Hello, World! This is Syed Shafin Hasnat 👋
ABOUT ME
Highly motivated and results-oriented DevOps Engineer with a passion for building scalable, secure, and automated cloud infrastructure. Proven ability to design, implement, and manage Kubernetes clusters, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud services. Eager to contribute to innovative projects and drive efficiency through automation and best practices. Experienced in working with diverse teams and contributing to the development of cutting-edge solutions. Continuously learning and exploring new technologies to stay at the forefront of the industry.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
- Languages & Frameworks: Golang, Python, JS, Node.js, Flask, FastAPI
- DevOps Tools: Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Nginx, Traefik, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Ansible, Terraform, GitOps, ArgoCD, Grafana stack, Elastic stack
- Database: Postgresql, Mysql, Mongodb, DynamoDB
- Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP, DigitalOcean
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
BRAC IT | Dhaka
DevOps Engineer | October 2024 – Present
- Deployed a secure, scalable architecture on Kubernetes using Terraform leveraging API Gateway, WAF, multi-node pools with different networking rules ensuring high availability, optimized performance, and automated CI/CD.
- Developed Helm charts and CI/CD pipelines for deploying applications across multiple environments in GKE using GitLab CI and Argo CD, ensuring automated, consistent, and efficient deployments.
- Developed Kubernetes operator to monitor queue messages and dynamically scale pods based on unacknowledged messages, ensuring seamless microservice operation.
NexGen Cloud | Remote (Spain)
DevOps Engineer | April 2023 - September 2024
- Automated deployment of on-demand environments using Ansible, cutting setup time by 80% and accelerating testing cycles.
- Migrated systems to AWS with minimal downtime (below 5 minutes) and ensured 100% data integrity.
- Developed and implemented fully automated CI/CD pipelines, enhancing the software delivery process and reducing deployment times.
- Architectured and implemented the billing and payment service from the ground up, ensuring robustness and efficiency leveraging Celery, Kafka, MySQL, Apache Airflow.
- Utilized OpenStack API to integrate new cloud features seamlessly into the Hyperstack platform.
Intercloud Limited | Dhaka
Software Engineer | August 2021 – April 2023
- Deployed and managed Kubernetes clusters on-premise cloud infrastructure, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security of applications with proper monitoring and alerting functionalities using Grafana stack.
- Designed and implemented production ready CI/CD pipelines with GitLab CI and ArgoCD to automate application deployment in kubernetes cluster ensuring version control, faster rollbacks.
- Architected and developed the Brilliant Platform as a Service (PaaS), enabling 99% faster application deployment with faster rollback by entirely cutting off the server configuration time for the clients.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop and maintain various OpenStack based cloud features into the Brilliant Cloud Platform.
Poridhi.io | Remote (Part-time)
DevOps Consultant | June 2022 – February 2023
- Consulted and mentored a team of 10 engineers, leading the architectural design and development of microservices-based systems.
- Deployed production ready Kubernetes clusters and provided necessary DevOps support on demand.
- Designed and developed the Poridhi cloud lab playground which enables users to practice cloud on a sandbox platform.
Arogga | Remote (Dhaka)
Software Developer | February 2021 – July 2021
- Developed the Arogga mobile app for both Android and iOS from the ground up, contributing to its transformation into a leading med-tech company of the country with a user base of 1 million.
EDUCATION
Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology | Chattogram, Bangladesh
- BSc. Engineering in Mechatronics & Industrial Engineering | 2017-2022
NOTABLE PROJECTS
Intelligent Pod Autoscaler | January 2025
Golang, Kubernetes, Kubebuilder, LLM
- Intelligent Pod Autoscaler is a Kubernetes operator that collects application-specific and cluster-specific metrics from a Kubernetes cluster and analyzes them using an LLM model. It automatically scales the target deployment based on the analyzed metrics.
Rebis | November 2024
Golang
- Rebis is a lightweight, high-performance key-value cache written in Go. It uses its own TCP-based network protocol for fast connections between clients and servers. It supports native query syntax as well as client libraries for multiple programming languages.
Brilliant App Platform | December 2022
Python, Celery, Kubernetes SDK
- Brilliant App Platform is a platform as a service (PaaS) for Brilliant Cloud Portal. Users can deploy their web applications (python, static) simply by providing source code. Users will get a dynamic https encrypted url to access the application. It also allows users to deploy new versions of their application and rollback to previous versions.
Poridhi Cloud Lab Playground | August 2022
Python, Traefik, Socket.io, pty, Xterm.js, EKS
- A platform to launch container-based linux virtual servers, databases and other tools with simple REST api calls for 1 hour. User can access linux server via SSH or directly use xterm terminal from browser and practice linux, several databases and DevOps tools.
Undergrad Final Year Project | July 2022
Design & Development of a multi robot communication system
- Implementation of R2R and R2I communication in a model industrial multi robot system for material handling. MQTT was used for communication which was deployed in a Linux VM.
Image Steganography Webapp | May 2020
OpenCV, Numpy, Flask etc.
- An image steganography web application for encoding and decoding text in an image file without quality loss. Users can upload an image with a text to encode inside the image. A mathematical operation is applied on the text and image. The encoded data can be retrieved by reverse calculation of pixel value.
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
Robo Mechatronics Association Bangladesh
President (2020-21 Organizing Committee)
- Led this university based robotics club of more than 250 members. Organized various technical workshops, competitions and voluntary activities.
BLOGS
- Intelligent Pod Autoscaler - Feb 18, 2025
- REDIS Made Easy - June 15, 2021