Syed Muhammad Hashim
Software Engineer | DevOps | Kubernetes | AWS | GoLang | Python
Senior Software Engineer
Professional Experience
Senior Software Engineer
01/2022 - Present
Lahore, Pakistan
Worked with clients across multiple domains, including e-commerce, NFTs, and the watch market, to design, implement, and manage microservices and DevOps processes from scratch.
Projects
ETO GRUPPE
A company that specializes in the design and manufacturing of electrical components and systems for various industries
- Optimized Dockerfiles by leveraging Docker's multistage build and layering capabilities, resulting on average in a 70% reduction in image size and 50% reduction in build time
- Led migration of cloud (AWS & Azure) workloads to managed Kubernetes (SysEleven) using Helm, Helmfile and Gitlab CI/CD
Neustreet - Collectibles Insights Platform
A platform that aimed to provide insights into collectibles and assist users to find reliable sources for their purchase.
- Created Dockerfiles for services, facilitating their packaging, release and deployment.
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines using Gitlab Pipelines for automating the release and deployment process.
- Created Docker Compose files to run multiple interdependent services together, simulating cloud environments and facilitating testing and debugging for developers.
- Wrote and maintained terraform code including terraform modules to manage a complex infrastructure on AWS. Primarily, the infrastructure relied on containers/tasks running on ECS Fargate.
- Developed RESTful APIs in AWS Lambda and API Gateway using the Serverless framework.
- Developed an S3 data migration service in Golang for efficient and fast transfer of large amount of data between S3 buckets by using Go's concurrency.
- Used Scrapy and Selenium packages to write Python scripts for web scraping.
- Provisioned AWS Batch infrastructure using Terraform to seamlessly run multiple jobs scheduled through Apache Airflow.
TKKR - Watch Market Platform
A platform that allowed investments in luxury watches using cryptocurrency.
- Containerized their services using Docker.
- Provisioned and managed a robust infrastructure on AWS, leveraging ECS Fargate.
- Implemented CI/CD for multiple services using Github Actions, enabling an efficient release and deployment process.
Benzinga - Financial News Platform
A platform that provided information related to the finance world to help people make better choices when trading and investing.
- Built a Sitemap Generator service in Golang that generated sitemaps and submitted them to search engines periodically based on different requirements.
- Wrote Kubernetes manifest YAML files and Helm templates to facilitate smooth deployment and management of the microservices.
- Leveraged AWS-provided SDKs for Golang to interact with various AWS services, addressing a range of use cases.
Software Engineer (Platform Team)
10/2019 - 01/2022
Lahore, Pakistan
Worked with a team of tech polygots, building and maintaining microservices while supporting, automating, and optimizing deployments in Kubernetes clusters using configuration management, CI/CD, and DevOps processes.
Projects
Teamplay - Business Intelligence System
A platform that provided analytics, insights, trends, decision support, and predictions to businesses in order to help improve performance and reduce downtime or losses.
- Significantly reduced the resource utilization of a Server Management Service by 90% through a ground-up redesign and redevelopment in Golang.
- Enabled metric collection for an Openresty/Nginx server by creating utility functions in Lua, leveraging the Prometheus metric library for Nginx.
- Enhanced a Script Management Server, built with the Falcon Web Framework, by adding the capability to save and configure runtime environments for scripts during startup.
- Developed a Java command-line tool using JCommander to generate encrypted and serialized license strings from a license JSON and private keys.
- Implemented a JSON converter class in Java using the Converter Interface provided by Eclipse, enabling seamless conversion of License objects to JSON for storage in a PostgreSQL database.
- Automated version-based database migrations for a service written in Java Spring Boot by integrating Flyway with it.
- Built and maintained robust CI/CD pipelines for various repositories using Bitbucket Pipelines.
- Created Helm Charts for different services, streamlining their deployment to Kubernetes clusters.
- Wrote unit and integration test cases for various services.
- Participated in on-call SRE rotations for maintaining production environments, handling incidents and ensuring smooth operations.
- Provided platform training to new team members to facilitate their onboarding and knowledge transfer.
Employee Health Monitoring App
An internal project aimed at monitoring the post-COVID health status of employees. The project revolved around a web application with a React.js front-end and a Serverless Azure Functions back-end, utilizing HTTP Triggers.
- Implemented Azure Functions using JavaScript to expose endpoints for various functionalities, such as user authentication, data validation, and storage integration.
- Wrote unit tests for the Azure Functions using Jest testing framework.