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I build the platforms that let small teams ship like big ones.

I am Habib Qayoom, a DevOps and platform engineer. I run production Kubernetes for an AI SaaS platform today, and I help startups and SaaS teams get to a setup they understand, can afford and do not have to babysit.

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approach

How I work

Most teams I talk to do not need more tools. They need fewer surprises: releases that do not depend on one person, alerts that mean something and a bill that makes sense.

I work in your cloud accounts and repositories from day one, write everything as code and leave documentation your team will actually read. When the project ends, you own all of it.

I work remotely with UK and international teams and overlap comfortably with UK working hours. Email gets the fastest response.

  • Boring is the goal

    A good platform makes releases and incidents uneventful. Clever is a cost.

  • Everything as code

    Infrastructure, pipelines, dashboards and alerts live in Git with a review trail.

  • Fixed scope, fixed quote

    You see the scope and the price before anything starts. No hourly surprises.

  • Handover is a deliverable

    Runbooks, docs and a recorded walkthrough are part of every project, not an extra.

experience

Where I've built.

Three roles, widening scope: from a first Dockerfile to owning production for an AI platform.

  1. Aug 2025 to presentTechanzy, contracted to a London based AI SaaS company

    DevOps / Platform Engineer

    • Run production infrastructure across four Azure AKS clusters, PostgreSQL, Azure Functions, Key Vault and Blob Storage.
    • Built 40+ Grafana Cloud dashboards and 30+ alert rules, plus a Loki to Slack alerting pipeline.
    • Cut the Grafana Cloud bill by about 71% by fixing the root causes of metric and log growth.
    • Engineered isolated Kubernetes workloads for browser automation agents and self hosted RAG on AKS.
    • Drove ISO 27001:2022 evidence and remediation in Vanta.
  2. Jan 2025 to Aug 2025Code to Kloud

    DevOps Engineer

    • Provisioned AWS VPCs and EKS clusters with Terraform, including IRSA, ALB Controller and EBS CSI.
    • Built CI/CD for ECS Fargate and deployed EKS workloads with ArgoCD.
    • Set up dev, staging and prod promotion with environment scoped approvals.
  3. Jun 2024 to Dec 2024Upvave

    DevOps Intern, then Associate DevOps Engineer

    • Built AWS networking with Terraform and deployed to EKS and ECS with GitHub Actions and CodePipeline, including blue/green deploys.
    • Deployed Prometheus, Grafana, Loki and Fluent Bit across EKS and ECS.
credentials

Certification

AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Associate (SAA-C03)Amazon Web Services
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toolkit

The toolkit.

The cloud platforms, observability tools and infrastructure as code I use to keep production reliable and cost efficient.

  • Cloud & Infrastructure

    • Azure
    • AKS
    • Azure Functions
    • Key Vault
    • PostgreSQL Flexible Server
    • Blob Storage
    • Entra ID
    • AWS EC2
    • AWS EKS
    • AWS ECS
    • VPC
    • IAM
    • S3
    • Lambda
    • Cloudflare Workers

  • Containers & Orchestration

    • Kubernetes
    • Docker
    • Helm
    • cert-manager
    • ACR
    • HPA / Cluster Autoscaler

  • Observability & Monitoring

    • Grafana Cloud
    • Prometheus / PromQL
    • Loki / LogQL
    • Tempo
    • Pyroscope
    • Grafana Alloy
    • Application Insights
    • Synthetic Monitoring

  • IaC & CI/CD

    • Terraform
    • GitHub Actions
    • AWS CodePipeline / CodeDeploy
    • Jenkins
    • ArgoCD
    • Azure DevOps
    • Dependabot

  • Scripting & Databases

    • Python
    • Bash
    • PowerShell
    • PostgreSQL
    • MySQL
    • SQL
    • KQL

  • Security & Compliance

    • ISO 27001:2022 (Vanta)
    • CIS Benchmarks
    • NIST 800-53
    • OWASP ZAP
    • Bandit
    • RBAC
    • Secrets management

Tell me what is slowing your team down.

A 30 minute call, or an email to habibqayoom7070@gmail.com if you prefer.

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