Kais Dewani

San Antonio TX

• Led the design and deployment of multi-cloud infrastructures for multiple enterprise clients on Upwork, using Terraform and Kubernetes to support scalable, secure environments to support over 10,000 users.
• Designed and automated security controls across cloud infrastructures, including encryption and network traffic restrictions, ensuring minimal exposure to threats and reduced attack surface.
• Orchestrated the use of Azure Key Vaults to manage sensitive credentials securely, ensuring that all critical information was encrypted and securely stored, preventing any exposure of plain text credentials.
• Architected and implemented multi-cloud monitoring solutions using Splunk, enabling real-time log aggregation, alerting, and incident response across distributed cloud environments.
• Improved visibility and reduced resolution time for critical system issues through advanced log analysis and troubleshooting capabilities.
• Led the development and optimization of CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps and Jenkins for various client applications, including automating the deployment of Flask-based services for Shopify.
• Strengthened the security posture of cloud applications by implementing Cloudflare's WAF and DDoS protection, developing advanced security rules and policies that safeguarded against threats, while optimizing for performance and availability.
• Led the application of Zero Trust Security models within Kubernetes clusters, enabling secure, automated deployment and management of cloud-native applications.

Charlotte NC

• Led the end-to-end automation of deployment pipelines using Ansible, Docker and Jenkins, ensuring fully automated, repeatable processes that significantly increased deployment speed and consistency across both development and production environments.
• Partnered with our security and compliance team to integrate FIPS 140-2 requirements into the Jenkins CI/CD pipeline, ensuring the secure handling and encryption of sensitive data throughout the build and release process to maintain compliance standards.
• Managed and provisioned ESXi virtual machines within data center environments, overseeing the deployment, configuration, and maintenance of those virtual machines to ensure optimal performance and scalability.
• Implemented high availability and disaster recovery strategies, ensuring continuous uptime and efficient resource utilization across virtualized environments.
• Monitored and resolved Jenkins build and deployment issues, implementing static code analysis and containerization to ensure continuous, reliable software releases with minimal downtime.
• Worked with development, QA, and security teams to optimize release cycles, improving system stability and accelerating deployments.
• Integrated SonarQube and Tfsec into CI/CD workflows to automate security scanning and ensure compliance with code quality standards.
• Maintained documentation for FIPS 140-2 compliance, including the management of configuration settings, certificates, and audit logs to ensure traceability and adherence to compliance frameworks.
• Improved legacy CI/CD pipelines by introducing Docker containerization and CloudFormation, reducing build times by over 30%, and increasing infrastructure scalability and flexibility.
• Conducted code reviews and pull request assessments, ensuring all changes adhered to security best practices, preventing vulnerabilities, and complying with regulatory requirements.
• Implemented security controls across large-scale environments, ensuring compliance and reducing risks.