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Ali Zandieh
Lead DevOps | Platform Engineer | SRE
London, UK | British Citizen | ali.zandieh@gmail.com
Professional Summary
15+ years architecting resilient cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, and GitOps workflows. CKA/CKS certified. Expert in AWS/GCP, Terraform, and DevSecOps. Proven track record of scaling engineering culture, optimizing cloud spend, and automating complex delivery pipelines.
Core Stack
- cloud_cdn AWS, GCP, Cloudflare
- k8s CKA, CKS, EKS, Helm, Kustomize, ArgoCD, FluxCD, Istio, Calico, Falco, OPA Gatekeeper
- iac_cicd Terraform, Crossplane, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Argo Rollouts, Kaniko
- security HashiCorp Vault, SOPS, Kubeseal, Stackrox, AWS Nitro Enclave, MPC Blockchain
- observability Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK/Opensearch, Loki, FluentBit, Alloy
- ai Claude, Qwen, OpenAI API
- artifact_registries Harbor, Nexus, AWS ECR, Jfrog
- scripting Python, Bash, JavaScript, Solidity, SQL/NoSQL
Impact Metrics
30+
K8s Clusters
300+
CI Templates
25-30%
Efficiency Gain
£2K/mo
Cloud Savings
Recent Experience
Lead DevOps @ SimplifyVMS
Mar 2025 – Present- Architected greenfield AWS infra & EKS via Terraform
- ArgoCD + Image Updater GitOps pipelines
- Leading DevOps & product teams, mentoring engineers
Senior SRE @ Ticketmaster
May 2024 – Jan 2025- Argo Rollouts Canary deployments
- Managed 30+ K8s clusters
- Centralized CI template for 300+ repos
- Python automation & Kaniko multi-arch builds
Senior Platform Engineer @ Underwriteme (UME)
Mar 2023 – Mar 2024- £2K/mo AWS cost optimization
- Terraform module refactoring
- ECS Jenkins infra
- FluxCD V1→V2 migration
Lead DevOps @ Qredo
Sep 2022 – Feb 2023- Led Equinix→AWS migration (25-30% efficiency gain)
- MPC blockchain node deployment
- K8s security hardening & Nitro Enclaves
Senior DevOps @ Consensys
May 2021 – Aug 2022- Blockchain infra on AWS/EKS
- GitOps multi-cluster via FluxCD
- Vault migration, Stackrox/Falco integration
Education
Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science – Web Technologies
Oxford Brookes University, Oxford
2009 – 2010Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Engineering – Software
Azad University, South Tehran
2002 – 2006