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Khawalid Mehmood

DevOps Engineer | Cloud & Infrastructure Automation

🚀 About Me

DevOps Engineer with hands-on production experience designing scalable, automated, and observable cloud infrastructure.

Currently working at NayaPay, where I build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, monitoring systems, infrastructure automation workflows, and secure cloud environments.

My expertise centers around:

  • Cloud Infrastructure (AWS | Azure Exposure)
  • CI/CD Automation
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • Containerization & Kubernetes
  • Monitoring & Observability
  • Secure Backup & Production Troubleshooting

I focus on building systems that are:

Reliable • Scalable • Secure • Automated

💼 Professional Experience

DevOps Engineer — NayaPay

  • Architected a production-grade ELK Stack cluster for centralized observability and financial transaction monitoring.
  • Implemented real-time alerting using ElastAlert, preventing critical outages.
  • Improved deployment efficiency by 30% through optimized CI/CD pipelines.
  • Automated infrastructure lifecycle management using Foreman & Ansible.
  • Secured Oracle & MongoDB backups using AGE encryption + Vault.
  • Troubleshot DNS, TLS, container image pull failures, and network-related production issues.

🧠 Technical Stack

Cloud Platforms

AWS (EC2, RDS, ElastiCache, Elastic Beanstalk, Route 53, CloudFront, IAM, Auto Scaling)
Microsoft Azure (DevOps & Cloud Fundamentals Exposure)

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform • Ansible • Vagrant

CI/CD & Automation

Jenkins • GitHub Actions • Git

Containers & Orchestration

Docker • Docker Compose • Kubernetes (kOps)

Monitoring & Observability

ELK Stack • Prometheus • Grafana

Networking & Security

VPC • Load Balancers • DNS • TLS • IAM • Backup Encryption

Scripting

Bash • Python • Go

📂 DevOps Portfolio

Project Overview Tech Stack
vProfile – Cloud Re-Architecture End-to-end DevOps lifecycle transforming VM-based deployment into AWS cloud-native infrastructure with full CI/CD automation. AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Docker
KubeVProApp Production-style Kubernetes deployment on AWS using kOps, NGINX Ingress, and ALB integration. Kubernetes, AWS, kOps, Docker
eMart – Microservices Containerization Containerized multi-service e-commerce platform with API gateway routing. Docker, Docker Compose, Nginx
Monitoring Stack Designed production-style monitoring system with centralized logging and real-time alerting. ELK, Prometheus, Grafana

🤝 Connect

Email: khawalid.enter@gmail.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/khawalidmehmood
GitHub: https://github.com/Khawalid

Building infrastructure that stays up.

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  1. DevOps-Labs DevOps-Labs Public

    A collection of foundational DevOps hands-on labs focused on Git, Azure Cloud fundamentals, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform.

  2. Single-Click-Jenkins-Pipeline-Deployment Single-Click-Jenkins-Pipeline-Deployment Public

    Web server provisioned on Azure using Terraform and configured using Ansible all of this is executed through jenkins pipeline.

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  3. Docker-Assignment Docker-Assignment Public

    Containerized multi-service application using Docker and Docker Compose with network and volume configuration.

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  4. vprokubeapp vprokubeapp Public

    Production-style Kubernetes deployment of a multi-tier application using kOps, NGINX Ingress, and AWS ALB integration.

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  5. Titan-Monitoring-Observality-Stack Titan-Monitoring-Observality-Stack Public

    Production-style monitoring and observability stack using Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki for centralized logging for infrastructure and application metrics.

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  6. Vprofile-App-AWS-Rearchitecture Vprofile-App-AWS-Rearchitecture Public

    Re-engineered the vProfile Java application from a lift-and-shift migration to a cloud-native AWS architecture, replacing self-managed components with fully managed services (Elastic Beanstalk, RDS…

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