Nadeem Shahzad
Senior DevOps Engineer at Arbisoft
Punjab, Pakistan
Summary
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Top SchoolNadeem Shahzad is a Senior DevOps Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, primarily on AWS, and a strong background in system administration and SRE. He holds CKA and CKAD certifications and excels at containerized deployments using Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), ArgoCD, Helm and Vault, with infrastructure-as-code implemented via Terraform and Ansible. At Arbisoft he has driven production-grade automation, observability and CI/CD improvements for Open edX—contributing to the well-known openedx/edx-platform and its deployment tooling—while integrating monitoring with Splunk, NewRelic and OpsGenie. Familiar with both low-level systems work (kernel tuning, SAN/iSCSI, PXE) and higher-level platform concerns, he bridges ops and developer workflows to reduce toil. Based in Punjab, Pakistan, he brings a practical, security-minded approach to deployments (nginx/HSTS, cert-manager) and a track record of improving performance through thoughtful configuration and automation.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
MCS Computer Science, MCS Computer Science at Virtual University of PakistanBachelor of Science (BSc) Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Mathematics at University of the Punjab
English, Urdu
Github Skills (21)
github-ci10
docker10
data-service10
python10
django10
bash10
dockers10
webservice10
aws10
ansible10
jenkins10
ansible-galaxy10
jenkins-ci10
backend10
githubaction-workflow10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
openedx-unsupported/configuration
Feb 2017 - Jan 2023
A collection of edx configuration scripts and utilities that edx.org uses to deploy openedx.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:98 reviews, 573 commits, 592 PRs in 6 years
Contributions summary:Nadeem primarily focused on automating and improving the infrastructure and deployment processes for the edx.org configuration repository. They implemented and modified scripts related to Jenkins, build processes, and AMI creation. Contributions also include configuring nginx for improved security, enabling HSTS, and optimizing logging configurations. The user addressed system-level configurations, including changes to the AWS infrastructure and monitoring scripts.
pythonconfiguration-managementansibleedxconfiguration-scripts
openedx/edx-platform
Jan 2018 - May 2021
The Open edX LMS & Studio, powering education sites around the world!
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 reviews, 37 commits, 61 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Nadeem primarily contributed to back-end infrastructure and DevOps tasks within the Open edX platform. They focused on updating dependencies like Gunicorn, improving system configuration by adding X-Forwarded-For middleware, and refactoring tasks related to program certificates by moving them to the background_process queue. Additionally, the user has experience with GitHub Actions for automating database dumps. These contributions indicate an understanding of deployment and infrastructure management.
edxlmssitesbackend-serviceopen-edx
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