Saad Mansoor Minhas, DevOps & Cloud Engineer

About me

The engineer behind the green pipelines

📍 Islamabad, PK · UTC+5

I'm a DevOps and cloud engineer who believes the best infrastructure is the kind nobody has to think about. If it's hand-built, undocumented, or only one person understands it, I consider that a bug.

At NextGen Technologies I run Azure infrastructure end-to-end: leading a VDI-to-Microsoft 365 migration, shipping canary deployments on AKS with live traffic splitting, and owning RBAC governance and automated secret rotation. Before that I built AWS platforms and CI/CD pipelines at Cyberoide Tech, and learned the fundamentals properly (Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes) at Emumba.

I cut my teeth doing emergency on-call work for Fiverr clients: broken DNS, failed deploys, runaway auto-scaling at the worst possible hour. It taught me to design systems where the 3 AM call never happens in the first place.

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Multi-cloud, for real

Production experience on both AWS and Azure, not just one console.

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Cost-obsessed

18% off the monthly cloud bill while holding every performance SLA.

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Security-minded

RBAC governance and automated secret rotation, for 30% faster incident response.

Experience

Where I've shipped

May 2025 - Present

● Current

NextGen Technologies
Arlington, TX · Remote

DevOps Engineer L1

Run Azure infrastructure end-to-end: CI/CD pipelines, VMs, VMSS, Key Vaults, Managed SQL.
Leading the Azure VDI → Microsoft 365 migration, improving access and cutting overhead.
Shipped canary releases on AKS with percentage-based traffic splitting, keeping prior versions warm for instant rollback.
Built RBAC governance + automated secret rotation → 30% faster incident response.
Optimized resource usage → 18% lower monthly spend, SLAs intact.

AzureAKSVMSS Key VaultAzure DevOps

Aug 2024 - Apr 2025

Cyberoide Tech
Islamabad · Remote

Junior DevOps Engineer

Deployed and maintained AWS infrastructure for .NET and MSSQL applications.
Built end-to-end CI/CD with GitHub Actions and GitLab CI across dev and production.
Provisioned everything as code with Terraform: repeatable, reviewed, version-controlled.
Worked directly with clients to modernize their AWS architectures.

AWSTerraformGitHub Actions ECSRDS

Jun - Aug 2024

Emumba
Islamabad · Hybrid

DevOps Intern

Automated cloud infrastructure with Terraform: EC2, VPCs, RDS, S3, DynamoDB.
Wrote Ansible playbooks; built multi-stage pipelines with GitHub Actions and Jenkins.
Deployed Kubernetes clusters; configured HAProxy/NGINX load balancing and firewalls.

TerraformAnsibleJenkins Kubernetes

May 2023 - Aug 2024

Fiverr
Remote

Freelance DevOps Engineer

Emergency AWS on-call: DNS failures, broken deploys, runaway auto-scaling in live production.
Designed an ECR → EC2 → ASG → ALB → Route53 stack, all Terraform, automated with Bitbucket Pipelines.
Built highly-available ECS infrastructure from modular, reusable Terraform.

AWSTerraformRoute53 Bitbucket Pipelines

Selected work

Built, shipped, and running in production

AWS · Terraform

High-availability AWS architecture ↗

ECR → EC2 → ASG → ALB → Route53, fully Terraform-provisioned with push-to-deploy via Bitbucket Pipelines. Zero-downtime releases, self-healing fleet.

TerraformAuto ScalingRoute53

AKS · Kubernetes

Canary deployments on AKS ↗

Percentage-based traffic splitting for production workloads, with the previous version kept warm, so rollback is a traffic switch measured in seconds.

AKSCanaryAzure DevOps

CI/CD

End-to-end CI/CD pipelines ↗

Multi-stage pipelines for .NET workloads: automated builds, tests, encrypted secrets, and stage-gated deploys. Releases became an approval click.

GitHub ActionsGitLab CIJenkins

IaC · Terraform

Modular Terraform platform ↗

Reusable modules for EC2, VPC, RDS, S3, and DynamoDB, so new environments stamp out in minutes instead of days, configured by Ansible.

TerraformAnsibleMulti-env

Skills

My daily drivers

☁️Cloud platforms

EC2LambdaS3 VPCIAMECS EKSRDSRoute53 AKSACRVMSS Key VaultAzure Monitor

📦Containers & orchestration

DockerDocker Compose KubernetesHelmArgo CD

🚀CI/CD

GitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CD JenkinsAzure DevOps Bitbucket Pipelines

🏗️Infrastructure as code

TerraformOpenTofu CloudFormationAnsible

📈Observability

PrometheusGrafana KibanaSonarQube CloudWatch

🔐Networking & systems

NGINXHAProxyDNS TLSLinuxBash PythonGit

Credentials

Education & certifications

Degree

B.S. Computer Science

Air University Islamabad · 2021 - 2025

AWS

AWS Cloud Technical Essentials + Fundamentals Specialization

Coursera / Amazon Web Services: core services, networking, security, databases

DevOps

DevOps on AWS Specialization

Coursera: CI/CD, infrastructure as code, monitoring, microservices

I make cloud infrastructure
ship faster & cost less.