Resume

resume.json

{
  "basics": {
    "name": "Juned Memon",
    "label": "DevOps | Platform Engineering | Cloud-Native Systems | System Engineer | Cloud Architect | LLM Integrator | AI/ML Systems",
    "picture": "https://github.com/junaid18183.png",
    "image": "https://github.com/junaid18183.png",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "phone": "+91-98238-41436",
    "summary": "Versatile DevOps and Platform Engineering expert with 18+ years of hands-on experience designing scalable cloud-native solutions, Kubernetes-first architectures, and AI-integrated developer platforms. Adept at leading cross-functional teams.",
    "location": {
      "city": "Pune",
      "region": "Maharashtra",
      "countryCode": "IN"
    },
    "url": "https://junaid18183.github.io/blog",
    "profiles": [
      {
        "network": "LinkedIn",
        "username": "junaid18183",
        "url": "https://linkedin.com/in/junaid18183"
      },
      {
        "network": "GitHub",
        "username": "junaid18183",
        "url": "https://github.com/junaid18183"
      },
      {
        "network": "Twitter",
        "username": "@junaid18183",
        "url": "https://twitter.com/junaid18183"
      }
    ]
  },
  "education": [
    {
      "institution": "North Maharashtra University",
      "area": "Computer Science",
      "studyType": "Bachelor of Engineering",
      "startDate": "2000",
      "endDate": "2004",
      "score": "65.71% (First class with distinction)"
    },
    {
      "institution": "Nashik",
      "area": "Higher Secondary Certificate",
      "studyType": "HSC",
      "startDate": "1998",
      "endDate": "2000",
      "score": "71.83% (First class)"
    },
    {
      "institution": "Nashik",
      "area": "Secondary School Certificate",
      "studyType": "SSC",
      "startDate": "1996",
      "endDate": "1998",
      "score": "68.53% (First class)"
    }
  ],
  "certificates": [
    {
      "name": "Certified Kubernetes Developer (CKAD)",
      "date": "2020-11-24",
      "issuer": "Linux Foundation",
      "url": "https://www.youracclaim.com/badges/39b75d40-5a4b-46c9-965a-5cbc86abec9f/public_url"
    },
    {
      "name": "Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)",
      "date": "2018-10-16",
      "issuer": "Linux Foundation",
      "url": "https://www.youracclaim.com/badges/39b75d40-5a4b-46c9-965a-5cbc86abec9f/public_url"
    },
    {
      "name": "AWS SysOps Administrator – Associate",
      "date": "2018-07-11",
      "issuer": "Amazon Web Services",
      "url": "https://www.youracclaim.com/badges/9a441b51-6587-4135-a664-0e504c73d317/public_url"
    },
    {
      "name": "AWS Solutions Architect – Associate",
      "date": "2018-06-27",
      "issuer": "Amazon Web Services",
      "url": "https://www.youracclaim.com/badges/988261f3-7e65-4700-ad70-1be5fd3c854c/public_url"
    },
    {
      "name": "ITIL V3 Foundation",
      "date": "2011-10",
      "issuer": "EXIM",
      "url": "https://github.com/junaid18183/junaid18183/blob/main/juned-memon-ITILV3-certificate.pdf"
    }
  ],
  "languages": [
    {
      "language": "English",
      "fluency": "Professional working proficiency"
    },
    {
      "language": "Hindi",
      "fluency": "Native or bilingual proficiency"
    },
    {
      "language": "Marathi",
      "fluency": "Native or bilingual proficiency"
    }
  ],
  "skills": [
    {
      "name": "Cloud & Platform Engineering",
      "keywords": [
        "AWS (Commercial & GovCloud)",
        "Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)",
        "Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Architecture",
        "Cloud-Native Platforms",
        "Air-Gapped Infrastructure",
        "Backstage Developer Portal",
        "Cloud Cost Optimization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Linux, Systems & Infrastructure Administration",
      "keywords": [
        "Linux System Administration",
        "Shell Scripting",
        "System Monitoring & Hardening",
        "Configuration Management (Ansible, Chef, Puppet)"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Kubernetes & Container Orchestration",
      "keywords": [
        "Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE, RKE2, K3S, OKE)",
        "Development of Helm Charts & Custom Kubernetes Controllers/Operators",
        "Service Mesh (Istio, Linkerd)",
        "OPA Gatekeeper, Kyverno",
        "Platform One Big Bang",
        "Docker, ECS , Compose and Swarm"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "DevSecOps, GitOps & Automation",
      "keywords": [
        "GitOps (fluxCD, ArgoCD)",
        "CI/CD Pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins)",
        "Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Crossplane)",
        "Secrets Management (Vault, SOPS)"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Observability, Monitoring & SRE",
      "keywords": [
        "Prometheus & Grafana",
        "OpenTelemetry",
        "KubeVela",
        "Kubernetes Dashboard and Headlamp",
        "Nagios, Check_MK, Datadog",
        "Jaeger & Distributed Tracing",
        "ELK Stack, Fluentd, Loki",
        "Alerting & Incident Management (PagerDuty, OpsGenie)",
        "SLOs, SLIs, Error Budgets"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Security & Compliance",
      "keywords": [
        "DISA STIG Compliance",
        "CIS Benchmarks",
        "Container Security (Trivy, Twistlock, Anchore)",
        "Infrastructure Security Scanning (Checkov, tfsec)"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "AI/ML & LLM Integration",
      "keywords": [
        "Kubeflow , MLFlow",
        "LangChain, LangFlow, LLM Agents",
        "OpenAI API, HuggingFace Transformers",
        "Prompt Engineering",
        "Model Context Protocol (MCP)",
        "Vector Databases (Chroma, Pinecone)",
        "Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Programming, Scripting",
      "keywords": [
        "Bash",
        "Python",
        "Golang"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Product & Team Leadership",
      "keywords": [
        "Internal Developer Platform (IDP) Design",
        "Cross-Functional Team Leadership",
        "Mentoring & Coaching",
        "Stakeholder Communication",
        "Agile & Scrum Practices",
        "Roadmap Planning & Delivery",
        "Hiring & Performance Reviews",
        "Conflict Resolution"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "projects": [
    {
      "name": "ENBUILD",
      "description": "ENBUILD is a turnkey DevSecOps platform simplifying Kubernetes and Platform One Big Bang deployments across multi-cloud and on-premise environments.",
      "url": "https://enbuild-docs.vivplatform.io/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Hitachi Accelerator Cloud Platform (HCAP)",
      "url": "https://www.reancloud.com/",
      "description": "HCAP is a suite of products to accelerate the migration and deployment, assessment of applications on Public Clouds."
    },
    {
      "name": "Terradata TMC",
      "url": "https://www.reancloud.com/",
      "description": "At REAN Cloud, contributed to the design and implementation of an automated, API-driven provisioning system with a management UI for deploying VLAN-segregated TMC application instances across IntelliFlex™, IntelliBase™, and AWS for the Teradata TMC team."
    },
    {
      "name": "LiteNing",
      "url": "https://www.ning.com/",
      "description": "LiteNing was an effort to merge the infrastructure and tooling of Ning Inc and mode media/glam media, after it was acquired."
    }
  ],
  "work": [
    {
      "name": "VivSoft / AIML2",
      "company": "VivSoft / AIML2",
      "url": "https://www.vivsoft.io/",
      "position": "DevSecOps Lead & Platform Architect",
      "startDate": "2021-09-13",
      "summary": "Led the architecture and development of Open Source platform ENBUILD a human-centered UI accelerator that simplifies and automates the deployment of P1's Big Bang DevSecOps platform enabling secure, compliant, and rapid Kubernetes-based software factory setups across cloud or on-premises environments",
      "highlights": [
        "Architected, built, and stabilized the ENBUILD platform as part of the VivSoft Platform Team to support secure  deployment of Kubernetes clusters and solutions on kubernetes.",
        "Integrated opinionated installations of DoD's Platform One Big Bang and Kubeflow into the ENBUILD platform to accelerate secure, ML-ready environments.",
        "Developed backend microservices in Golang for the ENBUILD platform, including LLM-powered chatbots and Terraform code generators",
        "Designed and implemented the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to integrate AI-driven insights with observability tools such as Grafana.",
        "Created infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using Terraform, Helm Charts, and Crossplane Packages to deliver reusable ENBUILD Catalog items for federal clients.",
        "Built and later transitioned from a custom Kubernetes operator in Golang to Crossplane to streamline application deployments.",
        "Implemented GitOps workflows using Argo CD and Flux CD for consistent, version-controlled CI/CD across multiple Kubernetes clusters.",
        "Created and maintained hardened AMIs and Docker images aligned with federal security standards to ensure secure software deployments.",
        "Secured ENBUILD containers and achieved Iron Bank approval, meeting stringent DoD compliance requirements.",
        "Deployed robust monitoring and alerting solutions using Prometheus and Grafana to support real-time observability of platform services."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Hitachi Vantara / ReanCloud",
      "company": "Hitachi Vantara / ReanCloud",
      "url": "https://www.hitachivantara.com/en-us/home",
      "position": "Principal Cloud Architect",
      "startDate": "2016-09-21",
      "endDate": "2021-09-09",
      "summary": "Led the global DevSecOps transformation for REAN's accelerator platform, driving its migration to Kubernetes with scalable CI/CD, air-gapped deployments, and federal-grade compliance.",
      "highlights": [
        "Architected and executed a full platform migration to Kubernetes, including Helm packaging and automated CI/CD pipelines for SaaS and client-side deployments.",
        "Developed Terraform-based automation to provision EKS clusters for HCAP platform deployment in both cloud and air-gapped environments, including for US Transcom.",
        "Developed Custom Terraform Providers in Golang for custom tools to be used within HCAP DEPLOY",
        "Designed and implemented secure, Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) compliant hardened AMIs and Docker containers, aligning with federal compliance standards.",
        "Built and deployed cloud accelerator platforms in air-gapped environments, handling installation, configuration, and compliance automation.",
        "Defined resilient microservices deployment strategies for large-scale online portals, improving availability and operational robustness.",
        "Delivered Kubernetes-based CI/CD automation for Independent Software Vendor (ISV) projects, accelerating containerized software delivery.",
        "Migrated legacy workloads to containerized microservices, enhancing scalability, resilience, and maintainability.",
        "Architected multi-region, cost-optimized AWS infrastructure with configuration management.",
        "Led REAN Cloud's Managed Services team, mentoring L1/L2 engineers and establishing standardized processes for cloud operations and support."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Mode Media Corporation / Ning Inc",
      "company": "Mode Media Corporation / Ning Inc",
      "url": "https://www.ning.com/",
      "url_old": "https://techcrunch.com/2011/09/20/glam-buys-ning-andreessen-joins-board/",
      "position": "Senior Manager - Technical Operations",
      "startDate": "2012-10-25",
      "endDate": "2016-09-21",
      "summary": "Led infrastructure operations, cloud migration, and site reliability engineering for a high-traffic media platform serving over 200M monthly users.",
      "highlights": [
        "Led a global team of system engineers to manage and maintain large-scale production infrastructure of around 3000 physical servers and 3000 LXC containers running complex microservices.",
        "Migrated ad-serving platforms from colocated data centers to AWS, re-architecting them into microservices using Docker for enhanced scalability and reliability.",
        "Supported the transition of infrastructure from Ning-managed data centers to Mode Media colocations, ensuring minimal downtime and seamless operations.",
        "Automated bare-metal provisioning and LXC container virtualization using Cobbler, Ansible, and built in tool called Ning Galaxy, significantly reducing infrastructure deployment time.",
        "Implemented a distributed monitoring solution for over 3,000 servers and 50,000+ services using Check_MK and Nagios with custom plugins to improve observability and proactive issue resolution.",
        "Standardized DevOps automation tooling using GitLab, HAProxy, Hadoop, DNS, Slack integrations, private Yum repositories, and custom inventory management.",
        "Centralized cron job orchestration by replacing fragmented scheduling across servers with Jenkins pipelines, improving reliability and auditability.",
        "Built real-time executive dashboards using Dashing to provide unified visibility into infrastructure and application health across the enterprise."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Cybage Software",
      "company": "Cybage Software",
      "position": "Team Lead - Technical Operations",
      "url": "https://www.cybage.com/",
      "startDate": "2007-04-05",
      "endDate": "2012-10-12",
      "summary": "Led infrastructure operations and delivery transitions for clients in media, travel and e-commerce sectors.",
      "highlights": [
        "Managed cross-functional technical teams, implemented robust monitoring systems, and played a strategic role in business development initiatives.",
        "Led infrastructure operations across multiple Remote Infrastructure Management System (RIMs) projects, ensuring SLA adherence and 24x7 uptime.",
        "Successfully transitioned four global operations projects (Rubicon, Proviner, KN-Dimestore, DivXTV), including onboarding, tooling, and knowledge transfer.",
        "Deployed and maintained enterprise-grade monitoring and visualization tools including Nagios, BigBrother, Cacti, Munin, RRDtool, Graphite, and Grafana.",
        "Managed resource allocation, team rosters, and leave planning across multiple support teams to maintain high operational continuity.",
        "Collaborated with Delivery Managers on proposals and client capability presentations, contributing to successful business development and project wins."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "DX Technologies Pvt. Ltd.",
      "company": "DX Technologies Pvt. Ltd.",
      "position": "Technical Support Engineer",
      "url_old": "https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/company/dx-technologies-private-limited/U72200PN2002PTC016679",
      "startDate": "2005-02-24",
      "endDate": "2005-10-31",
      "summary": "Provided L2-L3 technical support for Linux server environments and application monitoring solutions",
      "highlights": [
        "Installation, maintenance and support of Linux Servers and applications ( DXContent Factory, DX-Reader etc )",
        "Delivered L2-L3 technical support for Linux server environments, ensuring high availability and performance."
      ]
    }
  ]
}