Akhter Ali
Sr. DevOps Engineer at Upstart
Sterling, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkhter Ali is a Senior DevOps Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building scalable, self-service infrastructure and CI/CD patterns across AWS, Terraform, CDK, GitHub Actions, and GitLab. He specializes in creating security-approved resource libraries, automated account provisioning, and reusable pipeline constructs that enable engineering and ML teams to operate independently. Comfortable coding in TypeScript, Go, and Python (with Rust on the way), he combines developer ergonomics with operational rigor to minimize touch points and streamline workflows. A vim/neovim enthusiast and lifelong tinkerer, he learns new tools through personal projects and publicly shares work on GitHub and via his leadership at CodingMeltdown. His background ranges from cloud support at AWS to custom VPN and self-hosted CI solutions, giving him deep practical insight into both low-level ops and developer-facing platforms.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Associate’s Degree, Information Technology, GPA: 3.4, Associate’s Degree, Information Technology, GPA: 3.4 at Northern Virginia Community CollegeHigh School, High School at Park View High school.
English
Github Skills (81)
python10
automation10
infrastructure10
remote-execution10
package-repository10
infrastructure-management10
scale10
event-stream10
cli10
boto10
configuration-management10
aws-sdk10
iot10
salt10
tui10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
moali87/.dotfiles
Jul 2022 - May 2026
Contributions:208 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
Code-Militia/jirust
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
Jira terminal UI
Contributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 78 commits in 2 months
jiraterminal-uituicliproductivity
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