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> whoami: I BUILD THE SYSTEMS THAT LET YOUR TEAMS SHIP|

Platform & Infrastructure Engineer with 12+ years designing cloud-native systems end-to-end. GitOps, service meshes, Kubernetes, Kafka — and the AI automation workflows that cut toil. I've been on both sides of the platform.

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Live_Deploy_Visualizer 
[DEPLOYING] >> k8s_cluster_prod
[FETCHING]  >> argocd/applicationset

    +------------------+     +------------------+
    |   Netbird VPN    |<----| External Traffic |
    +--------+---------+     +------------------+
             |
    +--------v---------+     +------------------+
    |   Istio Ingress  |---->|   Dex OIDC SSO   |
    +--------+---------+     +------------------+
             |
    +--------v----------------------------------+
    |           k8s CLUSTER                     |
    |                                           |
    |  +----------+    +------------------+     |
    |  |  ArgoCD  |    |   Apps Workload  |     |
    |  +----------+    +------------------+     |
    |                                           |
    |  +------------------+                     |    +------------+
    |  | External Secrets |-- secrets sync -----|--->| Bitwarden  |
    |  +------------------+                     |    +------------+
    +-------------------------------------------+
             |
    +--------v---------+
    |   PostgreSQL     |
    +------------------+

[STATUS] >> GitOps: SYNCED
[STATUS] >> Health_Check: PASSING

$ system-info --capabilities

[TOTAL_MODULES: 04]
[RUNNING] cloud_done

GitOps-Platform

End-to-end GitOps with ArgoCD, Helm, Kustomize, and Terraform. Infrastructure that deploys itself.

[RUNNING] security

Security-Mesh

Istio service mesh, zero-trust architecture, Dex OIDC SSO, and Bitwarden secrets automation.

[RUNNING] speed

CI/CD-Pipelines

GitHub Actions, Argo Workflows, AWS Step Functions — automated from commit to production.

[RUNNING] analytics

Observability

Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Coroot, OTel. Full-stack telemetry and proactive alerting for engineering teams.

$ tail -f /var/log/impact_audit.log

[2023-Q1 → NOW] [SUCCESS] cloud_platform_engineer: Hudl StatsBomb
  • ▸ Architected Kubernetes infra on AWS EKS for real-time sports analytics workloads.
  • ▸ Built K8s Loki Alert Rules Operator — dev teams configure alerting without platform team.
  • ▸ Replaced AWS DMS with Kafka Connect for DB migrations, cutting cost significantly.
  • ▸ Implemented KEDA autoscaling to sustain availability and eliminate idle spend.
  • ▸ Led Auth0 migration via Ory Oathkeeper proxy + Go backend for zero-downtime transition.
EKS Terraform ArgoCD Kafka Go Prometheus KEDA
[2021-Q4 → 2023-Q1] [SUCCESS] senior_fullstack_engineer: Hudl StatsBomb
  • ▸ Built and maintained services in Node.js, Go, Python — reduced API latency.
  • ▸ Designed Kafka event-driven communication flows for high-load reliability.
  • ▸ Led technical evaluations of cloud solutions and new stacks.
Node.js Go Python Kafka
[2020-Q4 → 2021-Q3] [SUCCESS] technical_team_lead: Vapulus (Fintech)
  • ▸ Architected payment systems on AWS with 99.99% uptime SLA.
  • ▸ Led SOC 2 and PCI DSS compliance — passed multiple audits.
  • ▸ Implemented Istio service mesh across payment services.
  • ▸ Migrated Docker Swarm cluster to AWS EKS, cutting outages and cost.
AWS EKS Terraform Helm Istio
[2018 → 2020-Q3] [SUCCESS] technical_team_lead: Tqweem Masr (EdTech)
[2017-Q3 → 2018] [SUCCESS] senior_fullstack_developer: Tqweem Masr
[2016-Q2 → 2017-Q2] [SUCCESS] fullstack_developer: Ousta Technologies
cat engineer_manifesto.md

PLATFORM AS A
FORCE MULTIPLIER

"The platform's job is to disappear. When developers ship without thinking about infrastructure, the platform has done its job. Every manual step, every tribal knowledge dependency, every ticket to the platform team — is a bug."

"Complexity is the enemy of reliability. We don't add observability after the fact. We don't bolt on security. We don't optimize after the outage. We build it in from the start, or we accept the consequences."

1. Automate or it will bite you at 3am.

2. GitOps over ClickOps — if it's not in git, it doesn't exist.

3. Observability over intuition. Alert on symptoms, not causes.

4. Developer experience is platform correctness.

$ ls -la /usr/local/skills/

[MODULES: 6]
dns

Platform & Infra

Kubernetes AWS EKS GCP Terraform Terragrunt ArgoCD Helm Kustomize Atlantis Istio cert-manager External Secrets Operator Netbird VPN KEDA
monitoring

Observability

Prometheus Grafana Loki Alertmanager Coroot ClickHouse OpenTelemetry
sync_alt

CI/CD & GitOps

GitHub Actions ArgoCD Argo Workflows AWS Step Functions Docker multi-arch builds
code

Backend & Languages

Go Python TypeScript Node.js FastAPI Microservices DDD Event Sourcing
hub

Data & Messaging

Kafka Kafka Connect RabbitMQ PostgreSQL MongoDB Redis Elasticsearch
auto_awesome

AI & Automation

n8n Ollama Claude API MCP Multi-agent pipelines LLM workflows

$ ls ~/side-projects/

[ACTIVE_PROCESSES: 4]
[RUNNING] check_circle

homelab

Bare-metal Proxmox host running k3s with full GitOps, Istio service mesh, Netbird VPN, Dex SSO, and local LLM inference on AMD iGPU. Where I go deep before going to prod.

Proxmox k3s ArgoCD Istio Terraform Ollama Coroot
[RUNNING] check_circle

ai-agent-platform

Multi-agent orchestration for architect → tech → review pipelines, LLM-powered bots, and n8n automation that replaces manual toil with code.

n8n Claude API MCP Ollama Discord
[RUNNING] check_circle

personal-ai

Terminal-native AI assistant backed by local LLM, with SQLite persistent memory and MCP tool integrations. Self-contained, no cloud dependency.

Python Ollama SQLite MCP
[IN_PROGRESS] pending

ai-driven-activity-auto-discover

Event-driven activity discovery platform. Kafka-driven architecture, Zitadel auth, Next.js frontend.

FastAPI Kafka Next.js Zitadel PostgreSQL

$ openssl x509 -in cert.crt -text -noout

// certifications
CKA
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
CNCF
CKAD
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
CNCF
DDD
Software Architecture: Domain-Driven Design
Coursera
KAFKA
Kafka: Microservices
Confluent
// education
school
B.Sc. Mechatronics Engineering
October 6 University
Engineering background shapes how I think about systems — feedback loops, failure modes, tolerance margins.
$ ./establish_connection.sh

AWAITING SYSTEM HANDSHAKE...

Based in Dubai, UAE. Open to relocation and visa sponsorship.
Platform Engineering · SRE · DevOps · Cloud Infrastructure.

mail husamuddin.hamad@gmail.com ssh linkedin.com/in/husamuddin cat github.com/husamuddin