Azaan Dhalla
Dev-Ops Engineer
Featured Project
Taxpal
June 2023 - September 2024
TypeScript
Next.js
AWS
AWS CDK
Tailwind
tRPC
Prisma
PostgreSQL
First full-stack application, designed to gain hands-on experience in building a fully functional web app with authentication, backend services, cloud deployment, and security best practices.
Experience
Apple
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DevOps Engineer
September 2020 - June 2022
AWS
IaC
CloudFormation
Managed AWS and in-house infrastructure for the company's global online store, with configuration, infrastructure, and secrets orchestrated across tens of thousands of servers using IaC
Supervised a team of contractors for weekly dev, stage, and prod deployments across all AWS organizations; troubleshot errors and documented deployment tracking for customers
Led the initial research, testing, and migration to AWS Graviton, resulting in annual server cost savings of tens of millions
Collaborated with cross-functional teams to integrate applications into infrastructure with CloudFormation, meeting performance and security standards
Built a monitoring tool to track and clean stale AWS resources, notifying employees of upcoming resource teardown
Contributed to the company's custom cloud deployment kit written in Go
Apple
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Java/DevOps Engineer
(Contract)
January 2020 - September 2020
Java
HazelCast
Ansible
Contributed to development of custom in-house deployment tool for server applications using Java and Spring Boot
Migrated legacy Oracle Coherence system to HazelCast, considering custom configurations within a standardized Spring Boot application wrapper
Implemented data serialization for efficient data read/write operations in cache systems
Modified and improved Ansible playbooks to automate provisioning of the application on their host servers and it's sentinel hosts
Gained expertise in datacenter operations, troubleshooting and triaging deployment issues across of servers
The Home Depot
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Software Engineer
January 2018 - January 2020
Java
GCP
Cassandra
Concourse
BigQuery
DataFlow
Managed a multi-datacenter Cassandra cluster on Google Cloud, overseeing billions records across eight tables
Built a semi-autonomous CI pipeline with Concourse, reducing deployment times by 50% through dependency caching and enforcing unit test coverage and security thresholds to enhance code quality
Used Google Dataflow and BigQuery to developed a data-validation application for legacy project migration to identify API discrepancies, reducing data errors by 99.96%
Transitioned some batch processes to real-time updates using Google Pub/Sub, enabling immediate updates to customer-facing data
Created a configurable Quartz scheduler with a RESTful API using Spring Boot to orchestrate Dataflow jobs, increasing deployment flexibility and speed
Built big data batch text-processing pipelines in Google Dataflow to efficiently inject records into Cassandra
Certificates
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2023
Skills & Tools
Language
FE Related
TypeScript
BE Related
Go
Python
SQL
Other
Java
Technologies
UI Related
Tailwind
Shadcn
FE Related
React
Next.js
Playwright
BE Related
IaC
Concourse
PostgreSQL
Ansible
tRPC
Prisma
Cassandra
Redis
Cloud
AWS
ECS
CloudFormation
CodePipeline
GCP
DataFlow
Google Pub/Sub
BigQuery
Software
VS Code
Figma