Afraz Ahmadzadeh

● Developed agentic development workflows, helped restructure company to take advantage of GenAI possibilities

● Designed and implemented Terraform framework for application deployments coupled with infrastructure permissions and VCS pipelines

● Migrated engineering from CircleCI to Github Actions workflows

● Migrated from single shared AWS account to multi-team, multi-staged accounts

● Implemented least-privileged permissions system with automated break-glass procedure for emergencies

● Implemented company-wide monitoring, logging, and alerting system with Grafana

● Designed and implemented Kubernetes migrations ○ Containerisation of existing services ○ Design of new service orientated architecture ○ CI/CD deploys with automatic rollbacks on bad releases

● Designed and implemented Infrastructure as Code system and process

● Solved systematic issues such as: ○ Centralised logging, metrics, and monitoring ○ Adherence to AWS best practice in network and account design

● Revamped build and runtime setup for legacy monoliths to respond to DOS attacks faster, using optimised cloud-init scripting, and more advanced AWS ASG features

● Co-designed and developed cloud native or container Managed Services products: ○ Reusable, independent, versioned Terraform modules ○ Layered approach to Infrastructure as Code, with degrees of separation going from generic to customer specific code ○ Wrote open source tooling for common AWS tasks like blue / green deploys, RDS migrations, AMI cleanups, etc. ○ Separate Kubernetes version ○ Designed to pass Amazon's Well Architected Framework review

● Migration lead for customers moving to AWS: ○ Database migrations to instance DBs or RDS ○ Building CI/CD pipelines using Gitlab with Packer or Docker ○ Developer training ○ Retooling of existing services to AWS native services where necessary / profitable ○ Zero downtime migrations ○ Moving to industry best practices

● Wrote customer proposals, designed solutions, implemented solutions