Bilal Siddique - Cloud & DevOps Engineer

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Cloud & DevOps Engineer · Karachi, PK

I'm Bilal Siddique

DevOps EngineerCloud EngineerPlatform Engineer

DevOps Engineer with 1+ year architecting AWS infrastructure, automating CI/CD with Terraform and GitHub Actions, and running observability across microservices. Full-stack background in Next.js and NestJS — applied to internal ops dashboards, cost visibility, and production platform work.

AWSTerraformDockerGitHub ActionsECSPrometheusGrafanaOpenTelemetryNestJSNext.js

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~/infra · prod

$git push origin main

->triggered: deploy-ecs.yml · run #312 · a3f8c2e

◆[1/4] ci — lint · unit tests · security scan

->all checks passed · 34s

◆[2/4] build — docker buildx · multi-arch

->ecr push app:a3f8c2e · sha256:8f3a... · 220 MB

◆[3/4] infra — terraform apply (drift check)

->ecs task def :47 registered · no drift

✓[4/4] deploy — 3/3 tasks healthy · otlp traces OK

AWS infrastructure: 1+ year hands-on
CI/CD automation: 80% less manual work
Full-stack applied: Ops dashboards & APIs

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Selected production work

Systems built to work in the real world.

Cloud platforms, observability, and product tooling designed for reliable delivery.

05Featured builds

E-commerce & Platform EngineeringCase study

Featured project

Glint Jewels Commerce & Operations Platform

Built Glint Jewels’ self-hosted commerce platform on AWS EC2, with multi-courier shipping and custom merchant operations.

A production commerce platform for Glint Jewels, built as a Yarn and Turborepo monorepo. It combines a Next.js storefront and merchant dashboard with a NestJS API, multi-courier fulfillment for Leopards, TRAX/Sonic, and PostEx, plus finance and inventory reporting with optional private Metabase.

GitHub ActionsNode.jsEC2Linux/Unix

Cloud Operations

ECS Monitor Pro

Internal admin dashboard for an AWS ECS cluster: real-time container metrics, task counts, cluster health, Cost Explorer visualizations, Cloudflare geo-blocking, user management, ECS log viewer, and mass email for beta users and applicants.

AWS ECSGitNode.js

Observability Platform

Observability Stack

Designed and deployed Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and Tempo on EC2; instrumented all backend microservices with OpenTelemetry (OTLP) for metrics, logs, and distributed traces with log-to-trace correlation in Grafana.

GitNode.jsPrometheus

Internal Ops Tooling

Startup Admin Platform

Admin panel for a multi-tenant restaurant SaaS — user, restaurant, reservation, and staff management. Full-stack delivery applied to give internal teams one place to review, approve, and moderate platform activity.

Node.jsNestJSTypescript

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Engineering writing

Notes from production systems.

Practical articles on infrastructure, containers, CI/CD, and the backend details that keep startup products reliable in production.

DockerAWSCI/CDLinuxDevOpsBackend

Published articles

Latest focus

containers

Format

Deep dives

DockerAug 4, 202616 min read

Docker's Dirty Secret: Your App Is PID 1, and It Doesn't Know What That Means

Your container's PID 1 isn't just another process — it inherits kernel-level responsibilities most apps were never built to handle. Here's why that silently fills your process table with zombies, why "docker stop" can quietly turn into a force kill, and the 20KB fix that solves both.

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Technical range

Built for delivery, operations, and maintainability.

The stack is centered on cloud foundations, deployment automation, observability, and backend reliability — with product engineering where it supports production outcomes.

Operating model

Infrastructure that can be repeated, reviewed, and recovered.
Pipelines that reduce release risk instead of adding ceremony.
Telemetry that makes production behavior visible before customers report it.

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Cloud & Infra

AWS production infrastructure, networking, container runtime, and cost-aware hosting.

AWS ECSEC2VPCALBIAMACMECRCloudWatch

CI/CD

Automated ECS and EC2 deployments with repeatable release paths.

GitHub ActionsECR pipelinesZero-downtime deploymentsECS deploymentsEC2 deploymentsInfrastructure as Code

Observability

Metrics, logs, traces, and log-to-trace workflows for microservices.

PrometheusGrafanaLokiTempoOpenTelemetryOTLPDistributed tracingLog-trace correlation

Backend

API services, queues, caches, and data layers for product systems.

Node.jsNestJSExpress.jsREST APIsMongoDBRedisRabbitMQPostgreSQL

Frontend

Dashboards, admin panels, and SaaS interfaces with modern React tooling.

TypescriptReact.jsTailwind CSSshadcn/uiNext.jsTanStack QueryRedux-Toolkit

Dev Practices

Practical engineering habits for delivery, operations, and collaboration.

GitLinux/UnixShell scriptingMicroservicesAgile/ScrumSecurity-aware deployments

Core stack signal

AWS ECSEC2VPCALBIAMACMECRCloudWatchCost ExplorerCloudflareDockerDocker ComposeNginxTerraformGitHub ActionsECR pipelinesZero-downtime deploymentsECS deployments

Experience

Cloud, DevOps, and platform engineering in production.

Code Reroute · Apr 2024 - Present

Junior DevOps / Cloud Engineer @ Code Reroute

Apr 2024 - Present

Pioneered DevOps culture in a startup by adopting Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and automating end-to-end CI/CD pipelines via GitHub Actions, cutting manual release effort by 80%.
Architected production-grade AWS ECS infrastructure with Terraform, provisioning VPC, ALB, IAM roles and policies, OIDC providers, ACM certificates, and ECR repositories.
Optimized Docker images from 930 MB to 220 MB, improving build times and reducing ECR storage costs.
Migrated deployment strategy from ECS to EC2 with Docker Compose for pre-launch cost optimization, including Nginx and SSL certificate auto-renewal.
Implemented observability with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, and OpenTelemetry — enabling distributed tracing and log-to-trace correlation.
Developed internal ops dashboards with Next.js, NestJS, AWS SDK, CloudWatch Logs, Cost Explorer, Cloudflare, and Resend.

Academic Foundation

Engineering fundamentals that still shape production work.

B.Sc. Software Engineering at NED University of Engineering & Technology — cloud, security, algorithms, and systems thinking applied to DevOps.

GraduatedB.Sc. Software Engineering

NED University of Engineering & Technology

Software Engineering

Karachi, Pakistan

2019 - 2023

Engineering foundation

Academic fundamentals in distributed systems, security, and algorithmic efficiency — carried into cloud, IaC, and production operations.

Cloud & Systems

Cloud Computing

Security & Data

Data Encryption & SecurityData Mining

Core CS

Data Structures & Algorithms (DSA)Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)

How the degree shows up in production

Rigorous grounding in distributed computing, networking protocols, algorithm complexity, and operating systems.
Applied cryptography, data encryption, and software security fundamentals to secure production architectures.
Developed end-to-end full-stack and systems projects translating academic CS principles into scalable engineering solutions.

Services

Make production feel less complicated.

DevOps, cloud infrastructure, observability, internal ops dashboards, and backend APIs for production systems.

Production infrastructure

DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure

For startups and product teams that need reliable AWS infrastructure without manual release work. I design the path from code push to deployed service, with Terraform, Docker, GitHub Actions, and clear operating visibility.