Ismail Raaj
Lead DevOps Engineer at HiLabs
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Summary
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Top SchoolIsmail Raaj is a Lead DevOps Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and operating cloud, on-prem and hybrid infrastructures, currently driving DevOps at HiLabs after leading initiatives at Velotio. He specializes in end-to-end automation, GitOps, and IaC using Terraform, Chef and SaltStack, and has a strong track record building HA Kubernetes platforms (EKS/GKE) and containerized pipelines. Ismail pairs observability expertise—Prometheus, Datadog and ELK—with pragmatic cost and capacity optimization that has repeatedly stabilized production environments across banking, healthcare, media and trust assurance domains. He mentors engineering teams, codifies reusable CI/CD templates and has led complex migrations such as Artifactory on GKE and GitLab runner automation. A practical problem-solver with a B.E. in Electronics & Telecom, he also writes technical blog posts to simplify tooling and shares an approach summed up on GitHub as "Simplifying things one step at a time."
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma in Advance Computing Advance Computing, Diploma in Advance Computing Advance Computing at Sunbeam, PuneHSC General Science, HSC General Science at Hislop CollegeBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering at Anjuman College of Engineering and TechnologySSC Basic Scooling, SSC Basic Scooling at Orange City High School
English, Hindi, Urdu, Marathi
Github Skills (87)
slave10
master-slave10
linux-distro9
packer9
jenkins9
angular8
dotnet8
architecture8
terraform8
aws8
graph8
messaging7
distro7
infrastructure7
vagrant7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ismail0352/uffizzi-quickstart-compose
Nov 2023 - Dec 2023
Get started with Uffizzi (~1 min)
Contributions:5 PRs, 42 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
ismail0352/dockerfile-collection
Jan 2024 - Aug 2024
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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