About

Zareef Ahmed is a highly skilled Cloud Architect and Consultant with over 15 years of experience in programming and DevOps. He specializes in Cloud migration and implementation on AWS, Google Cloud (GCP), and Microsoft Azure, and is available for solution architecting, coaching, and training for cloud platforms along with DevOps tools like Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, etc. Zareef's strengths lie in deployment management and continuous integration, and he has a lot of experience in server management tasks with lots of automation. Zareef is biased in favor of open source technologies, although he knows many proprietary technologies. He has expertise in PHP, Java, Perl, Ruby, and Python, and has used DB abstraction a lot for database operation. His approach helps him a lot in his journey with No-SQL databases like MongoDB. Zareef has used frameworks/CMS like Zend, CakePHP, CodeIgniter, Symfony, Drupal, and Magento, and has led teams for web, mobile (iOS/Android), and desktop applications. Zareef has extensive experience with Apache, Nginx, DNS, Squid, Load Balancing, Memcache, Redis, and similar technology stacks. He has also worked on Hadoop setup, programming, and job scheduling, and has experience with data analytics using Python and R, as well as advanced Excel. Zareef has managed MySQL/PgSQL/MongoDB servers for clustering and high availability, and has expertise in Linux server management. Currently, Zareef is working as a Sr Solutions Architect at Amazon, and has previously worked as a DevOps and Cloud Architect at 604media and Chief Technology Officer at freeads classifieds ltd. At freeads classifieds ltd, Zareef successfully created technical documents along with business rules identification based on code reading. He also lifted and shifted the product to Cloud from legacy data service and achieved a complete responsive website to support a large number of devices of different sizes. Zareef holds a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in IT from Sikkim Manipal Distance Education and a Certificate Course in Computers from Apex Computer Institute. He has expertise in a wide range of technologies, including AWS, Azure, GCP, DevOps, MongoDB, Jenkins, Docker, PHP, MySQL, SQL, Hadoop, Python, MemCache, Mobile, Ansible, Redis, iOS, CI/CD, Big Data, Kubernetes, Integration, Ruby, Java, Elastic Search, and