Umar Faruq Chowdhury

DevOps / Platform Engineer · CKA · Kubernetes · Terraform · GitOps

Dhaka, Bangladesh (GMT+6)

Contact

github.com/umarfchy umarchowdhury.com linkedin.com/in/umarfchy umarfchy@gmail.com

Summary

First and sole DevOps engineer at a 120-person company, owning cloud infrastructure end-to-end across AWS and DigitalOcean. CKA-certified DevOps / Platform Engineer with 4+ years building GitOps and observability pipelines, cutting environment provisioning by 99%, and leading a DevSecOps initiative across 70+ repositories while supporting ISO 27001 certification. Backed by a fullstack engineering background that shapes platform tooling and pipelines developers actually adopt.

Skills

Containers & Orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker, Docker Compose, Helm, ArgoCD (GitOps), Microservices
IaC & CI/CD: Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, GitHub Actions
Observability & Reliability: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Alertmanager, Incident Response, On-call
Security & Compliance: ISO 27001, DevSecOps — SAST (Semgrep, CodeQL), SCA, Container & IaC Scanning (Trivy, KICS), Secret Scanning (TruffleHog, Gitleaks), Sealed Secrets, Drata, DefectDojo, GitHub Advanced Security, Nessus, Coraza WAF
Cloud: AWS (EKS, EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, VPC, Route53, API Gateway, CloudWatch, IAM), DigitalOcean (DOKS, Droplets, Spaces, Load Balancers), GCP (Compute Engine, Cloud Run)
Networking & Proxy: Traefik, Nginx Ingress, TLS, DNS
Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis
Languages & OS: Python, Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL, Bash, Linux

Experience

Technovative Solutions Limited

May 2024 — Present
DevOps Engineer
Manchester, UK (Remote)
Bullets
  • As the company's first dedicated DevOps engineer, automated DigitalOcean provisioning with Terraform and Ansible, cutting environment setup from ~2 hours to under 3 minutes
  • Designed an open-source DevSecOps toolchain (SAST, SCA, IaC, container, and secret scanning) across 70+ repositories, avoiding ~$225K/year in commercial licensing (Snyk Enterprise, GitHub Advanced Security)
  • Implemented the technical security controls behind the company's first ISO 27001 certification, unlocking enterprise B2B deals gated on the standard
  • Built 10+ GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines deploying to Kubernetes via ArgoCD GitOps, enabling multiple production releases daily
  • Ran a 6-microservice Digital Product Passport platform across 5 Kubernetes clusters in stable production (30 service instances)
  • Architected the observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Alertmanager) on Kubernetes via Helm, with proactive Slack alerting so failures surface to on-call before users report them
  • Containerized a complex Catena-X / Eclipse Tractus-X umbrella chart — wiring ~60 microservices into Kubernetes manifests and Docker Compose (not offered in Tractus-X OSS) to run the full stack on a single laptop
  • Eliminated $252/mo per-developer cloud VMs across 17 engineers (~$50K/year) by making that stack locally runnable, easy to develop, deploy, and demo
  • Designed a compliance-driven AWS migration (landing zone, networking, cutover sequencing) for 119 droplets and delivered a Terraform/Pulumi IaC proof-of-concept making the target infrastructure reproducible and auditable

NeovoTech Limited

April 2022 — April 2024
Software Engineer (Tech Lead & DevOps)
Dhaka, Bangladesh (Remote)
Bullets
  • As Tech Lead, led 10+ engineers across three products, driving technical direction, scoping, and delivery
  • Owned CI/CD on GitHub Actions and multi-cloud deployments across Vercel, AWS App Runner, and GCP Cloud Run/Firebase, with cached lint, type-check, and build steps for fast developer feedback
  • Deployed and scaled a padel matchmaking and booking platform that grew to 9,000+ users, and built its real-time chat (PubNub) synced across web and mobile
  • Architected a Turborepo monorepo (Next.js web + Expo/React Native mobile) sharing tRPC APIs and types, giving the team end-to-end type safety and faster builds
  • Cut frontend network calls by 40% and backend execution time by 50% by resolving database query and backend bottlenecks

Eucaps Limited

June 2021 — March 2022
Full-Stack Engineer
Stockholm, Sweden (Remote)
Bullets
  • Built a serverless data pipeline on AWS Lambda that processed Refinitiv and S&P SME data into the database, with CloudWatch for monitoring and debugging
  • Owned AWS Amplify deployments and code reviews, and integrated serverless KYC and external APIs via API Gateway and Lambda

Part-Time & Advisory

Poridhi Limited

March 2023 — July 2024
DevOps Mentor
Dhaka, Bangladesh (Remote)
Bullets
  • Co-created a DevOps curriculum covering Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, and microservices
  • Delivered hands-on training to 300+ engineers on deployment, containerization, load balancing, and microservices networking

Dakthar.com

May 2023 — July 2024
Founding Engineer
Dhaka, Bangladesh (Remote)
Bullets
  • Owned the full delivery pipeline solo — CI/CD on GitHub Actions and a Turbo-cached monorepo on a Next.js/tRPC stack with Prisma and PlanetScale MySQL — running the platform at near-zero infrastructure cost on free-tier managed services
  • As the sole engineer, architected and shipped a healthcare management platform end-to-end — appointment scheduling, doctor listings and profiles, an admin panel, and a full role-based relational data model
  • Engineered serverless, low-cost features — build-time static generation with incremental regeneration (Next.js ISR, no Redis layer), real-time doctor availability on Firebase Realtime Database with custom security rules, and Vercel cron notifications (email/SMS)

Certification

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) · Expires: Jan 2027

Education

University of Dhaka
M.S. in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
February 2019 — March 2021
GPA: 3.5/4.0
University of Dhaka
B.S. in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
January 2015 — December 2018
GPA: 3.36/4.0

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