Tauseef Mohiuddin Mohammed

About Tauseef Mohiuddin Mohammed

Location: Chicago, IL | Email: t••••••••@gmail.comAs a Cloud and DevOps Engineer, I don’t just automate tasks, I architect reliability. My passion lies in taking complex, friction-heavy deployment processes and transforming them into sleek,\"zero-touch\" pipelines that empower development teams to ship code without fear. I thrive at the intersection of infrastructure automation, security compliance, and system observability.Throughout my career, I’ve focused on one core mission: eliminating downtime and technical debt through rigorous engineering. Whether orchestrating Kubernetes clusters for fintech giants or designing serverless frameworks for high-volume data ingestion, I approach every challenge with a focus on cost-efficiency and performance.What I bring to the table:1. Impact-Driven Engineering: At Mastercard, I optimized cloud resources to reduce infrastructure spend by monthly and slashed build-to-deployment cycles from 45 to 12 minutes, enabling rapid hotfixes without service interruption.2. Scalable Architecture: I have designed serverless ingestion frameworks capable of handling 2 million daily records with zero downtime and managed microservices supporting thousands of internal users.3. Security-First Mindset: From fortifying Kubernetes clusters against PCI-DSS standards to integrating SonarQube and Vault into pipelines, I believe security should be an enabler, not a bottleneck.4. Automation Expertise: I specialize in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible) to reduce provisioning times from days to hours, ensuring environments are consistent, compliant, and ready for scale.My background spans both AWS and Oracle Cloud ecosystems, backed by AWS Solutions Architect and DevOps Engineer Professional certifications. I am deeply proficient in Terraform, Kubernetes, Jenkins, and Python, always looking for the next opportunity to leverage these tools to solve critical business problems.I am driven by the challenge of building systems that are robust enough to handle peak loads yet flexible enough to evolve with the business. If you are looking for a partner to elevate your cloud strategy or streamline your DevOps culture, let’s connect.Core Tech Stack:1. Cloud: AWS (Lambda, RDS, EC2), Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Azure2. DevOps: Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes (EKS/OKE), Jenkins, GitHub Actions3. Observability: Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana4. Security: IAM, OPA Gatekeeper, DevSecOps, PCI-DSS Compliance

Experience

1. Cloud Engineer

   Uber

   Jun 2025 — Present · IL, US

   Architected immutable infrastructure patterns for regional microservices using Terraform and Amazon EKS, successfullyreducing the deployment pipeline duration from 45 minutes to 12 minutes per build cycle. Engineered a fault-tolerant, event-driven data ingestion layer utilizing AWS Lambda and Amazon Kinesis to process drivertelemetry, sustaining a throughput of concurrent records during peak holiday traffic testing. Overhauled development environment resource allocation by implementing EC2 Spot Instances and Auto Scaling groups,identifying and executing a monthly cloud spend reduction of $4,500 within the first quarter. Spearheaded a security posture assessment across the payment gateway subnet by refining AWS IAM roles and WAFconfigurations, resolving 15 critical vulnerability tickets in coordination with the InfoSec and compliance teams. Integrated distributed tracing and observability using AWS X-Ray and Amazon CloudWatch, decreasing the Mean Time ToDetect (MTTD) for API latency issues by 20 minutes for the backend logistics team.

Education

• DePaul University

  Master's degree, Computer Science

• Lords Institute of Engineering & Technology

  Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science

  2018 — 2022