Who am I ?
An Engineering Manager, Software Architect, and a Cloud Native Development Expert
Personal Info
- email iam@arslanali.io
- phone : +1 301 7414 229
- skype ansaries
My Expertise
Cloud Native Designs
Microservices, serverless, CICD, TDD, DDD etc.
Application Development
Web, Mobile, Desktop, IoT and more...
Technology Evangelism
Servant leadership, knowledge sharing, writing and more...
Resume
Work History
Director Cloud and Emerging Technologies
Low Code Solutions FzCo
- 1. Design and Architecture of Cloud Native PR/DR OpenShift Multi Cluster Solutions.
- Upgraded Legacy COTS VM based Applications running in 5 Environments.
- Lift and Shift Legacy COTS Applications from VM to OpenShift.
- Implemented GitOps for Infrastructure Deployments and Continuous Delivery.
- Integrated Jenkins Pipelines for Continuous Container Delivery.
- Implemented mTLS and Inter-Pod Comms Security to establish Zero-Trust.
- Cluster Hardening by Implementing 4 Cs Principles, Code, Container, Cluster and Cloud.
- Deployment of ELK Stack for Observability and Monitoring.
- Deployment of Strategic Applications as a Corporate Capability e.g: Kafka and Elastic Search
- Implementation of Distributed Clusters to achieve Active-Standby and Active-Passive DR Capability.
- Record RPO of less than 500ms and RTO of less than 10min.
Engineering Manager
Kaiops.io
- I started off with designing and architecting the SaaS infrastructure.
- Rolled-out an MVP in less than 2 months with the help of an enthusiastic team and also by utilizing the enterprise SaaS modules and boilerplates I developed over the years.
- Implemented the overall hiring and onboarding process for the engineering team members which include; the creation of JDs, Posting Ads on Portals, initial screening through automated test platforms, Interviewing, onboarding and training, etc.
- Implemented formal Agile Practices through sprint planning, daily scrums, and sprint review meetings
- Facilitated the founders in Market Analysis, Forecasted Financials, competitors metrics, and even monetization plan.
- Conducted Live Demos to customers/potential partners and was involved in most of the Investor Pitches.
- Created a mono-repo using NRWL for hosting multiple microservices, different reusable libraries, and other third-party modules.
- Developed CICD pipelines for multiple environments, implemented caching, and automation, and managed application configs/secrets on Gitlab while integrating GKE and Amazon EKS. This brings us to less than 15min of release cycle time.
- Created many UI Features, and Dashboard widgets using AngularV13 and D3 Engines.
- Improved frequent DB and interservice grpc calls response by 660% by developing a custom multi- layer caching engine.
- Designed and Developed Optimized Storage Engine which helped save only the essential time- series telemetry data and even optimize and aggregate the data over time resulting in improving 10x Storage space and 3x IOPs improvement.
- Written multiple Code Generators, that helped teams generate multi-language standardized code in minutes which otherwise could have taken days.
- Created 100s of Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm manifests to help deploy Kaiops Microservices and also to deploy agent services on customer clusters.
- Developed Application wide Dynamic Audit Log by creating custom Typescript Decorators in Nestjs.
Engineering Manager
GoBoilerQuotes.com
- Technical review of Corporate plan and help create effective and efficient Go To Market strategy.
- Planning, designing & deploying Engineering policies and standards. Implementing code & development, CICD, testing, quality assurance and security standards ensuring effective delivery procedures
- Leading Cloud Native Microservices Architecture, leveraging the AWS AKS/GKE infrastructure to host and orchestrate distributed microservices on hosted Kubernetes Engine.
- Creating Microservices Development Architecture based on Nodejs, Dot Net and Spring Frameworks.
- Developing Boilerplate Microservices Projects to help take the development process off the ground for the Development teams using following Technology Stack:
- Event Sourcing, Caching, Message Queue using Redis
- Image and File Storage at AWS S3, MongoDB and Postgres SQL
- Frameworks stack contain and not limited to Nestjs, Dot Net, Spring, Angular, Nrwl, Typescript, Express, Fastify, GRPC, Nest Cloud etc.
- Deployment and Containerization is done using Docker and Helm for Kubernetes
- CICD using Gitlab Gitops
- Automation and Deployment Scripts/Manifests using Bash and Yaml
- Designing and developing 4 different levels of Caches using different caching algorithms to make the Application extremely fast in creating First Contentful Paint, First Full Load, Subsequent Loads, API Caching on both Server and Client Side.
- Projecting Lazy Loading at Component Level using Angular’s new Ivy Engine capabilities and designed a Fully Customizable Modular Widget/Component based Page loading algorithm.
- Leading and implementing RBAC, OAuth and JWT based Microservice for handling Authentication and Permissions.
- Creating Notification Microservice using Event Sourcing while integrating it with Amazon SES, SNS, Firebase Messaging and Message Bird.
- Building Worker Microservices for handling IO and other processing tasks while keeping the front-end Microservices loosely coupled using Redis MQ
- Designing and deploying Payment, Accounting, Billing and other Microservices for keeping the separation of concern and modularity in place.
CTO / Co-Founder
Fixonclick.com
- Managed, hired, trained cross-functional local/remote engineering and customer support teams.
- Designed the MVP to launch initially and later a modular state-of-the-art Software Architecture using Current Edge Technologies which helped updating features and shipping them in minimum possible time.
- Designed Micro Services Architecture to fulfill a 12 Factor Application compliance, which helped developing the features in Sprints with iterations and keeping the separation of concerns.
- Designing Core Services’ Architecture for Users, Monetization, and a real-time Notification Engine.
- Developed the Cloud Deployment Architectures to utilize the containerization and orchestration technologies like Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes and Open Shift etc. to leverage the microservice’ deployments, scaling, monitoring, management and delivery.
- Hands-on experience of developing backend micro-services using Node, Python, Spring and .Net.
- Extensively developed cloud native boilerplates with integrated CI/CD for teams to develop awesome looking font-ends Frameworks like Angular and React and Single Code Base Frameworks for mobile like Flutter.
Planning Director / Co-Founder
Ansari Security Systems
- Created Infrastructure, Security, Audio Visual and Automation Divisions with each one having their own Revenue Streams and which generated a total of 14M AED average yearly revenue.
- Managed multiple Key Accounts and their Projects mainly in Public and Defense Verticals
- Lead and worked closely with the Project Management Teams to develop and deploy professional solutions.
- Formed a formal Contracts Management portfolio to manage long terms contracts.
- Created efficient process for Estimation, Sales Engineering, Specification and Compliance Management.
- Developed an R&D Department to do continuous research and development to always keep our solutions one step ahead of the general market.
- Lead local and remote Engineering Teams for Projects in all over MENA mostly in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman,UAE and multiple countries in Africa.
Software Developer
Kayos Works
- Optimized Query Engine
OQE was an ETL (Extract transform and Loading tool) Developed using Visual C++ (COM/DCOM) for optimization of a health care product named Visual Practice ( www.visualpractice.com ). Visual Practice was originally developed in Visual FoxPro 6.0. The component uses high performance data caching and synchronization mechanism. - Visual Practice 2.0 Enterprise EditionIt was an application with heterogeneous systems architecture; the database is located on a Linux based server which was maintained by PostgreSQL server and the GUI/ front end was developed for Windows platform. The front end of the application was developed in VC#, the middle tier was developed in VC++ .Net and the database is connected through ADO .Net using pgSql (An oledb driver for PostgreSQL).
Education
Bahria University Islamabad Pakistan
Bahria University Islamabad Pakistan
Hours Spent
Kubernetes
JavaScript
Nodejs
MongoDB
Angular
Python
Flutter
React
Dot Net
SQL
DevOps
DevSecOps
Distinguished Aptitude
Team Building
Product Management
Servant Leadership
System Design
Presentation
50%
Development
10%
Integration
30%
Coordination
10%
Knowledge Sharing
Other Projects
CMF (Contract Management Framework)
Nokia Global
Design and Developed a Prototype of Digitization of Contract Management Framework (CMF) which was later developed in-house by Nokia. The product was later recognized by World Commerce and Contracting Association (WCCA) and awarded Nokia Pre-Sales and Contract Management as EMEA Winner of Strategic Direction Award 2020
BI Visualizer
European Stock Exchange
Designed and Developed a microservice-based Prototype for BI, Visualization, Analyses, and Manipulation of Big Data sourcing from Snowflake. Tech Stack consisted Angular, NestJs, Kubernetes, CICD, Helm, MongoDB, D3js and Snowflakes etc. The product was later developed in-house by the company.
European Stock Exchange
Designed and Developed an ETL to source data from Qualys API into Snowflake for BI
Design and Developed multiple high performance, robust, multi-threaded ETL scripts to pull vulnerabilities and hosts detections data from Qualays Api Server using Python, NodeJS and Matillion. The data was then loaded into Snowflake for BI and Visualization.
CallusDoctors.com
Remedial Medical USA
Design and Developed a Patient and Practice Management Web Application for a US Based Health Care Institution. The product was built using Angular and NodeJS using state of the art cloud native architecture.
Neom Digital
Low Code Solutions UAE -- To Date
Designing and Developing the BPM using the state-of-the-art technologies and managing the deployment of most current-edge cloud-native infrastructure for the World's most unusual yet futuristic civilization in making.
I Am Available For mentions, collaborations, and freelance
Industry Recommendations
Arslan is a great technologist and has the ability to Architect/Build robust solutions. He understands business requirements and deliver technical solutions which meet/exceed expectations. He is a great team player and can streamline business processes. I would highly recommend him.
I work with Arslan in different projects for more than 4 years now and in that time I have known Arslan to be a well-grounded and down to earth business partner. He is a calculated risk taker, pragmatic leader and realist who seem to grasp ideas holistically whilst still taking note to the more acute details. I found this to be incredibly valuable in working with him, as it allows him (and for those who work with him) the ability to explore and understand nearly all possible perspectives to an idea and its numerous applications. He is a hard worker and value creator in the truest sense. .I recommends him highly.
Arslan is a dedicated professional to his work and to the people he is offering high quality services to, with a very positive attitude. Arslan works equally well with senior leadership, peers and team members -- and he is able to effectively communicate and motivate others on all levels. His honesty and integrity surpass the expectations. It is my pleasure to recommend him personally and professionally.
My first interaction with Ansaries was when they enrolled with Microsoft and where positioned as partner. Their focus was to work with Microsoft Account manager and provide solutions and implementations to clients. While working with Arslan as key contact, he has shown the kind of initiative that is necessary to be successful in the field. He has excellent forensic skills, yet remains focused on the overall needs of the client. Arslan is a resourceful, creative, and solution-oriented person. He functions great as a team leader and also as a Business Partner towards vendor with a focused approach towards his client requirements and needs.In closing, based on my experience working with Arslan and Ansaries, I can unreservedly recommend them for any IT/AV/Security oriented requirements.
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