Hello, I am

Shazy Nisar

I build & scale

Senior Platform & DevOps Engineer with 10+ years of expertise designing secure, reliable, and high-performance cloud-native platforms. Proven in delivering 99.99% uptime and driving 70% faster deployments across enterprise environments.

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About Me

I am a Senior Platform & DevOps Engineer with a strong track record of engineering high-availability systems across SaaS, Telecom, E-commerce, FinTech, and Healthcare. I focus heavily on optimizing cloud spending, building Internal Developer Platforms (IDP), and reducing deployment times while improving the overall developer experience.

With over a decade of production hands-on experience, I design modular Infrastructure as Code (IaC) architectures, implement automated GitOps delivery pipelines, and establish SLO-driven observability architectures to systematically maintain error budgets and eliminate operational toil.

Detailed descriptions of my engineering workflows and specific platform architectures are documented in my CV file, Shazy Nisar.pdf.

Location

Frisco, Texas 75035

Email

shazynisarjutt@gmail.com

Education

BS in Computer Science
Purdue University

Certifications

CKA, AWS Solutions Architect, Terraform

Technical Stack

Cloud Platforms

AWS Azure GCP EC2 S3 Compute Engine

Orchestration & GitOps

Kubernetes Docker Helm FluxCD ArgoCD Istio basics

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform Pulumi CloudFormation

CI/CD Pipelines

Jenkins GitHub Actions GitLab CI Azure DevOps

Observability Stack

Prometheus Grafana ELK Stack Fluentd Datadog OpenTelemetry Jaeger

Automation & Scripting

Python Bash / Shell Go PowerShell

Security & IAM

Vault AWS IAM Azure AD Vulnerability Scanning HIPAA compliance

Tools & Configuration

Git Linux Systems Nginx & Apache VMware Ansible Puppet & Chef

SRE / Domain Expertise

SLO/SLA Design Incident Management RCA / Forensics Chaos Engineering SaaS / Telecom FinTech / Healthcare

Experience

Lead Platform Engineer

04/2023 - Present

BetterCloud

  • Lead the design of multi-cloud infrastructure using Terraform across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
  • Built internal developer platforms (IDP) utilizing Kubernetes (EKS/GKE) and Helm to streamline onboarding.
  • Standardized CI/CD pipelines across Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and GitLab CI while introducing GitOps workflows via FluxCD and ArgoCD.
  • Engineered custom platform utility automation tools using Python and Go.
  • Implemented enterprise-wide observability stacks using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and Datadog, establishing systematic SLO-based reliability and incident routing (PagerDuty automation).
  • Managed cloud cost management strategies aligned with FinOps principles, secrets using Vault, and introduced AI-assisted workflows (GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT).

Site Reliability Engineer

05/2020 - 05/2023

PacketFabric

  • Managed mission-critical production Kubernetes clusters (EKS, AKS, and bare-metal nodes) ensuring 99.99% availability.
  • Optimized cluster resources, workload scaling, and automated routine system tasks via Python, Go, and Bash to reduce manual toil by 70%.
  • Established multi-cloud pipelines using FluxCD, ArgoCD, and automated GitOps methodologies.
  • Built telemetry frameworks integrating Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Fluentd, OpenTelemetry, and Jaeger for trace-to-metrics transparency.
  • Developed SRE processes by formalizing SLO/SLI metrics, automating PagerDuty integrations, and leading chaos engineering runbooks.

DevOps Engineer

10/2017 - 04/2020

Wellframe

  • Developed highly repeatable Infrastructure as Code deployment routines via multi-cloud Terraform templates on AWS, GCP, and Azure.
  • Constructed CI/CD workflows spanning Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and GitLab CI supporting Blue/Green and Canary release patterns.
  • Ensured strong data security compliance (HIPAA) by integrating Snyk, Aqua, SonarQube, and Vault.
  • Transitioned VM architectures into lightweight container platforms using Docker and Kubernetes, and automated deployment logs through ELK Stack dashboards.

Infrastructure Engineer

06/2015 - 09/2017

Margeta

  • Managed Linux-based systems (Ubuntu, CentOS) supporting high-traffic e-commerce and financial platforms.
  • Automated operational tasks and cron operations using Python and Bash scripts.
  • Managed enterprise web servers using Apache and Nginx web server integrations.
  • Supported production incident troubleshooting, analyzed system health logs, and maintained comprehensive operational deployment runbooks.

Featured Platform Initiatives

Cloud Migration & CI/CD Platform

Migrated legacy healthcare systems to secure cloud architecture across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Integrated multi-cloud Terraform templates with secure, compliant pipelines ensuring robust HIPAA controls, realizing 70% faster deployments.

Terraform Kubernetes HIPAA

Telecom K8s Reliability Platform

Implemented highly resilient Kubernetes infrastructure for high-throughput telecom workloads. Leveraged FluxCD, GitOps, and structured observability (OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, Prometheus) with chaos engineering to maintain a 99.99% uptime SLA.

GitOps OpenTelemetry Chaos Eng.

Internal Developer Platform (IDP)

Built a secure SaaS provisioning engine utilizing Kubernetes, Helm templates, and automated ArgoCD rollouts. Empowered developers to self-service environments safely, complete with secrets configuration using Vault.

IDP / SaaS ArgoCD HashiCorp Vault

Let's Connect

Always open to discussing platform design, reliability initiatives, cloud cost optimizations, or advanced infrastructure solutions. Drop me a line directly.

shazynisarjutt@gmail.com (516) 748-8790