Fouzan Ashraf
Alpharetta,GA
Summary
Motivated professional recognized for strong critical thinking and problem-solving abilities coupled with successful 9 year track record in industry. Dedicated to offering innovative solutions to eliminate legacy issues and elevate performance metrics. Looking forward to a socio-technological engagement bringing in transformation not only by technical skills but with adding credibility to the organization.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
3
3
Certification
Work History
DevOps Engineering Lead
UST Global Inc
08.2018 - Current
- Providing end to end automated infrastructure, build, release and deployment solutions to Equifax using globally accepted trending DevOps tools and technologies by following GitOps and DevSecOps practice
- As part of the Site Reliability Engineering Team, I have a responsibility to lead and maintain several application infrastructure and release lifecycles including access controls, auditing, demonstrations & documentation
- I have been working on enabling the release automation for several types of applications hosted on diverse infrastructure requirements
Associate Consultant
Syntel International Pvt Ltd
07.2015 - 08.2018
- Providing automated build and release solutions for continuous integration and delivery implementation to multiple clients of State Street Bank using globally accepted DevOps tools and technologies
- Also worked on source code migration which was an organization wide programme to migrate all existing applications from ClearCase to GitHub without affecting their regular build and release cycles
- Autosys Migration was a time bound initiative wherein I was involved in migrating almost half a million jobs from version 4 to version 11 as the support for version 4 was getting obsolete
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics & Communication Engineering
Manav Rachna International University
Faridabad, India 07.2010 - 06.2014
XII - Senior Secondary School -
Kendriya Vidyalaya (CBSE)
Andrews Ganj, New Delhi, India 04.2008 - 03.2010
X - Secondary School -
Kendriya Vidyalaya (CBSE)
Andrews Ganj, New Delhi, India 04.2007 - 03.2008
Skills
- DevSecOps
- AWS
- CI/CD
- Cloud Infra Maintenance
- Terraform
- Docker
- Bash Scripting
- Jenkins
- Ansible
- GitHub Administration
- GitHub Actions
- BitBucket
- Oracle SQL Server
- Apache Tomcat
- Grafana
- HashiCorp Vault
- Qualys
- JIRA
- Confluence
- Fortify
- Service Now
- Cloud Cost Optimization
- Presentations
- Reporting
- Audit Support
- Leadership
Accomplishments
- Received COLORS Hi-Flyer award in Q3’2020 as part of CSR Initiatives at UST
- Served DAgility as a Technical Panel for DevOps & AWS Cloud L1 and L2 interviews at UST
- USTAR-Rising Star Award for contribution in COLORS of UST leadership activities from Chennai
- USTAR-Shining Star Award for automating security operation of rotating load balancer certificate and appreciation from client
- Pre-finalist of NxG’2019 (Next Generation Leader) at UST Chennai centre
- Winner - Best Presentation (Team) in round 3 of NxG’2019
- USTAR-Super Star Award for exceptional contribution in automation and appreciation from client
- Winner of Hackathon-2016 at Syntel for building Reusable Software Asset at organization level
- An esteemed Toastmaster declared as the best humorous speaker in 2016 and 1st runner up in evaluation contest held in 2017 at the club level contest
- Certified as Competent Leader in 07/01/17 by Toastmasters International
- Recognized twice as an AGILE value awardee of Syntel for displaying Entrepreneurial behavior
- Recognized as Best Organizer for Employee Engagement Program commonly known as Syntel Super Premier League for conducting more than hundred events and a grand finale
- Winner of logo design competition for creating logo for Syntel Super Premier League
Certification
- GitHub Actions Certified (2024)
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (2023)
- GCP Associate Cloud Engineer (2019)
Languages
English
Native/ Bilingual
Hindi
Native/ Bilingual
Urdu
Native/ Bilingual
Arabic
Elementary
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
DevOps Engineering Lead
UST Global Inc
08.2018 - Current
Associate Consultant
Syntel International Pvt Ltd
07.2015 - 08.2018
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics & Communication Engineering
Manav Rachna International University
07.2010 - 06.2014
XII - Senior Secondary School -
Kendriya Vidyalaya (CBSE)
04.2008 - 03.2010
X - Secondary School -
Kendriya Vidyalaya (CBSE)
04.2007 - 03.2008
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