Hello, I'm Majid. DevOps and AWS cloud engineer in Adelaide.

DevOps and cloud lead who speaks backend.

I architect backends, automate deployments, and deliver infrastructure that scales smoothly and securely.

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  1. Plan

    Product needs become a clean code architecture.

    APIs, queues, data models

  2. Build

    Every change is tested, built and scanned.

    Unit and E2E tests, Docker, SAST/DAST

  3. Ship

    Pipelines promote it through each stage, and IaC applies the infrastructure.

    GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Terraform

  4. Run

    Rolling deploys onto auto-scaling nodes, with zero downtime.

    EKS, ECS, auto scaling, Ansible

  5. Protect

    Traffic is filtered at the edge and watched for threats.

    CloudFront, WAF, network firewall, GuardDuty

  6. Observe

    Infrastructure and app are monitored end to end.

    CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry

Currently DevOps Lead at Simple, and building SaaS products

From products to platforms

Simple

DevOps Lead, since September 2025

Simple is an internationally recognised and awarded full-service marketing agency, with bases in Adelaide and Melbourne.

I lead cloud infrastructure: rightsizing and automation on AWS, hardening and WAF policies, monitoring and alerting, and the CI/CD pipelines that ship the agency's web applications.

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~40%

better AWS cost efficiency, with the same reliability and performance

~60%

fewer security incidents after infrastructure hardening and firewall tuning

AWS, WAF, IaC, CI/CD, Monitoring, Stripe, Zoho and Salesforce integrations

Depicter

Revolutionizing interactive content and lead generation

Depicter empowers users to create interactive content that elevates lead generation to new heights.

I helped shape it into a user-friendly product, architected the back-end, set up infrastructure monitoring, and built reliable CI/CD pipelines to support its growth.

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Phlox

Versatile and exclusive theme framework

Phlox Pro represents our vision of perfect harmony between design and functionality, empowering your website with unmatched elegance and efficiency.

My leadership in the development team and hands-on approach in creating an exclusive theme framework brought Phlox to the market, empowering over 100K websites worldwide.

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Master Slider

Elevating animations in web content

Master Slider is about transforming websites into vibrant, storytelling canvases with just a few clicks. It’s the essence of dynamic web design, simplified.

As the backend leader of Master Slider, my strategic direction and development efforts have elevated the plugin to over 500K downloads, making it a key tool for enhancing web interactivity and design across the globe.

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From the API down to the server

Over a decade of backend work and 6+ years in DevOps. Here's what I use at each layer of the stack, and what it has delivered.

  1. Backend

    APIs, data and architecture

    • PHP
    • Laravel
    • Symfony
    • Craft CMS
    • WordPress
    • REST APIs
    • MySQL
    • PostgreSQL
    • DynamoDB
    • Pub/Sub
    • Queues
    • EventBridge

    500K+ downloads of Master Slider, built as backend lead

  2. Delivery

    CI/CD, testing and release flow

    • GitLab CI
    • GitHub Actions
    • Bitbucket Pipelines
    • Cypress
    • Playwright
    • Laravel Dusk
    • SAST/DAST
    • Git flow

    30% faster build and deploy times with automated pipelines

  3. Containers

    Packaging and orchestration

    • Docker
    • Kubernetes
    • EKS
    • ECS

    20% lower cloud costs after moving to Kubernetes

  4. Infrastructure as code

    Repeatable environments

    • Terraform
    • AWS SAM
    • CloudFormation
    • Ansible

    60% faster provisioning with Terraform automation

  5. AWS cloud

    Compute, storage and messaging

    • EC2
    • Lambda
    • S3
    • RDS
    • Aurora
    • Route 53
    • ALB
    • API Gateway
    • SQS
    • SNS

    ~40% better AWS cost efficiency through rightsizing

  6. Observability

    Metrics, dashboards and alerts

    • Prometheus
    • Grafana
    • CloudWatch
    • Alerting

    Prometheus jobs, Grafana dashboards and alerts for full infrastructure visibility

  7. Security

    Access, network and hardening

    • IAM
    • VPC
    • KMS
    • WAF
    • GuardDuty
    • Security Hub

    ~60% fewer security incidents after hardening

  8. Systems

    Linux and networking

    • Ubuntu
    • CentOS
    • Bash
    • DNS
    • Load balancing
    • NAT
    • VPN

    12 VPS instances managed with Ansible and Terraform

Leadership Mentoring, knowledge-sharing sessions on CI/CD, Agile and Scrum, weekly releases with a 94% customer satisfaction score.

Learning AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Associate. In progress, expected December 2026.

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Animated AWS architecture: user requests pass through AWS WAF and a load balancer to pods on EKS, which use RDS Aurora, S3, and SQS with Lambda, monitored by CloudWatch and Grafana. A GitLab CI deployment rolls the pods from v1 to v2 with zero downtime, WAF blocks malicious requests, and the cluster scales from 3 to 4 pods. v2 live, zero downtime GitLab CI → EKS Users AWS WAF rate rules ALB EKS 4 pods v2 v2 v2 v2 RDS Aurora S3 SQS → Lambda CloudWatch + Grafana all services healthy