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Syed Muhammad Ali Haidry

Syed Muhammad Ali Haidry

Senior DevOps Engineer

CDS | Ex TD Bank

AzureKubernetesTerraformCI/CDObservability
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5+
Years in IT
13+
Blog Posts
6
Cloud Certs
4
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Hi, I'm Syed Muhammad Ali Haidry, a passionate Software Systems Engineer. My passion for software lies with dreaming up ideas and making them come true with elegant interfaces. I take great care in the experience, architecture, and code quality of the things I build.

My learning and implementation persist in the domain of DevOps, Cloud Solutions, Cloud Architecture & Software Development.

I have 5+ years of experience in IT.

Skills & Tech Stack

Cloud Platforms & IaC
AzureAWSGCPTerraformAzure BicepCloudFormation
Containers & Orchestration
KubernetesDockerHelmArgoCDGitOpsAnsible
CI/CD & Automation
JenkinsGitHub ActionsAzure DevOpsGitLab CIBitbucketPowerShell
Observability & Reporting
PrometheusGrafanaLokiDatadogELK StackPowerBI
Scripting & Databases
PythonShellYAMLPostgreSQLMongoDBMySQL
Infrastructure & Virtualization
Hyper-VVMwareLinux (RHEL/Debian)KafkaFluent BitServiceNow

Certifications

🏆Expert
AZ-305
Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Microsoft
⚙️
AZ-104
Azure Administrator Associate
Microsoft
🤖
AI-102
Azure AI Engineer Associate
Microsoft
🧠
AI-900
Azure AI Fundamentals
Microsoft
☁️
AZ-900
Azure Fundamentals
Microsoft
🌩️
CLF-C02
AWS Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services

Work Experience

Senior DevOps Engineer

Curve Digital Solutions·Karachi, PK
CurrentAug 2025 – Present
  • Architecting and designing cloud-based infrastructure and solutions for the Unified Marketing Platform
  • Consolidated end-to-end log aggregation pipeline (Prometheus, Fluent Bit, Kafka, Promtail, Loki) rendered in Grafana — 100% ops satisfaction
  • Automated Windows Server 2022 Hyper-V lifecycle (DHCP, NAT, DNS, WinRM, Firewall) via PowerShell, significantly reducing provisioning time
  • Developed complete VM lifecycle automation for Hyper-V: image creation, suspend/resume, deletion, and user management

DevOps Engineer

Curve Digital Solutions·Karachi, PK
Aug 2024 – Jul 2025
  • Developed Python scripts to automate processes and execute Ansible playbooks with MySQL integration
  • Set up Jenkins pipelines integrated with GitHub and Docker Hub, improving release frequency by 25%
  • Managed 10+ server production infrastructure, contributing to a 10% improvement in system response times
  • Trained and mentored 5+ new team members, improving team productivity and collaboration

IT Ops Specialist

TD Bank Group·Toronto, CA
Feb 2022 – May 2024
  • Led Azure Sandbox environment deployment, enabling LOBs to experiment with POCs at 100% success rate
  • Implemented telemetry dashboards for Azure VMs, App Services & ML Workspaces — 40% increase in infrastructure sustainability
  • Developed FinOps framework on Azure reducing $1,200 USD/month in Azure Learning Box costs
  • Drove a 30% improvement in business unit performance through process optimisation and automation

Intern DevOps Engineer

mobileLIVE·Toronto, CA
Jan 2020 – Sep 2020
  • Implemented CI/CD pipeline on AWS (Elastic Beanstalk, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline) — 25% improvement in deployment efficiency
  • Developed foundational Terraform modules for AWS infrastructure, reducing manual workload by 40%
  • Deployed containerised applications on GCP via Kubernetes & Helm, increasing deployment speed by 70%

Education

🎓
Master of Engineering
Software Systems Engineering
University of Regina
Canada2019 – 2021
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Bachelor of Science
Computer Science
Bahria University
Pakistan2013 – 2017

Open Source & GitHub

Contribution activity — last 26 weeks

18
Public Repos
13
Blog Posts
42
Stars Earned

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