Ahmed Saiyed

• Deploy and run Next.js applications on Linux with PM2 behind an Nginx reverse proxy, with SSL/TLS via Cloudflare — holding ~99.9% uptime.
• Led emergency response to an AWS Gulf-region outage, migrating EC2 workloads cross-region by snapshotting and copying EBS volumes with minimal downtime.
• Containerised a monolithic server into a multi-image Docker build on GCP Cloud Run, cutting deployment time by ~40%.
• Rolled out self-hosted apps with Coolify across Hetzner and DigitalOcean, lowering hosting costs by ~30%.
• Automated internal processes and third-party integrations with n8n, saving the team ~10 hours a week.
• Built and maintain GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines across projects, improving release consistency by ~50%.
• Set up end-to-end observability: Google Cloud Ops Agent for server metrics and logs, Uptime Kuma for uptime checks, and email alerts when a site goes down or CPU spikes — paired with ClickUp so every alert lands as a tracked task.
• Built on-demand preview deployments for a monolithic application: GitHub Actions spins up a per-branch environment with its own database and two Next.js services for developers, plus an automatic teardown that deletes the preview server when it's no longer needed.

uptime

99.9%

faster deploys

~40%

lower hosting cost

~30%

saved / week

~10h

• Deployed and secured .NET Web APIs, WordPress sites and SOC dashboards on AWS using IIS, EC2 and Nginx.
• Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform for consistent, repeatable environments.
• Implemented CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitHub Actions, accelerating release cycles.
• Integrated DevSecOps practices across AWS VPC, IAM and GuardDuty to harden the estate.

• Designed AWS solutions and hardened cloud security across the environment.
• Ran penetration testing and IAM governance, uncovering vulnerabilities across 10+ systems.

Bachelor of Computer Applications with a specialisation in IT — cloud computing, cybersecurity and modern software development.