Hassnat Ahmad

Senior Cloud, DevSecOps & Automation Engineer

๐Ÿ“ Stuttgart, Germany

$ cat about.txt

I love to automate everything if possible to do so.

Senior Cloud & DevSecOps Engineer with extensive experience architecting and engineering secure, scalable, cloud-native platforms across AWS, GCP, and Azure. Specialized in cloud security posture management (CSPM), DevSecOps pipelines, infrastructure as code, and building self-service developer platforms that enable teams to ship faster with confidence.

Deep expertise in container orchestration (Kubernetes), infrastructure automation (Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD), service mesh architectures (Istio), cloud security (Wiz, Lacework, Prisma Cloud), and implementing comprehensive observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo).

Passionate about shifting security left, building resilient systems with defense in depth, reducing toil through automation, and fostering a culture of security-first operational excellence.

$ kubectl get expertise --all-namespaces

๐Ÿ—๏ธ Platform Engineering

Designing and implementing internal developer platforms (IDPs) with self-service capabilities, golden paths, and automated scaffolding. Focus on developer experience and productivity.

โ˜ธ๏ธ Cloud-Native Architecture

Multi-cluster Kubernetes deployments, service mesh (Istio/Linkerd), container orchestration, and microservices architecture patterns for high-scale distributed systems.

๐Ÿ”„ GitOps & CI/CD

Implementing GitOps workflows with ArgoCD/Flux, designing CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins), and establishing deployment strategies (canary, blue-green, progressive delivery).

๐Ÿ“Š Observability & SRE

Building comprehensive observability stacks, defining SLIs/SLOs/SLAs, implementing monitoring, alerting, and distributed tracing. Focus on MTTR reduction and incident response.

๐Ÿ” Cloud Security & DevSecOps

Cloud security posture management (Wiz, Lacework, Prisma Cloud), vulnerability scanning (Trivy, Snyk, Checkov), runtime security (Falco), RBAC/ABAC policies, secrets management (Vault, External Secrets), network policies, and compliance automation (CIS benchmarks, PCI-DSS, SOC 2).

โšก Infrastructure as Code

Multi-cloud infrastructure automation with Terraform, Pulumi, and CloudFormation. Modular, reusable infrastructure patterns with comprehensive testing and validation.

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Cloud Platforms

โ˜๏ธ AWS (EKS, EC2, Lambda, RDS)
โ˜๏ธ GCP (GKE, Compute, Cloud Run)
โ˜๏ธ Azure (AKS, VMs, Functions)

Container & Orchestration

โ˜ธ๏ธ Kubernetes
๐Ÿณ Docker
โŽˆ Helm
๐Ÿ“ฆ Kustomize
๐Ÿ”ง Istio / Linkerd

Infrastructure as Code

๐Ÿ—๏ธ Terraform
๐Ÿ“œ Ansible
โ˜๏ธ CloudFormation
๐Ÿ’Ž Pulumi

GitOps & CI/CD

๐Ÿ”„ ArgoCD
๐ŸŒŠ Flux
โšก GitHub Actions
๐ŸฆŠ GitLab CI
๐Ÿ”จ Jenkins

Observability & Monitoring

๐Ÿ“Š Prometheus
๐Ÿ“ˆ Grafana
๐Ÿ“‹ Loki
๐Ÿ” Tempo / Jaeger
๐Ÿ“ก ELK Stack

Programming & Scripting

๐Ÿ Python
๐Ÿ”ต Go
๐Ÿ’š Node.js
๐Ÿš Bash / Shell

Security, DevSecOps & Secrets Management

๐Ÿ” HashiCorp Vault
๐Ÿ”‘ External Secrets Operator
๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ OPA / Gatekeeper
๐Ÿ”’ Cert-Manager
๐Ÿ” Trivy / Aqua Security
๐Ÿฆ… Falco
๐Ÿ› Snyk
๐Ÿ” SOPS
๐ŸŒ Network Policies
๐Ÿ“‹ Kyverno
๐Ÿ” RBAC / ABAC
๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ SonarQube
โ˜๏ธ Wiz
๐Ÿ”ญ Lacework
๐Ÿฐ Prisma Cloud
๐Ÿ”ฌ Checkov
$ cat philosophy.md

Engineering Philosophy

  • Automate Everything: If you do it more than twice, automate it. Reduce toil, increase reliability.
  • Infrastructure as Code: Version control your infrastructure. Make it reproducible, testable, and auditable.
  • Observability First: You can't fix what you can't see. Build comprehensive observability from day one.
  • Security by Design: Security is not an afterthought. Shift left and embed security in every layer.
  • Fail Fast, Recover Faster: Design for failure. Implement chaos engineering and automated recovery.
  • Developer Experience Matters: Happy developers are productive developers. Build platforms they love to use.
  • Continuous Learning: Technology evolves rapidly. Stay curious, experiment, and share knowledge.
$ cat contact.txt
"Infrastructure as code isn't just automationโ€”it's the foundation of resilient, scalable, and self-healing platforms that empower teams to innovate without limits."
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