Arief Shaik

About Arief Shaik

I am a DevOps Engineer focused on building resilient, self-healing infrastructure and eliminating manual toil through automation. My approach moves beyond simple \"click-ops\" to architecting production-grade platforms using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and GitOps principles.I distinguish myself by understanding the systems \"under the hood.\" I have provisioned High-Availability Kubernetes clusters on bare metal using kubeadm, integrating MetalLB, HAProxy, and OpenEBS to simulate true production environments. I believe that to effectively manage the cloud, one must first master the underlying Linux and networking internals.Core Technical Competencies: Orchestration: Kubernetes (building clusters, Helm charts, Ingress), Docker, and Argo CD. Infrastructure as Code: Provisioning scalable resources on GCP and AWS using Terraform and Ansible. CI/CD Automation: Designing end-to-end pipelines with GitHub Actions and Jenkins for containerized applications. Security & Observability: Implementing Secret Management (HashiCorp Vault) and monitoring stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki).I actively document my engineering challenges and technical deep-dives on my blog: https://ariefshaik.hashnode.dev/.I am driven by technical curiosity and a consistency in solving complex infrastructure problems. Let\'s connect to discuss Cloud Native architectures, SRE practices, or platform engineering.

Experience

1. Software Engineer

   Praja App

   Mar 2026 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

Education

• INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

  Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning