Saad Mehmood

About

Senior DevOps / SRE Engineer with 6+ years of experience designing, automating, and operating scalable cloud-native platforms across AWS, GCP, and Azure. Strong hands-on background in Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, observability, and distributed systems, with current focus on AI-augmented operations and self-healing infrastructure.

Experience

• DevOps Engineer
  UPSTARTCOMMERCE
  — – Present
• Senior Site Reliability & DevOps Engineer
  TELENOR GSS
  Sep 2022 – Jul 2023
• DevOps Engineer
  TEO INTERNATIONAL
  Apr 2022 – Sep 2022
• System Engineer
  AKSA-SDS
  Jul 2021 – Apr 2022
• DevOps Engineer
  NAVVTCH
  Sep 2020 – Mar 2021

Education

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
  Preston University, Islamabad
  Computer Science · 2021
• Diploma / Technical Training
  Hazza Institute of Technology, Islamabad

Skills

• Python
• TLS
• Helm
• ELK Stack
• RBAC
• Keycloak
• Cloud SQL
• Loki
• Istio

Projects

• AI-Augmented DevOps & Autonomous Operations
  Kubernetes, logs/metrics correlation, Terraform, AI agents

  Ongoing personal R&D focused on self-healing infrastructure, including health monitoring, root-cause analysis, guardrailed auto-remediation, CI/CD triage, IaC assistance, and Kubernetes optimization.

Courses & certifications

• ArgoCD · Udemy
• Apache Kafka: Cluster Setup & Administration
• Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure · Coursera
• Containerized Applications on AWS · Coursera
• AWS Cloud Technical Essentials · Coursera
• Infrastructure as Code with Terraform · Coursera
• Advanced Application Management with Red Hat OpenShift · Coursera
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) · The Linux Foundation