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01 · Executive profile

Fifteen years, from packet level to platform level.

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Azhar Ahmed, Windsor, Ontario

Senior Site Reliability and DevOps Engineer with 15+ years of engineering experience, including 7+ years operating AWS and Kubernetes platforms for Western Union's mission critical payment systems. Delivered 99.98% uptime across 200+ services, reduced MTTR by 30 to 40% through standardized triage and structured war rooms, and saved $75K annually by automating post patch validation.

Certified CKA, CKAD, AWS Developer Associate and HashiCorp Terraform Associate, with a Master's in Computer Science (Cloud Computing). Brings strong incident management, observability, infrastructure as code and mentoring skills to a Senior SRE or DevOps role in Canada.

Core qualifications

  1. Reliability at scale

    Sustained 99.98% uptime across 200+ payment services by designing and maintaining highly available AWS and Kubernetes platform infrastructure at Western Union.

  2. Kubernetes expertise

    Troubleshooting across workloads, scheduling, networking and RBAC, resolving 85%+ of developer tickets without escalation and cutting average resolution time from 6 hours to 2.5 hours.

  3. Incident leadership

    Reduced MTTR by 30 to 40% (about 65 to 38 to 42 minutes) through standardized triage, structured war rooms and postmortem actions that cut recurring incidents by 15%.

  4. Automation and IaC

    Terraform, CloudFormation, Jenkins, Argo CD, Python and Bash, cutting environment provisioning from 2 to 3 days to 45 to 90 minutes and saving $75K annually.

  5. Mentoring

    Guided distributed engineering teams, earned a Star Award and cut offshore to onshore handover time from 25 minutes to under 8.

Education

Grounded in computer science

2022

Master of Science, Computer Science (Cloud Computing)

Campbellsville University, Kentucky, USA

2016

Master's Degree, Operations Management

University of Arkansas, Arkansas, USA

2007

Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science

Osmania University, Hyderabad, India

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