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Hi, I'm Syed Mehfooz C S Syed Mehfooz!

DevOps Engineer

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Software Engineer · Cloud/DevOps Engineer
 
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DevOps Engineer, System Administrator with hands-on project experience in CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, cloud technologies, and DevOps automation. Familiar with automating workflows, containerization, deployment processes, and infrastructure management. Passionate about continuous learning, improving software delivery, and applying DevOps best practices to build reliable and scalable systems.
 
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Projects

EC2 Instance Launcher
AWS Infrastructure Automation

EC2 Instance Launcher

A clean, production-style Bash script that automates the process of launching an AWS EC2 instance using the AWS CLI. It acts as a lightweight alternative to IaC tools for simple deployments, featuring modular functions, automatic AWS CLI installation, credential validation, strict error handling, and environment-based configuration (.env).

Linux Automations Toolkit
User Management & Automated Backups

Linux Automations Toolkit

A comprehensive interactive bash script designed for DevOps engineering tasks. It simplifies user management, system monitoring, and automated backups on Linux systems through an easy-to-use menu-driven interface. Features include creating/deleting users, displaying essential system metrics, automating timestamped directory backups, and keeping a comprehensive audit trail via structured activity logging.

3-Tier Admin Dashboard
Role-Based Access Control System

3-Tier Admin Dashboard

A comprehensive, full-stack 3-Tier Admin Dashboard built natively with React, Node.js, Express, and MongoDB, meticulously designed to demonstrate modern web development and DevOps practices. At its core, the system features a robust Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) engine that provisions fine-grained access permissions across three distinct tiers (Super Admin, Admin, and User), ensuring that only high-level personnel can alter security roles. The entire application is containerized into a sophisticated 4-container architecture orchestrating the frontend, backend, database, and a centralized Nginx ingress proxy over an isolated virtual bridge network. By leveraging strict multi-stage Docker builds and secure HttpOnly cookie authentication, this project showcases a highly optimized, resilient, and enterprise-ready application environment.

Immich Docker Deployment
Infrastructure Automation

Immich Docker Deployment

A minimal, automated Bash script that deploys the Immich self-hosted photo and video backup solution using official release files. It streamlines the installation process by creating the necessary directories, downloading the required Docker Compose configurations, and initializing the stack. The project also includes a comprehensive uninstallation script that safely tears down the stack, removes stray containers, cleans up volumes, and ensures a pristine system state.

Skills

Languages

Python
YAML
JSON
Bash Scripting
Shell Scripting

Version Control & Collaboration

Git
GitHub
GitLab
Jira

Containerisation & Orchestration

Docker
Docker Compose
Dockerfile
Docker Registry
Multi-stage Builds
Kubernetes
K8s Clusters
AWS EKS
Helm
Helm Charts
Service Mesh
RBAC
Auto-scaling

Cloud & AWS

AWS
EC2
S3
VPC
IAM
RDS
EKS
CloudFront
Route 53
Security Groups
Elastic IPs

CI/CD & Automations

Jenkins
GitHub Actions
GitLab CI
Argo CD
n8n
GitOps
Makefile

Observability & Monitoring

Prometheus
Grafana
Uptime Kuma
AWS CloudWatch

Security

SonarQube
Trivy
OWASP

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & Configuration Management

Terraform
Ansible

Operating Systems, Servers & Virtualization

Linux
Windows
macOS
Servers Administration
CLI
Cronjobs
CloudPanel
Virtualization
Proxmox
TrueNAS
VirtualBox
VMware
WSL
NAS

Networking

Networking
DNS Management
Domains
Reverse Proxies
ELB
Firewalls

Hardware & Troubleshooting

PC Assembly
System Optimization
Diagnostics
Performance Tuning

Experience

Software Developer Trainee - Apprenticeship

Commonwealth Bank
Remote - Bengaluru, India
Jan 2026 - Jun 2026
6 Months
  • Completed an apprenticeship focusing on understanding and learning enterprise-level software development and cloud computing practices in a structured training.
  • Gained hands-on exposure to AWS Serverless, Lambda, Cloudtrail, React.js, MongoDB, and used data engineering tools like PySpark, learning how data-driven systems are designed and operated.
AWS Serverless
React.js
MongoDB
PySpark
Cloud Computing

Systems Administrator

Samajh AI
Hybrid - Bengaluru, India
July 2023 - Ongoing
Ongoing...
  • Architected and managed a hybrid on-premises and AWS cloud infrastructure for the firm, to maintain 100% control and security of the sensitive banking and customer data on-premise using Proxmox, and TrueNAS servers, while using AWS for heavy workloads, achieving 99.7% infrastructure uptime.
  • Engineered fault-tolerant and redundant servers, and implemented RAID configurations for data redundancy, and redundant power systems, and achieved 0% data loss, and 99% seamless workflow.
  • Administered Docker containers with persistent datasets, and managed security groups, firewalls, Cloudflare Domains/DNS/Tunnels, and 24/7 monitoring. implemented ticketing systems, and project-tracking platforms and achieved 50% better and faster workflow, and reduced bottlenecks.
AWS
Proxmox
TrueNAS
Docker
Cloudflare
Networking
Monitoring

Software Developer Intern

Hostup Cloud Technologies
On-site - Bengaluru, India
Aug 2025 - Oct 2025
3 Months
  • Developed cloud-native applications using Next.js, implementing authentication, client-side rendering, and bare-metal grid management application reducing page load times by 35%, improving scalability.
  • Worked closely with senior engineers to architect backend features and enhance landing pages, UI components, to achieve 100% responsive pages with efficiency and contributed to technical documentations for reliable development.
Next.js
Cloud-native
React
Frontend Development

Certifications

Ethical Hacker
VERIFIED
Cisco Networking Academy

Ethical Hacker

Comprehensive understanding of legal and compliance requirements, vulnerability assessments, and mitigation strategies.

AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate
VERIFIED
Infosys Springboard

AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate

AWS Cloud concepts, security, architecture, and deployment.

Self-hosted infrastructure - Homelab Server

This portfolio and other services are powered by my custom home server setup running on Proxmox, with Docker containers and Tailscale/Cloudflare Tunnels for secure remote access from anywhere.

server architecture

how my home server infrastructure powers this portfolio and other services

Public Traffic

Browser requests

Remote Admin

Tailscale client

Cloudflare

DNS - CDN - DDoS protection

Tailscale VPN

WireGuard mesh - zero-config

Networking Layer

Routing - Firewalls - VLANs

Bare-metal

AMD Ryzen - 32GB ECC RAM - ZFS RAID - UPS

Proxmox VE

Bare-metal hypervisor - VM & LXC management

Virtual Machines (VMs)

Guest Operating Systems

Ubuntu Server

Linux Environment

Home Assistant OS

Smart Home Automation

macOS

Virtual Mac Environment

Windows Server

Active Directory & Services

TrueNAS Core/Scale

NAS & App Ecosystem

TrueNAS Services

n8n - Immich - Nextcloud - Vaultwarden + More

LXC - Docker Engine

Containerised Services

This Portfolio

Next.js / React

Docker Containers

Prometheus - Grafana - Uptime Kuma + More

Adguard Home

Adblocking & DNS

live services

currently running on my home server infrastructure

Portfolio Website

This website

Nginx Proxy Manager

Reverse proxy for managin...

AdGuard Home

Network-wide ad blocking

Uptime Kuma

Service monitoring

Prometheus

Time-series database & m...

Grafana

Monitoring & analytics das...

Home Assistant

Smart home automation

Vaultwarden

Self-hosted password ma...

Authentik SSO

Identity provider & SSO

Nextcloud

Self-hosted file sharing

Immich

Self-hosted photo manag...

Docker Portainer

Container management int...

n8n

Workflow automation platf...

Tailscale

Secure remote access

WireGuard

Fast & secure VPN

Coolify

Self-hosted PaaS platform

CloudPanel

Server management panel

Code Server

VS Code in the browser

Paperless-ngx

Document management s...

DocMost

Collaborative wiki & docs

Syncthing

Continuous file sync

Stremio

Video streaming platform

Jellyfin

Free software media system

Ollama

Local AI & LLM platform

live & operational
offline

Education

B.E. - Computer Science and Engineering

Visveswaraya Technological University (VTU)· HKBK College of Engineering
2022 - 2026
Computer Science & EngineeringFull-TimeBangalore

Contact

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