Is your AWS bill climbing, your deployments slow and risky, or a cloud migration stuck because nobody wants to touch production? That's usually where people find me.
I'm a Senior AWS Cloud and DevOps Engineer with 12+ years in software, cloud and infrastructure engineering, running real production systems on AWS, Azure, GCP and Kubernetes. AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional. My goal is simple: build infrastructure your team can run confidently without me.
RESULTS I'VE DELIVERED
✅ Cut deployment time from 2+ hours to under 10 minutes by rebuilding a legacy CI/CD pipeline in GitLab CI and GitHub Actions, with zero-downtime releases
✅ Reduced a client's AWS bill by 38% (about $11,000/month) through right-sizing, Spot Instances and Reserved Capacity, with no performance loss
✅ Migrated 30+ on-prem services to AWS EKS with zero downtime, including databases, message queues and a PCI-DSS compliant workload
✅ Turned manual, multi-day ML deployments into an automated same-day Kubernetes pipeline
AWS, AZURE & GCP CLOUD ARCHITECTURE
✅ Cloud architecture design and Well-Architected reviews
✅ AWS cost optimization and FinOps audits
✅ High availability, disaster recovery and business continuity planning
CLOUD MIGRATION
✅ On-premises to AWS, Azure or GCP migration
✅ Zero-downtime cutover planning and post-migration tuning
✅ Monolith to microservices modernization
KUBERNETES & DOCKER
✅ Production EKS, AKS and GKE clusters
✅ Helm, ingress, autoscaling and Docker containerization
INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE (TERRAFORM, ANSIBLE, CLOUDFORMATION)
✅ Reusable Terraform modules for dev, staging and production
✅ Review and cleanup of existing Terraform code
CI/CD & DEVOPS AUTOMATION
✅ GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins and Azure DevOps pipelines
✅ Automated testing and security checks, blue/green and rolling deployments
DEVSECOPS & COMPLIANCE
✅ IAM and Entra ID least-privilege access
✅ CIS hardening, PCI-DSS environments and zero-trust design
MONITORING & OBSERVABILITY
✅ Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK and CloudWatch
✅ Alerting, incident investigation and root-cause analysis
HOW I WORK
✅ Straight advice on what your setup really needs, even if that means less
✅ 15 days of free support after delivery
✅ Clear documentation your team can follow
Gulfam S. earns an estimated $8k/mo. That's 7× the typical freelancer and more than 99.81% of everyone we track.
LET'S TALK
Send me what you're running today and what keeps breaking. I'll reply with a practical first step and an honest view of the scope.
TECH STACK
AWS | Azure | GCP | Kubernetes | EKS | Docker | Helm | Terraform | Ansible | CloudFormation | GitHub Actions | GitLab CI | Jenkins | Azure DevOps | Prometheus | Grafana | Datadog | ELK | CloudWatch | Python | Bash | Go | Linux