Summary
Abdikarim Suldan is a Senior DevOps Engineer based in Manchester with six years’ experience building and automating cloud-native infrastructure, primarily on AWS. He has driven measurable results—cutting deployment times by 20%, reducing monthly cloud spend by 25%, and delivering over £330k in cost savings through FinOps-led decommissions and environment scheduling. Skilled with Terraform, Ansible, GitLab CI/CD and observability stacks, he blends reliability engineering, security automation (TFLint/TFSec) and incident recovery planning to keep systems resilient at scale. Notably, he has tested failure scenarios by simulating AZ outages to validate rapid recovery, demonstrating a pragmatic focus on disaster preparedness as well as efficiency.
6 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Business and Technology Education, ICT, Business and Technology Education, ICT at WQE College
GCSE, GCSE at Babington Academy
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computing, First Class (1.1), Bachelor of Science - BS, Computing, First Class (1.1) at De Montfort University
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