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Cloud Platform & DevOps EngineerCKAPerak, MalaysiaOpen to remote roles

I keep production platforms running.

CKA-certified platform engineer with 3 years shipping and supporting Kubernetes workloads across telecom billing, semiconductor manufacturing, and enterprise software.

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Years in production
3+
Kubernetes certified
CKA
Production go-lives
3+
API integrations validated
20+

01/About

I build and run the platforms other people's software depends on.

I work at the seam between infrastructure and software. My background is as a developer — Python, C++, REST APIs — which means when a deployment breaks at 2am, I can read the stack trace as well as the Helm chart.

Right now I deploy and support cloud-native telecom billing platforms at Matrixx Software, where a bad release is a billing outage for an entire carrier. Before that I wrote production software for semiconductor wafer test systems at Wolfspeed and built backend automation at Intel.

I'm focused on Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, and CI/CD — building the kind of deployment pipelines that make go-lives boring.

Certifications

  • CKA

    Certified Kubernetes Administrator

    The Linux Foundation · 2025

  • CDF

    Certified DevOps Foundation

    CCSD Council · 2025

02/Experience

Three years keeping production systems honest — telecom billing, semiconductor manufacturing, and enterprise software.

  1. Trainee Technical Consultant

    Current

    Matrixx Software

    Apr 2025 — PresentRemote

    Cloud-native telecom billing platform — Kubernetes production deployments and REST API integration.

    • Deployed and supported Kubernetes production configurations for a cloud-native telecom billing platform, supporting 3+ production go-lives aligned with solution architecture, performance targets, and availability requirements.
    • Validated 20+ REST API integrations with Postman across MATRIXX platform components — verifying endpoint behaviour, payload integrity, and cross-component correctness before production release.
    • Resolved technical issues across the full delivery lifecycle (implementation → deployment → go-live → warranty), coordinating fixes between platform engineers and customer teams during live production windows.
    • Advised project managers on CI/CD readiness, infrastructure dependencies, and deployment risks prior to production cutover — surfacing blockers early and reducing last-minute delays.
    • Executed environment validation, configuration management, and stability verification during platform-to-production transitions, ensuring consistency across staging and production clusters.
    • Kubernetes
    • Helm
    • REST APIs
    • Postman
    • CI/CD
    • Linux

  2. Software Developer

    Wolfspeed

    Apr 2024 — Apr 2025Remote

    Production software for semiconductor wafer test systems in a 24/7 high-availability fab.

    • Built and maintained production Python and C++ applications for semiconductor wafer test systems on Linux and Windows, supporting 24/7 high-availability manufacturing operations.
    • Owned end-to-end SDLC — requirements, design, coding, code review, validation testing — for wafer test software in a 24/7 fab environment, delivering production-ready releases on schedule.
    • Integrated automated data collection and process monitoring into wafer test workflows, improving yield visibility for manufacturing engineering teams.
    • Resolved critical production defects under uptime pressure, preventing 20+ minutes of unplanned fab downtime per incident.
    • Python
    • C++
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • Monitoring
    • Git

  3. System Software Development Engineer

    Intel

    May 2022 — Mar 2024Remote

    Cross-platform validation, backend automation, and enterprise tooling for distributed teams.

    • Built a web-based backend for automated test content distribution, cutting distribution time from ~2 hours to ~10 minutes and eliminating manual file transfers for distributed validation teams.
    • Integrated automated diagnostic scripts into Linux and Windows validation workflows, increasing diagnostic throughput across cross-platform environments.
    • Installed and maintained an enterprise tooling stack (RabbitMQ, Erlang, Visual Studio) across multi-platform lab environments supporting backend automation and integration testing pipelines.
    • Executed feature testing, integration validation, and QA across distributed remote teams, identifying defects pre-release in cross-platform validation pipelines.
    • Python
    • RabbitMQ
    • Erlang
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • Automation

Education

B.Eng. Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Sep 2017 — Jan 2022

Universiti Teknologi PETRONASInstrumentation and ControlCGPA 3.16

  • YUTP Education Grant recipient (2018)
  • Head of Department, ASEAN Student Forum (2019)
  • 3rd place, International Advanced Robotics Competition (2020)

03/Projects

The full platform loop — code, build, provision, deploy, observe — built end to end.

Platform Ops Demo

2025Personal

View Platform Ops Demo on GitHub

Cloud-native billing platform, built the way production is built

A production-style microservices platform built end to end — application code, container builds, Helm packaging, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and observability. Built to demonstrate the full platform engineering loop rather than a single layer of it.

  • Architected a cloud-native telecom billing platform with FastAPI, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, and Docker multi-stage builds.
  • Packaged services with Helm charts — deployments, services, health probes, multi-replica configs.
  • Provisioned AWS infrastructure with Terraform (VPC, EKS, ECR) and automated end-to-end deploys via GitHub Actions.
  • Implemented Prometheus metrics, Grafana dashboards, and automated Postman API tests.
// deployment pipeline

  1. 01

    Code

    FastAPI · PostgreSQL · RabbitMQ

  2. 02

    Build

    Docker multi-stage → ECR

  3. 03

    CI/CD

    GitHub Actions

  4. 04

    Provision

    Terraform → VPC · EKS

  5. 05

    Deploy

    Helm → Kubernetes

  6. 06

    Observe

    Prometheus · Grafana

  • Terraform
  • AWS EKS
  • Kubernetes
  • Helm
  • Docker
  • GitHub Actions
  • FastAPI
  • PostgreSQL
  • RabbitMQ
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana

04/Skills

The toolchain I use to get software from a commit to a healthy pod.

  • Cloud

    • AWS (EKS, ECR, VPC)
    • Azure
    • GCP
    • Hybrid cloud
    • Linux (Ubuntu, RHEL)
    • Windows Server

  • Containers & Orchestration

    • Kubernetes (CKA)
    • Docker
    • Helm
    • Deployments & scaling
    • Health probes
    • Cluster troubleshooting

  • Automation & CI/CD

    • Terraform
    • Ansible
    • GitHub Actions
    • Git
    • YAML
    • Configuration management

  • Observability

    • Prometheus
    • Grafana
    • RabbitMQ
    • Incident response
    • Production troubleshooting

  • Languages & APIs

    • Python
    • C++
    • C#
    • Bash
    • FastAPI
    • REST APIs
    • Postman

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06/Contact

Open to remote Cloud Platform, DevOps, and Platform Engineering roles.

If you’re building or running Kubernetes in production and need someone who can own the pipeline as well as the code, I’d like to hear about it. The fastest way to reach me is email — I reply to everything.

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