Hi, I am Ali

I am a DevOps Engineer.
Passionate about working on Cloud Computing, DevOps, Security and Programming.
Develop a lot of open source projects.

Ali Muhammad

DevOps Engineer at CTAC

Ali Muhammad is a Cloud Engineer, currently working at CTAC. He is tasked with working on AWS Cloud to facilitate customers with leading cloud technology and implement best possible solutions. Highly interested in keeping up with latest technologies, implementing them and utilizing wherever possible and appropriate in his professional life.

Quick Learning

Team Work

Problem Solving

Leadership

Skills

AWS

Capable of designing, developing, architecting, securing and setting up Infrastructure eco-system on AWS platform.

Linux

An avid lover of Linux operating systems. Skilled at designing, configuring, hardening & maintaining Linux servers based on requirements and needs.

Ansible

Developed a significant amount of Ansible roles. Utilize Ansible both in personal and professional capacity.

Terraform

Terraform is an absolute favorite when it comes to infrastructure as code, especially for Cloud Providers.

Vagrant

Enjoy using vagrant locally whenever the need arises. Developed multiple vagrant boxes that are available on Vagrant Cloud.

Docker

Utilize Docker for as the source of containerization for multiple projects. Proficient at developing multi-stage builds & developing containerized infrastructure.

Cloud Computing

Though AWS being the main Cloud Computing I work with, I still do have experience with other Cloud Providers such as Azure and GCP.

Git

Treat Git as the main version control system for all of my codebase professionally and personally. Experience with GitHub, CodeCommit, Azure DevOps and GitLab git repositories.

Inspec

Inspec is an awesome open-source testing framework. I make use of it for both Cloud Infrastructure and server level testing

Experiences

Cloud (DevOps) Engineer

CTAC

Jan 2019 - Present, Falls Church, VA, U.S.A

CTAC is committed to providing top-quality engineering and IT solutions with fully-optimized Development Operations (DevOps).

Responsibilities:

Design and build AWS Infrastructure eco-system solutions for clients.
Research, perform proof of concepts and introduce latest technologies that can benefit both the CTAC and our clients.
Develop secure systems.
Architect fault-tolerant systems, implement disaster recovery solutions and implement cost-saving strategies.
Manage project deployment life-cycle, define requirements, research solutions, design systems, support testing and oversee live implementation.

Senior Cloud Engineer

Techlogix

August 2018 - November 2018, Lahore, Pakistan

Techlogix is an information technology, consulting, and business solutions company that helps enterprises use innovation and emerging technologies to digitally transform their businesses.

Responsibilities:

Designed, set up, administered and managed CI/CD using Visual Studio Team Services and Jenkins.
Created, administered and designed Azure App services, Azure Storage account, Azure SQL servers, Azure Active Directory, Virtual Machines, Virtual Networks and other resources. Auto scaling of cloud Infrastructure to optimize performance and cost.

DevOps Engineer

Netsol Technologies - Innovation Group Global Solutions (1insurer)

November 2014 - July 2018, Lahore, Pakistan

NETSOL Technologies provides superior software solutions & digital enablement solutions for the asset finance & leasing industry worldwide.

Responsibilities:

Automated Build processes using GIT/SVN, Maven/ANT and Jenkins/VSTS for Java EE & WebSphere based applications. Maintained GIT/SVN repositories. Scripted Python/Shell scripts for automated application deployments to web application servers hosted on Windows/AIX/Linux/AWS EC2 instances as well as for database-oriented activities for a complete SDLC.
Managed servers/instances ranging from MSSQL, DB2, IBM WebSphere, SonarQube, EC2 and Tomcat.
Performed R&D on the latest technologies, achieved proof of concept end-to-end and introduced them within the company to build up an Agile and DevOps environment.
Awarded Performance Excellence Award and monetary sum (years of 2016 & 2018).

Projects

cis_ubuntu_2004

Owner/Developer July 2020 - Present

Production-Grade | Ansible Role for applying CIS Benchmark for Ubuntu Linux 20.04 LTS (hardening).

ansible devops

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devopsubuntu1804

Owner/Developer Nov 2018 - Present

Vagrant VM box with Base image of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic) that has DevOps tools, programming languages & environments pre-installed, ready to be used instantly after boot up.

vagrant ansible

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docker-ansible

Owner/Developer Sept 2019 - Present

Docker images that provide users with easy to use ansible docker container images; ready-to-go images that also facilitate for molecule testing of ansible roles during development.

docker ansible

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Recent Posts

Roles Collection

1. Intro A configuration tool like Ansible makes it easy to manage thousands of systems, whether it be in personal or in professional life. Motivated to manage my own systems in an automated manner, I ended up developing some Ansible roles for ease of use that can easily be utilized on any amount of systems. This project contains a curated list of open source Ansible roles that I have been developing and are publicly available on GitHub.

August 11, 2021 Read

Quickly stopping all running vagrant instances

Problem Statement When running several vagrant instances, it can be slightly time consuming to have to individually stop all of them. Solution The snippet below is a bash script that can efficiently stop all running vagrant instances under the user running the script. Note: This script works well on both Linux/Unix and MacOS operating systems. #!/bin/bash -e ### 1\. Script globally checks for all vagrant instances running under the user executing the script.

May 1, 2020 Read

Let's Encrypt CAA rechecking bug checker

Snippet Following is quick and dirty snippet to perform a check for CAA Rechecking Bug against your sites. #!/usr/bin/env python3 import requests ## This python3 code snippet checks for the bug reported on: ## https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/2020-02-29-caa-rechecking-bug/114591 ## This script can be run as: `python3 letsencrypt_caa_bugcheck.py` ## Replace the value for domains with appropriate domains you want to check against. domains = ["myfirstdomain.com", "myseconddomain.com"] url = 'https://checkhost.unboundtest.com/checkhost' for domain in domains: print('Testing LetsEncrypt CAA rechecking bug for:', domain) payload = {'fqdn': domain} req = requests.

April 4, 2020 Read