Mohd Meesam
Mohali
Summary
Cloud | DevOps | Site Reliability Engineer | Platform Engineering professional with 10 years of strong experience building, scaling, and operating highly available distributed systems on AWS and Azure (12+ years of overall professional experience). Proven expertise in Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, Web3, and observability. Strong focus on reliability engineering, incident management, and production systems, consistently improving uptime (99.95%+), reducing MTTR, and optimizing cloud costs. Experienced in defining SLIs/SLOs, managing on-call rotations, leading incident response, and driving postmortem culture for large-scale production environments.
Overview
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Certification
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
DevOps Contractor
DevOps Contractor
04.2021 - Current
- MANAGED AWS/AZURE INFRASTRUCTURE, ACHIEVING 99.95%+ UPTIME AND REDUCING COSTS BY 28%.
- AUTOMATED INFRASTRUCTURE WITH TERRAFORM, PULUMI & ANSIBLE, REDUCING PROVISIONING TIME BY 40%.
- MANAGED 50+ NODE PRODUCTION EKS/KUBERNETES CLUSTERS WITH HIGH AVAILABILITY AND SCALABILITY.
- BUILT CI/CD AND GITOPS PIPELINES USING GITHUB ACTIONS, ARGOCD, DOCKER & ECS, REDUCING RELEASE CYCLES BY 30-40%.
- Managed distributed platforms, including Kafka, EMR, and Flink, to support large-scale data processing and improve data flow efficiency.
- DESIGNED CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE FOR ML AND DATA-INTENSIVE WORKLOADS, IMPROVING RELIABILITY AND RESOURCE EFFICIENCY.
- MANAGED PRODUCTION ETHEREUM INFRASTRUCTURE USING GETH/PARITY FOR GAMING AND DEFI WORKLOADS.
- BUILT AUTOMATED SMART CONTRACT DEPLOYMENT PIPELINES WITH SECURE KEY MANAGEMENT, BACKUPS, MONITORING, AND ALERTING.
SENIOR CLOUD OPERATIONS ENGINEER
Basware
Chandigarh
06.2019 - 04.2021
- Led production incident response and 24/7 on-call, reducing MTTR by 35% and incident frequency by 40%.
- Implemented monitoring, observability, SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to improve system reliability.
- Managed AWS infrastructure and Kubernetes/EKS for production Baswareone workloads, enhancing scalability, security, and reliability.
- Automated infrastructure and deployments with Terraform, Ansible, ArgoCD, Python, and Bash, streamlining processes.
- Managed MongoDB, RHEL, Windows, VMware, and pfSense environments, ensuring operational stability.
ASSOCIATE ENGINEER
Nityo Infotech Services Pvt Ltd.
Chandigarh
10.2012 - 04.2014
- Managed RHEL/Linux infrastructure, reducing downtime by ~30% through proactive administration and DR planning.
- Administered Linux systems, virtualization, and storage, ensuring reliable backups and effective performance troubleshooting.
- Defined infrastructure standards, facilitating resolution of complex production issues to maintain system integrity.
TECH LEAD (DEVOPS)
Tech Mahindra
Noida
09.2018 - 05.2019
- Oversaw AWS-hosted IoT platforms and high-availability production systems, achieving 99.9%+ uptime.
- Automated and administered infrastructure using Docker, Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, VMware/vSphere, and Rancher.
- Managed distributed data platforms including Cassandra, MongoDB, Kafka, ZooKeeper, EMR, CDH, Flink, and YARN.
- Directed incident management, root cause analysis, and production support for high-volume distributed workloads, ensuring system reliability.
CLOUD SYSTEMS ENGINEER
Acquia
New Delhi
01.2017 - 02.2018
- Architected and managed scalable, cost-effective AWS infrastructure supporting thousands of servers and high-volume workloads.
- Automated infrastructure and deployments with Terraform, Docker, Jenkins, and CLI tools, streamlining processes and enhancing deployment consistency.
- Managed LAMP, database, web, and filesystem clusters on EC2, S3, EBS, VMware/vSphere, Nagios, Splunk, and Sumo Logic to support high-availability applications.
- Administered and troubleshot 17,000+ RHEL servers, maintaining reliability and operational efficiency through proactive monitoring and issue resolution.
SR. SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Tech Mahindra
Chandigarh
04.2016 - 12.2016
- Architected and managed scalable, cost-efficient AWS applications and infrastructure.
- Automated deployments and repetitive tasks, streamlining workflows with Ansible, Terraform, Docker, Jenkins, Bamboo, and Shell scripting.
- Troubleshot cloud, OS, networking, and application issues, enhancing system reliability through DevOps best practices.
- Managed Apache, Nginx, Tomcat, Git, Nagios, SignalFx, CQ5, and Solr environments, ensuring optimal performance and uptime.
LINUX ENGINEER
Bebo Technologies Pvt Ltd.
Chandigarh
04.2014 - 04.2016
- Administered RHEL servers, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring systems, leveraging Jenkins, Bamboo, GitHub, Shell, Nagios, and AppDynamics for streamlined automation and networking.
- Oversaw AWS Cloud and DevOps operations, ensuring seamless production and non-production deployments.
- Optimized Hadoop, EMR, Kafka, and ZooKeeper infrastructure, improving data processing throughput by 30-40%.
Education
Bachelor of Technology -
Chandigarh Engineering College
Landran, Mohali01-2012
12th -
Government Sr. Sec. School
Bhogiwal, Malerkotla01-2008
Skills
- Cloud services: AWS, Azure, EKS, ECS, Rancher, Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation
- Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes
- CI/CD tools: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab Pipeline, CircleCI, ArgoCD
- Monitoring solutions: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Splunk, Nagios
- Data processing: Kafka, EMR, Hadoop, Flink
- Orchestration tools: ZooKeeper
- Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, DynamoDB
- Scripting languages: Bash/Shell, Python
- Networking: VPC configuration, load balancing strategies, firewalls
- Operating systems: Linux, Windows, VMware vSphere, macOS
- Security measures: Cloudflare WAF
- Incident management
Certification
- AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate, 84%
- Red Hat Certified Engineer, 100%
- Red Hat Certified System Administrator, 100%
Timeline
DevOps Contractor
DevOps Contractor
04.2021 - Current
SENIOR CLOUD OPERATIONS ENGINEER
Basware
06.2019 - 04.2021
TECH LEAD (DEVOPS)
Tech Mahindra
09.2018 - 05.2019
CLOUD SYSTEMS ENGINEER
Acquia
01.2017 - 02.2018
SR. SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Tech Mahindra
04.2016 - 12.2016
LINUX ENGINEER
Bebo Technologies Pvt Ltd.
04.2014 - 04.2016
ASSOCIATE ENGINEER
Nityo Infotech Services Pvt Ltd.
10.2012 - 04.2014
Bachelor of Technology -
Chandigarh Engineering College
12th -
Government Sr. Sec. School