# Muhammad R. > Senior DevOps Consultant | AWS • CI/CD • Terraform | I help teams build and scale cloud infrastructure | 3x AWS Certified Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/muhammadr I help engineering teams build reliable cloud infrastructure and ship faster. Whether you're migrating to AWS, struggling with slow deployments, or watching your cloud bill climb — I've seen it before and can help you fix it. What I do: → Cloud Architecture — Design and build AWS environments from scratch → CI/CD Pipelines — Automate deployments so your team ships daily, not monthly → Infrastructure as Code — Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK done right → Cost Optimization — Find the "ghost infrastructure" eating your budget → Team Enablement — Help your engineers understand and own their cloud Recent results: • Cut a client's AWS bill by 50% ($30K annual savings) • Reduced deployment time from hours to minutes with automated pipelines • Migrated legacy infrastructure to IaC, eliminating manual drift Background: • 5+ years in cloud infrastructure and DevOps • 3x AWS Certified (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, Cloud Practitioner) • Worked with startups and enterprises across fintech, e-commerce, and SaaS Not sure where to start? Let's talk. 📅 Free 30-min consultation: calendly.com/muhammad-07/30-minute-meeting ## Work Experience ### Full Stack Engineer @ New Frontier Data Jan 2024 – Present | Washington DC-Baltimore Area - Working with Big Data, and Building Web APIs ### Senior DevOps Consultant @ Freelance | Self-Employed Jan 2024 – Present | New York, United States DevOps Engineer specializing in AWS cloud infrastructures and backend development. I am an expert in designing, building, and maintaining highly scalable server-side solutions with a strong focus on efficiency and industry best practices. CORE TECHNICAL SKILLS • Backend Development: Java, Python, JavaScript | Spring Boot, Express.js, Flask, Django • Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MariaDB, Redis • API Development: RESTful architecture and integration AWS & DEVOPS • AWS Services: ECS, EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS • Infrastructure as Code: CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Terraform • Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, ECS, ECR, EKS • CI/CD: GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD • Serverless: AWS Lambda, Step Functions • Monitoring & Observability: AWS CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus KEY ACHIEVEMENTS: 1. Modernized deployment processes by implementing Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines with Docker integration, significantly reducing deployment time. 2. Redesigned AWS architecture using Terraform, implementing robust security measures and best practices. 3. Developed cost optimization solutions through resource analysis scripts, identifying and implementing significant cost-saving opportunities ### Software Engineer (BuySide) @ FlexTrade Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Great Neck, New York, United States • Provided daily live support and troubleshooting for trading systems, strategies, and market data issues • Analyzed and resolved application issues thereby improving client satisfaction by 30% and reduction in backlog services by 40% • Developed automation scripts in python enhancing team efficiency, therefore resulting in less manual work • Handled client relations for multiple hedge fund clients with assets under management (AUM) exceeding $1 billion • On-boarded several brokers, including CITI, JPM, Arcesium, and others, for our hedge fund clients onto our OMS. • Analyzed and created reports using SQL and Pandas scrutinizing trade discrepancies for clients. • Trained new employees on OMS domain expertise and support standards, increasing team performance • Developed custom features using Scala into our OMS based on client requirements ### Professional Services - Application Developer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS) Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | New York City Metropolitan Area • Migrated Cloudformation resources onto Cloudformation Registry using Java, enabling seamless 3rd party integration with Cloudformation. • Significantly contributed to the successful migration of high-volume AWS resources including AWSCodeDeployApplication, EC2Volume, and IAMInstanceProfile, which are currently utilized by millions of customers. • Streamlined project documentation, reducing onboarding time from 3 months to just 1 month, enabling faster developer onboarding and project ramp-up. • Implemented automation scripts that significantly reduced deployment efforts, automated tedious tasks, and streamlined the deployment process, resulting in a notable decrease in manual efforts. • Successfully led a team of six developers as a tenured consultant on the project, overseeing the seamless migration of High Usage CloudFormation resources onto CloudFormation Registry such as Lamba Resource , and EC2 Resources. • Apart from my customer work, I also mentored new hires on the team, enabling them to quickly ramp up their skills and contribute effectively to different customer projects. ### Professional Services - Associate DevOps Consultant @ Amazon Web Services (AWS) Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | New York City Metropolitan Area • Collaborated with an external customer to rewrite AWS CDK constructs from Python to TypeScript • Leveraged JSII to convert CDK Constructs to other languages, including C and Java, making it easier for the customer to use AWS CDK. Specifically, I rewrote the custom AWS RDS python construct in TypeScript, and then used JSII to convert it to Java and C, significantly reducing deployment times for the customer’s DBA teams from weeks to minutes. • Implemented CICD pipelines for the customer, reducing manual deployment efforts and streamlining the deployment process and also developed a Github Actions Template repository helping developers to setup their own CI/CD when deploying applications. • Our automation efforts resulted in a significant reduction in manual effort • Also Led Weekly Team meetings increasing team engagement while working remotely ### Professional Services Intern @ Amazon Web Services (AWS) Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Chicago, Illinois, United States • Collaborated with an external customer to write Cloudformation templates, enabling them to provision their infrastructure through IaC while minimizing manual effort and saving them time. • Led the development of a proof-of-concept internal communication handbook using VueJS as the primary developed. • Assisted my team in calculating migration costs for an external customer. ### Innovation Intern @ HSBC Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | New York City Metropolitan Area • At HSBC I worked as an Innovation Intern within Financial Crime Risk team where I supported several projects. • While working as an intern at HSBC. I developed a text classification model,wrote a news scraper tool and RPA solution. • As an intern I wrote a multi-label text classification model that classified news articles into different risk categories. I was able to achieve to atleast 50% accuracy since we had limited data. • I also developed a flask based web application that allowed to query custom news feed which catered auditors need and it also provided with articles and their summaries. • I also developed a feature that allowed auditors to export custom newsfeed with article summaries into csv file for further data analysis. • Furthermore, news scraper tool also provided with news publications from different regulators such as CFPB,OCC,FED and etc into a pdf report for auditors. • Lastly I developed RPA solution that performed account reconciliation. This was a huge thing since it was able to save the time as process was done manually taking atleast 3 days. • While working at HSBC I was able to gain knowledge about machine learning and how auditing worked especially within financial crime risk space. ### Tech Incubator Staff @ Queens College Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Flushing, New York Provide technical support to incubator member companies and external clients; Provide technology training and support to incubator interns; Work with the project manager and project teams to prototype and implement technology solutions; ### Software Engineering Intern @ JPMorgan Chase & Co. Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Chicago Area • During my time at JPMC I took over several tasks such as adding new features to an existing application and Deployment of machine-learning models. • As intern I worked on adding new features to an existing search engine application that was used to index production issues. The application stack was based on SpringBoot,Angular for frontend and MariaDB. • I also deployed machine learning models on Kubernetes that tagged production issues in the application. • Wrote a simple feature that sent out deployment email notifications. • During my time as intern I also volunteered on different projects such as doing explanatory data analysis of production issues for the upper management to help them understand the most occurring issues in the production environment. ### Software Engineer Intern @ City University of New York Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area Implemented new features in existing Django web app. Wrote unit tests for various testcases. Wrote Python scripts to automate workflow such as creating database backups. Wrote Excel VBA Scripts to automate reporting. ### Ecommerce Intern @ Mel09 Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | New York, New York Helped the company to establish an e commerce website Assisted in managing inventories for Amazon FBA Developed SEO strategies to boost up the sales Developed Email Marketing Campaigns Described product to customers and accurately explained details and care of merchandise. ### Campus Representative @ WayUp Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | New York, New York Created effective messaging using language, graphics and marketing collateral. Used different marketing strategies to attract students to signup for the website using social media. developed online marketing campaigns to generate sign ups ### Studio Intern @ Alice & Trixie Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Greater New York City Area Managed and updated inventories using Microsoft Excel Managed Shopify Performed various tasks such as answering phone calls and shipping their shipments Gained essential knowledge of working in fashion field. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science Queens College Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/muhammad-raza-07 - Website: https://muhammadraza.me --- Source: https://flows.cv/muhammadr JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/muhammadr/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01