Burhan Khalid
Senior Cloud Operations Architect
Manama, Capital Governorate, Bahrain
Summary
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RockstarBurhan Khalid is a senior cloud operations architect and seasoned technology leader with 15+ years building and operating digital platforms across banking, finance, and enterprise IT. Currently at AWS, he blends hands-on cloud architecture and technical account management with prior roles as product owner, tech lead and CTO-level practice lead, delivering end-to-end solutions on Azure and AWS. He has led digital transformation for retail and electronic banking channels, managed cross-functional teams, and driven platform delivery while improving integrations, deployment and observability. An active contributor to open-source projects like cookiecutter-django, his work focuses on backend and DevOps improvements such as Redis, Mailgun and Heroku/Dokku deployment refinements. Based in Manama, Bahrain, he pairs deep systems-level experience with mentorship and startup community support, often surfacing practical operational fixes that reduce time-to-production.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
English, Urdu
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Github Skills (102)
github10
python10
django-forms10
heroku10
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gitbash10
flask10
django10
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csv10
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Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
cookiecutter/cookiecutter-django
Jul 2015 - Apr 2019
Cookiecutter Django is a framework for jumpstarting production-ready Django projects quickly.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:50 commits, 18 PRs, 10 pushes in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Burhan primarily contributed to enhancing the project's infrastructure and integration capabilities. Their commits demonstrate the addition of Redis support for caching, Mailgun integration for email services, and Opbeat integration for monitoring. They also modified settings, updated documentation, and addressed deployment configurations for Heroku and Dokku, indicating a focus on back-end development and DevOps tasks. The user made several changes to improve the environment variables.
cookiecutter-djangodjango-projectpythondjangocookiecutter
devkuwait/hacktober-18-presentation
Oct 2018 - Oct 2022
Presentation for Hacktober 2018
Contributions:38 PRs, 39 pushes, 19 branches in 4 years
javapresentation
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