Raza Lakhani

Developer/IaC

AJSCube LLC

Oct 2022 - Present • 3 yrs 9 mos

Under this engagement, I deliver advanced-level cloud-native software engineering services tailored for critical systems, for a US-based IT services company. My work spans high-assurance development in Python, CI/CD at scale, hardened image pipelines, message-driven serverless computation, and resilient infrastructure provisioning, including highly secure and reactive Python Django/Flask event-driven integration microservices deployed to Amazon EKS with strict RBAC and egress constraints, CI-integrated automated test suites with mutation testing (PITest), chaos engineering (Litmus), and contract validation (Pact), full-lifecycle GitOps pipelines for development and deployment stages using ArgoCD, Tekton, and GitHub Actions with Sigstore-based artifact verification, secure software supply chain solutions with end-to-end SBOM (CycloneDX) and SLSA compliance, and advanced Ansible automation playbooks for hardened and compliant RHEL8 AMIs incorporating stringent security.

Cloud Architect/Consultant

Fiverr gigs

Mar 2022 - Apr 2023 • 1 yr 1 mo

Delivered over 50 discrete scripting, automation and cloud enablement tasks for international clients, with a focus on infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and security automation within AWS environments; authored and maintained dozens of Python and Bash scripts for automating AWS operations, log processing, cron-driven tasks, and EC2 lifecycle control; delivered IaC artifacts using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and shell scripts for VPCs, IAM policies, S3 lifecycle rules, security groups, and Lambda triggers.; Transit Gateway deployments; lightweight DevSecOps workflows for auditing, patching, and logging using AWS CLI, Boto3, AWS Config, and Amazon Inspector.