Ali Muhammad
DevOps Engineer at USAA
Mansfield, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAli Muhammad is a DevOps Engineer with over eight years of experience building and automating cloud-native delivery pipelines for large enterprises such as USAA, CVS Health, Staples, and Leidos. He specializes in CI/CD, infrastructure as code, container orchestration, and AWS services, having implemented end-to-end automation using Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, Docker/Kubernetes, and configuration management tools like Chef and Puppet. Comfortable across Linux and Windows environments, he has repeatedly transformed release processes—moving teams from manual builds to scalable, monitored production deployments with CloudWatch, ELK, and automated alerts. A lifelong tinkerer who "automates everything," he pairs a Master’s in MIS with hands-on experience designing build/release strategies and provisioning reproducible dev/test/prod environments. Notably, he has bridged on-prem and cloud worlds by reusing Chef recipes for both internal data centers and EC2, showing a pragmatic approach to hybrid infrastructure.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Management Information Systems, General, Master’s Degree, Management Information Systems, General at The University of Texas at Arlington
Github Skills (176)
python10
terraform10
ubuntu10
automation10
tfsec10
ansible-galaxy10
ansible-role10
ssh10
linux10
hashicorp10
virtualization10
ansible10
crictl10
vagrant10
1password10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
darkwizard242/ansible-role-kubelet
Nov 2021 - Jun 2026
Ansible role for 'kubelet'. Available on Ansible Galaxy.
Contributions:24 releases, 48 PRs, 34 pushes in 4 years 7 months
ansible-galaxyansible-rolekubeletansiblekubernetes
darkwizard242/ansible-role-kubens
Jan 2022 - Mar 2026
Ansible role for 'kubens'. Available on Ansible Galaxy.
Contributions:8 releases, 14 PRs, 14 pushes in 4 years 3 months
ansible-galaxyansible-roleansiblekubenskubernetes
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