Saied Kamali

About Saied Kamali

As an Engineer, I have been responsible for the design, development, testing, and deployment of products that help different companies communicate with their end-clients/customers in deep and technical/personal ways. My understanding of technology stack is built in NodeJS, and Ruby and others on Rails, running on Cassandra, DB, ElasticSearch, and Kafka. I containerize and deploy with Kubernetes on AWS/Azure. I was responsible for product/service builds/deliveries, reliability, scalability, monitoring, and helping define all of this as immutable infrastructure-as-code. I started my career after graduation, over twenty plus years ago as a Software Developer with a company named Valid Logic Systems Inc.in Bay Area, CA in which after two years the company was acquired by Cadence Design Systems Inc. where I continued the rest of my carrier at Cadence which is a major EDA corporation in IC design in Silicon Valley. I am DevOps/Software Configuration Engineer with over twenty-five pulse years of experience of in designing, implementing, and managing complex infrastructures and software build & release lifecycle with proficiency in multiple DevOps tools and technique and knowledgeable in infrastructure automation and configuration management. I am confident in my abilities to contribute to team success.In most cases like Financial, Health, Biotech or Aerospace/Defense or Investments companies like Genomic Health Inc. & Lockheed Martin & Fisher Investments agile Scrum process were used to benefits the organizations

Experience

1. Sr Software Configuration Manager

   Lockheed Martin

   Jan 2022 — Present · US

   SCM/DevOps for CI/CD Plans/Processes for classified/unclassified major defense applications on an end-to-end life cycle from development platforms/Vendor deliverables to Test/Prod environments. Design and implemented scalable, efficient, and secure SCM/DevOps solutions in a cloud environment (AWS).2. Design and implement automated solutions for deploying, managing, and monitoring applications on AWS3. Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for applications running on AWS4. Design and implement automated solutions for provisioning, configuring, and managing AWS services such Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), REST API in API Gateway (REST)5. Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to AWS services6. Monitor and optimize AWS services for cost efficiency7. Architect and manage infrastructure using tools like Kubernetes and Terraform.8. Collaborate with product development, hosting, and QA teams to ensure alignment of DevOps strategies with business objectives.9. Act as a hands-on mentor and guide for junior team members, leading by example to foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement.10. Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate software delivery, data store management, testing, and deployment processes.11. GitLab CI/CD were defined in configuration: Workflow configuration files are written in YAML (Yet Another Markup Language) and are stored in the code\'s repository.12. Performed and supported GitLab-Jira integration. Authored a playbook to support SCM/RM for a generic/LMCO specified for standard, procedures for development teams. Maintained/created GitLab pipelines, for all supported projects lifecycle. Generating/maintain GitLab Config YAML (Yet Another Markup Language) files/runners upon request, for multiple applications MES, PLM, PLM4ADP software, Projects like Data and Analytics, Inner resource and Engineering.

Education

• Santa Clara University

  Master's degree, Computer Science

• University of Sussex

  Bachelor's degree, Electronic & Electrical Engineering