Mahdi Azari

DevOps / SRE
DevOps / SRE

Reliable infrastructure, built with care.

Passionate and innovative SRE/DevOps engineer with an aptitude for designing, overseeing, and implementing resilient systems. My journey in the tech industry has honed my problem-solving abilities and fostered a deep interest in new technologies and sustainable computing.

Cloud

Hybrid, GCP, GitHub, Cloudflare

Kubernetes

Platform design and operations

Reliability

High-availability systems

Profile

Passionate and innovative SRE/DevOps Engineer with an aptitude for designing, overseeing, and implementation. My journey in the tech industry has honed my problem-solving abilities and fostered a deep interest in new technologies and sustainable computing. I thrive in dynamic environments, eagerly approaching challenges with agility and autonomy.

Relevant Skills

Languages

Python, Go, C/C++

Cloud

Hybrid, GCP, GitHub, Cloudflare

IaC

Terraform, Ansible, Puppet

Monitoring

Prometheus, Grafana, ElasticSearch, Loki, Promtail

Containers

Docker, Kubernetes

CI/CD

Helm, Argo, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab, Bitbucket

Other

Onload, Solarflare

Relevant Experience

Oct 2023 – Mar 2025Amsterdam

Medior SRE at De Bijenkorf

  • Maintaining Cloudflare infrastructure by keeping a keen eye on organization culture and Cloudflare best practices.
  • Contribution to a self-service cloud platform for developers based on GCP services and infrastructure as code while protecting maintainability and security at scale using Terraform.
  • Supporting a cross-functional team in problem-solving with a multidisciplinary view of the software design and development lifecycle.
  • Contribution to open source Helm charts.
Nov 2022 – Aug 2023Amsterdam

Junior SRE at WEBB Traders

  • Collaborated closely with traders, researchers, and developers to optimize the performance and stability of trading strategies within a distributed environment.
  • Investigated incidents through effective communication with operations, risk management, and BI teams to identify root causes and provide solutions.
  • Streamlined app deployment across various environments by updating deployment scripts and automating server maintenance tasks using Ansible.
  • Improved system throughput by achieving 4 Mpps on a single node, leveraging kernel-bypass, Solarflare network card configuration, and process isolation.
  • Enhanced observability through custom exporters, monitoring running processes while preserving performance.
Jul 2022 – Nov 2022Tehran

DevOps at Bitex

  • R&D: set up a JSON-RPC server compatible with Ethereum's Web3 API for Aurora Engine instances deployed on the NEAR Protocol. Benchmarked with Python scripts and monitored with Prometheus and Grafana.
  • Set up an SNI proxy for the RPC endpoint to bypass network limitations.
  • Set up GitLab CI for Android developers to increase development speed and decrease QA lead time.
  • Accelerated feature development by 20% by setting up CI/CD pipelines for multiple monorepo projects using Jenkins and Gitea.
Nov 2021 – Jul 2022Tehran

DevOps Intern at Arvan Cloud

  • Provisioned a highly available Kubernetes cluster using Ansible.
  • Implemented secure cloud architecture in alignment with infrastructure management best practices.
  • Monitored system performance and resource utilization using Prometheus and Grafana to enable proactive issue resolution.
  • Employed GitLab as the single source of truth for declarative infrastructure and implemented GitOps with Ansible.
  • Dockerized all services for enhanced portability, improved scalability, and simplified deployment.
  • Provisioned a MariaDB cluster with replication and automated failover using MaxScale.
Feb 2020 – Nov 2022Remote

Freelance DevOps at Idealink

  • Designed and managed a highly available AWS infrastructure across three availability zones using Terraform.
  • Configured a VPC with public and private subnets following AWS best practices for secure network isolation.
  • Orchestrated the deployment of an Amazon EKS cluster to create a robust Kubernetes control plane.
  • Created Kubernetes nodes in private subnets to ensure efficient workload distribution and scalability.
  • Handled many ad-hoc tasks for troubleshooting and automating Linux and Windows operations using Bash, PowerShell, and GitHub Actions.

Open Source

GoMon

Distributed and scalable monitoring service to observe the update time of web URLs implemented in Go.

  • Architecture and database design
  • Dockerized app and deployed to Kubernetes

Pull Requests

  • feat(helm): Add Extra Labels to Helm Chart for Enhanced Metadata Management
  • [tempo] fix metadata labels exceeding Kubernetes character limit while using tag digest

Let's work together

Have a project or role in mind? Send me a message.

notMahdiAzari@gmail.com