

04 · endorsements

Approved by the people I've shipped with.

All 13 recommendations from LinkedIn — colleagues, managers, and architects I've worked alongside.

Approved

"Sameel is a security expert who is always up to date on latest technologies and trends. He brings exceptional technical skills in identity and data protection, and manages risk with a proactive approach to identifying and resolving security incidents. His curiosity to learn and thought leadership in designing cloud security strategies make him an invaluable asset."

Sarat Guttikonda

Principal Solutions Architect, AWS

Approved

"Had the privilege to manage this great mind who constantly inspires others with his work and surprises me with his innovation. He transitioned from QE to DevOps seamlessly, added great automation coverage, and I can count on him for complex, challenging work without hesitation. Highly reliable during difficult times."

Balakrishna Madduri

Senior Director of Engineering, Salesforce · former manager

Approved

"I worked alongside Sameel at Byjus, where he contributed his expertise from the DevOps side. What struck me most was his problem-solving ability — an impressive command of the DevOps landscape and always an innovative solution at hand. His willingness to explore open-source tooling for automation was genuinely impressive."

Jo Thomas

Salesforce Architect · 17x Certified

Approved

"I had the pleasure of managing and working with Sameel for several years. He has excellent technical expertise in DevOps and SRE, and was a great team player and torchbearer for several key initiatives. His problem-solving and sense of ownership set him apart and make him shine in any group."

Aashish Kumar

Senior Manager, Quality Engineering, Xactly Corp · former manager

Approved

"I worked with Sameel for almost 6 years and watched him grow from QE to DevOps owner at Xactly. I'm thrilled by his passion for learning and applying new things at work — his flexibility and 'anytime' attitude is second to none. A great asset to any company, in any role."

Siva Kumar Rachaputi

Engineering Leader — Data & Analytics

Approved

"Sameel joined us as an intern and, with his dedication and talent, soon became a subject matter expert in DevOps engineering. Extremely talented, hard-working, and responsible — truly an asset for any organization. I'd be lucky to work with him again."

Gaurav Pandey

Senior Director of Engineering, Xactly Corp

Approved

"I've known Sameel for the past 5 years. He's one of the most versatile DevOps engineers — sharp and quick in troubleshooting, patient, and thoughtful before starting anything. A highly dependable and reliable person for any engineering team."

Saravanabavagugan Vengadasundaram

Senior Technical Architect, Lendingkart

Approved

"It's been a great working experience with Sameel. He's been very helpful in managing our infra on AWS and making sure we access it securely — always with the same passion to solve our issues, even when we needed things done on priority."

Harshad Hegde

Data Engineering

Approved

"Analyses issues with patience and solves them efficiently. Scrutinizes security aspects carefully. Shows good interest and is dedicated to the work he does."

Samrakshini R S

Data Engineer, Apple

Approved

"Great team player with superb DevOps skills and dedication towards the tasks assigned. Happy to recommend."

Vivek Kumar

DevOps | SRE | Cloud | Platform Engineer · former manager

Approved

"I had the pleasure of working with Sameel for almost two years. He's a quick learner, efficient, and a good team player. In those two years he never missed a deadline. I'd love to work with him again."

Harinakshi C A

CoE Manager · AI Platform Architect

Approved

"Sameel is an extremely focused and productive contributor for our QA team. His efficiency and devotion to his duties has always been impressive. Whenever I contact him for assistance, I get a prompt response and a great result."

Dave Urrutia

Sr. Manager of Information Technology, Varo Bank

Approved

"Sameel is a quick learner and a smart worker. I hired him as an intern and he did an exceptional job — he worked hard, enhanced his skills on time, and was a great team player and a great asset to any team."

Dinakar Sathyamoorthy

Solutions Architect · former manager

Sameel Ahameddeploys infrastructure that doesn't page you at 3am.

Ten years of making infrastructure invisible.

The deployment history.

The tools in the toolchain.

Approved by the people I've shipped with.

Education & languages.