Saad Yaldram

About

Hi, I am Saad Yaldram, a DevOps Engineer and a Freelancer. I have a strong background in operations in Amazon Web Services. I work closely with operations team to design and implement automated processes for building, testing, and deploying application. I'm experienced in using back-end tools such as Jenkins, Docker, and Terraform to create scalable and reliable infrastructure.

Saad Yaldram

DevOps Engineer

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional and AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional.

  • Website: https://resume.saadyaldram.com
  • City: Richmond, USA
  • Email: syaldram@gmail.com
  • Birthday: September
  • Degree: Bachelor of Science
  • Nationality: US Citizen
  • Freelance: Available
  • Hobby: Hiking

Here are some facts about my personal life. I love to learn new technologies and challenge myself with new projects. I am also a proud father of two lovely kids who inspire me every day. In my spare time, I like to hike on scenic trails, read books, and listen to podcasts on various topics. I am especially interested in history and politics, and I enjoy learning about different perspectives and cultures.

Certifications

Here are the information technology certifications I have earned over the course of my career. Continuous improvement and continuous deployment (attaining certifications) has been the mantra of my professional development.

Skills

My goal is to use technical skills learned over the years and apply them to client solutions. I can provide valuable insight into the financial and healthcare industries with my background in analytics and programming.

HTML 100%
CSS 88%
Javascript 75%
Python 85%
Excel 90%
SQL 80%

Resume

Professional Experience

DevOps Engineer

2021 - Present

Booz Allen Hamilton, Richmond, VA

  • Developed and implemented an automatic tagging project for AWS services using CloudBees (Jenkins) CI/CD pipeline, Terraform IaC, and GitHub SCM. This enforced compliance with CMS policy across 50 AWS accounts and for the first time, provided accurate billing information across program categories.
  • Created a CI/CD pipeline to scan AWS accounts for EC2 instances using IMDSv1 and documented security vulnerabilities. Utilized AWS StepFunction, Lambda functions, and Terraform IaC to generate summary reports for leadership.
  • Recommended open-source tools for enforcing least-privileged access in AWS environments and presented “AirIAM” tool to leadership with a demonstration of installation and usage.
  • Automated the launch of compliant EC2 instances using a Terraform template stored in SCM, enforcing the use of the latest RHEL AWS AMI, compliant subnets and VPCs, IAM policies, and tags.
  • Refactored cloud resource inventory application to scale and increase performance using AWS ECS Fargate, Step Function, Lambda, and Terraform IaC across DEV and PROD accounts. Automated docker image build and upload using Jenkins CloudBees CI/CD pipeline and Amazon ECR.
  • Automated report generation from AWS Config rule using Javascript and Python scripts. Converted Python code to Javascript for increased performance and utilized chromium browser APIs. Created AWS Lambda docker images to overcome code size limitations and automated weekly Confluence web page updates.

AWS Cloud Engineer

2020 - 2021

Pearl Business Solutions LLC, Richmond, VA

  • Implemented automation workflows that triggered infrastructure updates and changes in response to code commits and pull requests, facilitating continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
  • Created comprehensive Ansible playbooks to automate the installation, configuration, and management of the ELK stack components, including Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana.
  • Implemented resource optimization strategies to ensure efficient container resource allocation, guaranteeing optimal performance and scalability for each component of the ELK stack.
  • Leveraged Splunk's security information and event management (SIEM) features to detect and investigate security incidents, ensuring the web application's robust protection against potential threats.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Accounting

2008 - 2012

University of Maryland, College Park

Cyber Security Bootcamp

2020 - 2021

University of Richmond

Certificates

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
  • AWS Certified Developer - Associate
  • AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator
  • CompTIA Security +
  • CompTIA Network +

Competencies

  • Python3
  • Jenkins CloudBees
  • Terraform
  • Nodejs
  • Bash Scripts
  • Linux
  • Docker
  • SQL

Projects

Data Analytics

A Python Flask web application that uses Gunicorn and Nginx as web servers, and is hosted on an EC2 instance with CloudFront distribution and Route 53 and AWS ACM for domain and SSL management.

GitHub

Cloud Resume Challenge

The AWS Cloud Resume Challenge is a project that builds a personal resume/portfolio website with a visitor counter, and deploy it fully through a number of AWS services.

GitHub

Web Development

This website is a portfolio of my web development project and achievements. I designed and developed it from scratch using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It demonstrates my proficiency in front-end web technologies and my passion for creating engaging and responsive web applications.

GitHub

Blogs

Investment Portfolio

Real Estate & Demographics