Kawsar Kamal
Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKawsar Kamal is a Senior Solutions Architect with over a decade of experience designing and operationalizing cloud-native infrastructure, now focused at AWS after a multi-year run at HashiCorp driving product adoption and solution engineering globally. He blends deep hands-on skills in infrastructure automation, Kubernetes, Terraform and HashiCorp Vault with a pragmatic security mindset, having contributed operational scripts and Kubernetes auth integrations to well-known HashiCorp guides. Comfortable in pre-sales and post-sales roles, he has repeatedly led large cloud migrations, multi-datacenter deployments, and enterprise transformation programs for Fortune 500 clients. His background ranges from mainframe-era Java engineering at IBM to modern DevOps practices, giving him rare end-to-end perspective on legacy-to-cloud transitions. Kawsar shares technical insights publicly through a developer blog and project pages, signaling a habit of turning operational know-how into reusable patterns. Based in the New York City area, he combines consultative customer engagement with deep technical craft to accelerate secure, scalable cloud adoption.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteBS, Computer Engineering, BS, Computer Engineering at University at Buffalo
Bengali, Bengali
Github Skills (28)
kubernetes10
docker10
hashicorp-vault10
secret-management10
bash10
dockers10
terraform10
cicd10
terraformer10
automation10
secrets-manager10
script10
openshift10
kubernetes-pods10
infrastructure-as-code10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/vault-guides
Jul 2019 - Sep 2021
Example usage of HashiCorp Vault secrets management
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Security Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Security EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 17 commits, 12 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Kawsar primarily contributed to the automation and infrastructure aspects of the project, focusing on setting up and configuring HashiCorp Vault. Their work included creating and integrating Kubernetes authentication, demonstrating how to manage secrets within Kubernetes deployments. The user also developed scripts for bootstrapping the Vault cluster, including unsealing, and database benchmark configurations. These contributions indicate a strong focus on operationalizing Vault and securing its use within various environments.
hashicorp-vaultvault-secretsvaulthashicorpsecrets
hashicorp/terraform-guides
Aug 2018 - Nov 2019
Example usage of HashiCorp Terraform
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:15 reviews, 27 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Kawsar primarily focused on modifying infrastructure scripts related to Kubernetes and OpenShift deployments on AWS. Their contributions included updating sleep times in post-install scripts and making changes to exclude kernel updates. The user also worked on updating an automation script for Terraform Enterprise, including adding variables and running Terraform configurations. These changes suggest a focus on infrastructure automation and configuration management.
gcpterraform-modulescdktfhashicorp-terraformhashicorp
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