Shahzad Chaudhry is a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and automating cloud platforms, primarily for financial and large public-sector organisations. He specializes in Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform and the Elastic Stack, and has a strong track record of building CI/CD pipelines, hardened AMIs, EKS clusters and multi-environment infrastructure using Vault for secrets. Comfortable leading and mentoring distributed teams, Shahzad blends deep tooling expertise with practical operational support from development through production incident resolution. Notably, he has contributed open-source work deploying Elastic Stack in container orchestrators and integrated CI for reproducible deployments. Based in London, he brings a security-conscious, automation-first approach to platform engineering and a history of simplifying complex release processes for high-compliance environments.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BEng Foundation year + Microelectronic Systems Engineering, BEng Foundation year + Microelectronic Systems Engineering at The University of Manchester
High school, High school at Foss Videregående skole, Oslo, Norway
Studied English language in London, Studied English language in London at EF Executive Language Institute
Deploy Elastic stack in a Docker Swarm cluster. Ship application logs and metrics using beats & GELF plugin to Elasticsearch
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 205 commits in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Shahzad primarily focused on deploying and configuring an Elastic stack within a Docker Swarm cluster. Their contributions involved modifying deployment scripts, specifically `deployStack.sh`, to update Elasticsearch versions and configure networking. They also added and updated services, including Filebeat, and integrated Travis CI for continuous integration. The work directly relates to the repository's goals of managing and deploying an Elastic stack.
Contributions:65 commits, 2 PRs, 52 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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