Summary
Muhammad Zali is a Principal Architect and published author with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and running secure, enterprise-grade cloud-native platforms across AKS, GKE, and OpenShift. He specializes in embedding DevSecOps and Zero Trust principles into GitOps-driven pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and observability stacks, and has driven multi-cloud transformations that cut provisioning times from a week to under a day. At DHL IT Services he led platform initiatives that automated weekly patching across 100+ clusters, reducing reported CVEs by ~60% and introducing AIOps/MLOps for predictive remediation. A former Red Hatter and prolific technical writer, he contributes to Red Hat and community publications and authored "Securing Cloud Containers" (Wiley, 2024), reflecting deep practical expertise in container and Kubernetes hardening. He combines network and systems roots with platform engineering sensibilities, prioritizing developer experience by shipping adoptable internal tooling and treating documentation as a first-class deliverable. Based in Malaysia, he is known for translating complex cloud security requirements into auditable, production-ready patterns that scale globally.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
SPM, Science, SPM, Science at SMK Taman Kosas
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Chemistry, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Chemistry at University of Malaya
English, Malay