cv.json

{
  "basics": {
    "name": "Hamza Masood",
    "label": "DevOps Engineer",
    "image": "/me.jpeg",
    "url": "https://www.hamzamasood.dev",
    "summary": "I specialize in Cloud-Native and Kubernetes. I’m also a Free/Open source enthusiast. My favorite topics are DevOps transformation, automation, data, and metrics.",
    "theme": "default",
    "location": {
      "city": "Dublin",
      "countryCode": "IE",
      "region": "Ireland"
    },
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        "username": "hamza-m-masood",
        "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/hamza-m-masood/"
      },
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        "network": "GitHub",
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    {
      "name": "Camunda",
      "position": "DevOps Engineer",
      "location_type": "Remote",
      "location": "Dublin, Ireland",
      "url": "https://camunda.com/",
      "startDate": "2023-09-15",
      "endDate": null,
      "summary": "Develop Helm Charts to manage the Camunda 8 applications stack for our self-managed offering and provide third level support for customers for self-managed installation",
      "responsibilities": [
        "Introduced multiple operators in the CI in order to make processes more efficient",
        "Developed helm chart configurations to connect to external Elasticsearch and OpenSearch",
        "Generated Markdown from values.yaml to save time from not doing manual processes",
        "Pioneered the multi-region setup of Camunda self-managed deployment",
        "Simplified running Camunda Helm Chart on OpenShift",
        "Made multiple contributions to the official documentation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Portworx Pure Storage",
      "position": "Cloud Engineer",
      "location_type": "Hybrid",
      "location": "Dublin, Ireland",
      "url": "https://portworx.com/",
      "startDate": "2022-09-15",
      "endDate": "2023-09-15",
      "responsibilities": [
        "Created various internal Terraform automations to enable technical support engineers to quickly replicate customer environments and replicate issues.",
        "Solved various customer issues relating to NFS, storage, kubernetes, and cloud technologies.",
        "Supported various customers to install and deploy Portworx on their production environment to enable them to effectively use the produce.",
        "Held multiple workshops and knowledge transfer sessions both internally and externally related to stateful kubernetes workloads",
        "Set up various internal labs related to Portworx Disaster Recovery cluster replication, using async and sync data replication."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "SAP Signavio Business Model Bridge",
      "position": "DevOps Engineer",
      "location_type": "Hybrid",
      "location": "Dublin, Ireland",
      "url": "https://www.signavio.com/",
      "startDate": "2021-09-15",
      "endDate": "2022-09-15",
      "responsibilities": [
        "Designed and implemented the entire CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins for the developers to use.",
        "Implemented various security policies that conform to SAP standards.",
        "Implemented various OPA policies and other tools to aid deployment which in turn saved ~40% of development time.",
        "Onboarded and mentored other team members. Gave talks to wider SAP Signavio on our CI/CD pipeline and devops practices.",
        "Automated the provisioning of multitenancy provider accounts in SAP BTP and deployed using containers on Kubernetes.",
        "Spearheaded the Agile DevOps design, development, testing, and release of 30 new microservices.",
        "Implemented various observability tools for logging, metrics and tracing to help developers debug problems that customers were facing. (Prometheus, Dynatrace, Loki, Grafana, Jaeger).",
        "Led incident response and provided hands-on troubleshooting during service interruptions."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "SAP",
      "position": "Full Stack Software Engineer",
      "location_type": "Hybrid",
      "location": "Dublin, Ireland",
      "url": "https://www.sap.com/",
      "startDate": "2020-09-15",
      "endDate": "2021-09-15",
      "responsibilities": [
        "Developed and maintained microservices that were deployed on SAP Kyma.",
        "Contributed to SAP Kyma CNCF closed source repository.",
        "Contributed to SAP Cloud Application Programming model which enabled our team to develop cloud applications in an easier manner.",
        "Developed various Grafana views created from in-house SAP Hana Prometheus exporter.",
        "Developed and maintained a 7 step process to onboard new contract users to theirrespective teams. This process takes 30+ minutes to execute manually. It now takes less than 5 minutes with the new automation.",
        "Developed and maintained 100% mastery of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and deployment pipeline",
        "Analysis of operating systems, hardware capacity, database and SAP applications to ensure optimal performance.",
        "Performed CQC service such as Go-live analysis",
        "Development Lead for an Internal Quiz/Survey application developed using SAP UI5."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "volunteer": [
    {
      "organization": "Local Coding Club",
      "position": "Volunteer",
      "url": "https://codingclub.com/",
      "startDate": "2021-01-01",
      "endDate": "2022-01-01",
      "summary": "Helped organize coding workshops and mentored new members.",
      "highlights": ["Awarded 'Volunteer of the Month'"]
    }
  ],
  "education": [
    {
      "institution": "Technological University Dublin",
      "url": "https://www.tudublin.ie/study/undergraduate/courses/business-computing-tu914/",
      "area": "Business Computing",
      "studyType": "Bachelor",
      "startDate": "2016-09-01",
      "endDate": "2020-05-01",
      "score": "4.0"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "name": "certified kubernetes application developer",
      "date": "2023-05-01",
      "issuer": "Linux Academy",
      "url": "https://www.credly.com/badges/577c9626-4c0e-487c-ab0a-e58d6796eb36/linked_in_profile"
    },
    {
      "name": "Certified Kubernetes Administrator",
      "date": "2022-12-01",
      "issuer": "Linux Academy",
      "url": "https://www.credly.com/badges/497f7885-f2a9-416a-9be5-941472e87533/linked_in_profile"
    },
    {
      "name": "Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist",
      "date": "2022-12-01",
      "issuer": "Linux Academy",
      "url": "https://www.credly.com/badges/456daaa6-fa02-4513-93c5-1d8a5614774d/linked_in_profile"
    },
    {
      "name": "Portworx Enterprise Professional",
      "date": "2023-12-01",
      "issuer": "Pure Storage",
      "url": "https://www.credly.com/badges/6211546e-d857-4faa-9e51-003d596c7137/linked_in_profile"
    },
    {
      "name": "AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner",
      "date": "2023-12-01",
      "issuer": "Pure Storage",
      "url": "https://www.credly.com/badges/7cfaa509-a9cb-49d8-9551-d4563187df6d/linked_in_profile"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "name": "Kubernetes",
      "level": "Expert",
      "keywords": ["Design", "UI"]
    },
    {
      "name": "GCP",
      "level": "Intermediate",
      "keywords": ["Version Control", "Collaboration", "Source Code"]
    },
    {
      "name": "Kustomize",
      "level": "Intermediate",
      "keywords": ["Web Development", "Frontend"]
    },
    {
      "name": "Azure",
      "level": "Intermediate",
      "keywords": ["Web Development", "Frontend", "Responsive Design"]
    },
    {
      "name": "JavaScript",
      "level": "Intermediate",
      "keywords": ["Web Development", "Frontend", "Backend", "Fullstack"]
    },
    {
      "name": "Tailwind",
      "level": "Intermediate",
      "keywords": [
        "Web Development",
        "Frontend",
        "CSS Framework",
        "Responsive Design"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "TypeScript",
      "level": "Intermediate",
      "keywords": [
        "Web Development",
        "Frontend",
        "Backend",
        "JavaScript Superset"
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    },
    {
      "name": "Node",
      "level": "Intermediate",
      "keywords": ["Web Development", "Backend", "JavaScript", "Server"]
    },
    {
      "name": "MySQL",
      "level": "Intermediate",
      "keywords": ["Databases", "SQL", "Data Storage", "Backend"]
    },
    {
      "name": "Git",
      "level": "Intermediate",
      "keywords": ["Version Control", "Collaboration", "Source Code"]
    },
    {
      "name": "Openshift",
      "level": "Intermediate",
      "keywords": ["Version Control", "Collaboration", "Source Code", "Git"]
    },
    {
      "name": "Helm",
      "level": "Beginner",
      "keywords": [
        "Web Development",
        "Frontend",
        "React Framework",
        "SSR",
        "Static Generation"
      ]
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    {
      "name": "Argo",
      "level": "Intermediate",
      "keywords": [
        "Web Development",
        "Frontend",
        "React Framework",
        "SSR",
        "Static Generation"
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    {
      "name": "Crossplane",
      "level": "Intermediate",
      "keywords": [
        "Web Development",
        "Frontend",
        "React Framework",
        "SSR",
        "Static Generation"
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    },
    {
      "name": "Docker",
      "level": "Intermediate",
      "keywords": [
        "Web Development",
        "Frontend",
        "React Framework",
        "SSR",
        "Static Generation"
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    },
    {
      "name": "Golang",
      "level": "Intermediate",
      "keywords": [
        "Web Development",
        "Frontend",
        "React Framework",
        "SSR",
        "Static Generation"
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    {
      "name": "Python",
      "level": "Intermediate",
      "keywords": [
        "Web Development",
        "Frontend",
        "React Framework",
        "SSR",
        "Static Generation"
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    {
      "name": "Prometheus",
      "level": "Intermediate",
      "keywords": [
        "Web Development",
        "Frontend",
        "React Framework",
        "SSR",
        "Static Generation"
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    {
      "name": "Terraform",
      "level": "Intermediate",
      "keywords": [
        "Web Development",
        "Frontend",
        "React Framework",
        "SSR",
        "Static Generation"
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    {
      "name": "Jenkins",
      "level": "Intermediate",
      "keywords": [
        "Web Development",
        "Frontend",
        "React Framework",
        "SSR",
        "Static Generation"
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    {
      "name": "Bash",
      "level": "Intermediate",
      "keywords": [
        "Web Development",
        "Frontend",
        "React Framework",
        "SSR",
        "Static Generation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Linux",
      "level": "Intermediate",
      "keywords": [
        "Web Development",
        "Frontend",
        "React Framework",
        "SSR",
        "Static Generation"
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    },
    {
      "name": "React",
      "level": "Intermediate",
      "keywords": ["Web Development", "Frontend", "JavaScript Library", "UI"]
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  "languages": [
    {
      "language": "English",
      "fluency": "Native speaker"
    },
    {
      "language": "Arabic",
      "fluency": "Beginner"
    },
    {
      "language": "Hindi",
      "fluency": "Intermediate"
    }
  ],
  "interests": [
    {
      "name": "Technology",
      "keywords": ["AI", "Blockchain"]
    }
  ],
  "references": [
    {
      "name": "Jane Smith",
      "reference": "Reference…"
    }
  ],
  "projects": [
    {
      "name": "Cooking App",
      "isActive": true,
      "description": "A full stack cooking app with a Go backend!",
      "highlights": [
        "Built with golang, mongoDB and React",
        "It has extra security features like Auth0",
        "it can also run on kubernerets with the use of the Portworx yaml"
      ],
      "url": "https://github.com/hamza-m-masood/cooking-app",
      "github": "https://github.com/hamza-m-masood/cooking-app"
    },
    {
      "name": "Golang to do list",
      "isActive": true,
      "description": "A simple to do list in Go",
      "highlights": ["Create", "Read", "Update", "Delete"],
      "url": "https://github.com/hamza-m-masood/golang-todolist"
    }
  ],
  "blogs": [
    {
      "name": "Why Is Concurrency Hard?",
      "isActive": true,
      "description": "Sharing the many pitfalls of concurrency and how go may remedeate some of these challenges",
      "highlights": [
        "Race Conditions, Atomicity",
        "Starvation, Livelock and many more..."
      ],
      "url": "https://hamzamasood.dev/blog/why-is-concurrency-hard/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Functions in Go",
      "isActive": true,
      "description": "Sharing how functions work in Go",
      "highlights": ["Pass by value", "Pointers and more.."],
      "url": "https://hamzamasood.dev/blog/functions-in-go/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Docker Overview",
      "isActive": true,
      "description": "An introduction to Docker for complete beginners",
      "highlights": ["What can it do?", "How can it run?"],
      "url": "https://hamzamasood.dev/blog/docker-overview/"
    },
    {
      "name": "File i/o in Go",
      "isActive": true,
      "description": "Understanding file handling in Go",
      "highlights": ["Printing contens of files", "Misc file commands"],
      "url": "https://hamzamasood.dev/blog/file-io-in-go/"
    }
  ]
}