Bilaal Ahmed
DevOps Engineer at CDL Software
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBilaal Ahmed is a DevOps Engineer based in Manchester with eight years' experience bridging IT support, platform engineering and development across retail and software firms. He brings hands-on expertise in cloud and Linux operations (AWS), automation and modern web stacks, complemented by full‑stack development skills in JavaScript, PHP, Laravel, React and Next.js. Progressing from second-line support to platform and DevOps roles at CDL Software and Missguided, he combines operational rigor with application-level understanding—helping teams ship reliable, scalable services. His background includes insurance industry accreditation (CII) and vocational IT qualifications, reflecting a blend of formal and practical training. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who leverages both legacy systems knowledge (OpenVMS, XML) and contemporary headless CMS/NoSQL architectures to deliver production outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
IT, Software, Web & Telecoms Professionals, IT, Software, Web & Telecoms Professionals at The Skills CompanyParrs Wood Sixth FormParrs Wood High School
Urdu, Punjabi
Github Skills (15)
stripe-api10
redux9
firebase9
redux-saga8
react8
react-hooks8
authorization7
git7
cloudinary7
ecommerce6
nextjs4
cms3
strapi3
graphql2
react-native2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Bilaal96/travel-agency-nextjs
Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
A Travel Agency landing page & blog using Next.js. Site content is managed and fetched from Strapi CMS using GraphQL queries. Images are stored and managed with Cloudinary via a Strapi plugin.
Contributions:89 commits, 56 PRs, 72 pushes in 2 months
cloudinarycmsgraphqlnextjsstrapi
Bilaal96/book-worm
Jun 2021 - May 2023
Contributions:74 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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