About

Zaid Shaikh is a competent Dev-Ops Engineer with over 7 years of experience in optimizing technical processes, digital transformation, and adapting cloud solutions and migrations. Currently, he is working as a Senior Software Engineer at Connectwise, where he is responsible for developing cloud platforms, Dev-Ops, and CI/CD automation. Zaid has previously worked as a Senior DevOps Engineer at Purplle.com, where he managed multiple projects in GCP with all resources, including the billing process. He also used monitoring and debugging for API with the New-Relic tool and worked on Kubernetes Cluster with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Kubernetes YAML configuration for deployment and service, Terraform Project for storing remote state in storage, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and infrastructure as code. Zaid has experience in EC2 dynamic inventory with Ansible, containerization, and container orchestration for microservices with Docker and Kubernetes. He also has experience in website and web application troubleshooting, discovering unpublished directories and files associated, exploiting file upload vulnerabilities, exploiting SQL injections to find databases, tables, and sensitive data such as usernames, passwords, and more. Before joining Purplle.com, Zaid worked as a System Administrator at Sanda Group, where he worked on Amazon (AWS) EC2 servers to manage multiple servers. He created new instances, created security groups, server snapshots, S3 bucket storage, new HDD attaches-detach to servers, and more. He also monitored and configured and troubleshooted on Centos and Ubuntu for various servers, including API servers with Apache module and SSL certificates, MySQL and slave server, Postgre server, Ejab server for mass messaging, Owncloud with online Collabora, EPX, Asterisk server for internal communication, DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 server, and more. Zaid holds a Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) degree in Information Technology from the University of Mumbai. He has a strong technical background and is skilled in software engineering, DevOps, CI/CD, SQL, Kubernetes, GCP, Ansible, Docker, MySQL, microservices, integration, web, infra, and AWS. With relevant experience of 6.69 years, Zaid is an asset to any organization that he works for.