Cloud Native & Platform Engineering Leader
Aziz Zoaib
Platform Engineering Leader · DevOps Architect · Cloud Native Specialist
I design, build and operate resilient cloud platforms, Kubernetes ecosystems, DevOps transformation programs and AI-powered engineering solutions for enterprise-scale environments.
Professional Focus
About
Engineering reliable platforms for global enterprises
With over 15 years of experience, I have worked across aviation, e-commerce, fintech, telecom and media platforms, helping organizations modernize infrastructure, improve reliability and accelerate delivery.
Award Winning
Recognized for automation, cloud migration and infrastructure transformation work.
MSc Data Science
Combining platform engineering with AI, ML, RAG and automation use cases.
Cloud Native
Deep hands-on expertise across AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, OpenShift and Terraform.
Skills
Technology stack
Career
Experience timeline
Emirates Airlines
Lead DevOps Engineer (SRE)
May 2023 – Present
- • OpenShift and AWS EKS platform engineering
- • GitOps adoption using ArgoCD
- • Observability with AppDynamics, Dynatrace and Splunk
- • Mentoring DevOps engineers on Terraform, Jenkins, GitOps, Helm and Kubernetes
Talabat
Senior DevOps Engineer (SRE)
May 2019 – April 2023
- • Terraform-first infrastructure automation
- • Kubernetes platforms across EKS and GKE
- • Serverless systems using Lambda, SQS, SNS and API Gateway
- • Progressive delivery using Argo Rollouts, ArgoCD and Istio
Fidor Solutions
Senior DevOps Engineer (SRE)
July 2018 – April 2019
- • Kubernetes and Docker Swarm orchestration
- • Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform and CloudFormation automation
- • Prometheus, New Relic and ELK monitoring
StarzPlay
DevOps Engineer
Oct 2015 – Sep 2016
- • CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Git
- • AWS Elastic Beanstalk, EC2, RDS, CloudFront, Route 53
- • Infrastructure automation with Ansible playbooks
- • CDN management across Akamai, Level3, CloudFront and Cedexis
Gemalto & Unified Communications
DevOps / Systems Engineering
2010 – 2015
- • AWS migration, Linux platforms, telecom systems and HA/DR engineering
- • CI/CD, infrastructure automation, cloud operations and enterprise support
Projects
Featured work
Selected projects across AI, Kubernetes, RAG systems, cloud platforms and production web applications.
KubeHealer
AI-powered Kubernetes self-healing platform using ML and reinforcement learning for anomaly detection and automated remediation.
I Quit Scorer
Production scoring web app built for multiplayer game tracking, score history and mobile-first usage.
Future Me
Kubernetes-native RAG app that analyzes your entire GitHub commit history, builds a semantic vector database with Redis Stack and HuggingFace embeddings, and lets you chat with Groq Llama 3 to predict your future career trajectory.
Face Emotions Detector
Real-time facial emotion detection using DeepFace and Streamlit — supports live webcam feed and image upload with multi-face analysis.
Banking Credit Eligibility (SVM)
Credit card eligibility prediction using Support Vector Machine on a banking dataset, with feature scaling and model evaluation.
Wine Quality Prediction
Wine class prediction using Logistic Regression with Lasso regularization and feature engineering on physicochemical properties.
Airbnb Revenue Prediction
Rental income prediction using Logistic Regression and Random Forest on Airbnb listing data, comparing model performance across algorithms.
Recognition
Awards & certifications
Awards
- • Najm Award from Emirates Airlines for the EKAS-MIS data platform deployed for Emirates digital platform
- • Najm Award from Emirates Airlines for automation contributions on the Meal Voucher project at Dubai Airports
- • MSc Data Science research recognition for AI-driven Kubernetes self-healing
- • Redis Hackathon Winner — AI Tinkerers Dubai
- • Special recognition at Talabat for end-to-end AWS infrastructure provisioning with Terraform
- • Special Efforts Award from Gemalto for IBM Private Cloud to AWS migration
Certifications
Writing & Open Source
Community presence
Contact
Let’s build something great together
Available for platform engineering leadership, DevOps transformation, cloud architecture, AI engineering and technical advisory opportunities.