faraz@cloud-ops:~$ whoami

Muhammad
Faraz

Cloud & Infrastructure Operations Engineer — production VMware, AWS migrations & monitoring at Quantum Ronics, Ministry of Defence

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20+
Production VMs
10TB+
Migrated to AWS
99.9%
Uptime
4
ESXi Hosts
faraz@mgn ~ aws mgn start-cutover --ids srv-prod-001
✓ 600GB VM cutover complete. Instance healthy.
faraz@tf ~ terraform apply -auto-approve
✓ 12 added, 0 destroyed. Infrastructure ready.
faraz@prom ~ promtool check config prometheus.yml
✓ 0 alerts firing. All 20 nodes reporting.
// work experience

Where I've built things

Quantum Ronics — Ministry of Defence, Pakistan
Cloud & Infrastructure Operations Intern
03/2026 – Present
Islamabad, Pakistan
  • Managed 4 VMware ESXi hosts and 20+ production VMs — provisioning, backups, live migrations, and troubleshooting — maintaining 99.9% uptime across the facility.
  • Planned and executed 10TB+ local data migrations and VM transfers across network servers; migrated 600+GB production VM to AWS via Application Migration Service (MGN).
  • Executed secure cross-account encrypted AMI migrations and resolved complex AWS KMS permission chain issues.
  • Operated 2 OpenStack private cloud servers; managed VM provisioning and day-to-day instance management.
  • Configured NVIDIA A100 GPU passthrough with CUDA support for AI/ML production workloads on bare-metal.
  • Built real-time infrastructure monitoring & alerting dashboards with Prometheus and Grafana.
  • Deployed OpenVPN gateways for secure remote team access; automated user provisioning via Bash scripts.
  • Installed Dell PowerEdge and H3C enterprise servers from scratch with hardware RAID; managed data center cabling and rack setups.
Infusible Coders Pvt Ltd
Web Developer Intern
12/2023 – 03/2024
Kohat, Pakistan
  • Developed full-stack MERN applications and integrated production-ready REST APIs with JWT authentication and RBAC.
  • Containerized microservices using Docker for consistent development and deployment environments.
  • Collaborated with engineering teams using structured Git/GitHub workflows and branch management.
// technical stack

The stack

☁ AWS Cloud
EC2S3RDSAuroraIAMVPCALBAuto ScalingCloudFrontMGNTransit GatewayKMSECS FargateECRCloudWatchWAFRoute 53
🔧 Infrastructure & Virtualization
VMware ESXi 7/8vCenter 8OpenStackHardware RAIDDell PowerEdgeH3C ServersGPU PassthroughNVIDIA A100CUDA
📦 Containers & IaC
DockerDocker ComposeKubernetesTerraformTerraform ModulesState ManagementDynamic AMI
📊 CI/CD & Monitoring
PrometheusGrafanaCloudWatchGitHub ActionsGitBash Scripting
🌐 Networking & Security
VPC DesignTransit GatewayVPC PeeringNACLsSecurity GroupsOpenVPNTailscaleTCP/IPVLANOSPFActive Directory
🐧 Systems & Dev
Ubuntu LinuxRocky LinuxWindows ServerSSHJavaScriptNode.jsExpress.jsMongoDBReact.js
// labs & projects

What I've deployed

⚖️
Legal Sphere – Lawyer Management System

Full-stack MERN FYP containerized and deployed on AWS ECS Fargate with ECR, custom VPC, IAM, Auto Scaling, secrets management, and GitHub Actions CI/CD. Monitored with Prometheus & Grafana.

MERNECS FargateECRDockerGitHub ActionsPrometheus
🏗️
Three-Tier AWS Architecture

Production 3-tier topology: 1 public + 3 private subnets, IGW, NAT, Public ALB, Frontend EC2, Private ALB, Backend EC2, MongoDB. AWS WAF with managed rules on Public ALB.

VPCALBAWS WAFNAT GatewayDockerMongoDB
🔗
Multi-VPC Connectivity

Interconnected 4 VPCs using AWS Transit Gateway for scalable multi-VPC networking. Validated routing boundaries with VPC Peering, Security Groups, and NACLs.

Transit GatewayVPC PeeringNACLsSecurity Groups
🌍
Static Website & Global CDN

High-performance static hosting on S3 with CloudFront global edge caching, Origin Access Control (OAC), and custom Route 53 DNS records.

S3CloudFrontOACRoute 53
⚙️
AWS Infrastructure Automation

Automated scalable EC2 infrastructure using reusable Terraform modules with dynamic AMI lookup, Elastic IP, Security Groups, variables and outputs.

TerraformEC2Elastic IPDynamic AMI
🗄️
RDS & Aurora Deployment Lab

Deployed AWS RDS and Aurora instances inside isolated private subnets with security group rules, subnet group configurations and backup retention.

RDSAuroraPrivate SubnetsSecurity Groups
// credentials

Certs & Training

☁️
AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials
Amazon Web Services
🚀
DevOps Mastery
KodeKloud
🎩
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Fundamentals
Red Hat / Coursera
🔗
CCNA — VLANs, Routing, Subnetting
Cyberwing Institute, Lahore
🌐
Computer Networks & Network Security
IBM / Coursera
🎯
AWS Solutions Architect Associate SAA-C03
In Progress
🎓
Kohat University of Science and Technology
BS Computer Science
2021 – 2025 · Kohat, Pakistan

Let's work
together

Open to cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and SRE roles. Real hands-on production experience — not just certs. Based in Islamabad, Pakistan.

Send an email
✉️ faraz.csdev@gmail.com 📞 +92 344 9260254 💼 linkedin.com/in/muhammad-faraz-03042002f 🐙 github.com/farazAhmed03 🌐 farazahmed03.github.io