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Md. Zahirul Islam

Lead Cloud Developer

Hanau, Germany · [email protected] · +49 152 29473129

linkedin.com/in/islam-mdzahirul · zahirulislam.dev · github.com/zahirulislam04

Profile

Lead Cloud Developer with 8+ years automating and scaling multi-account AWS platforms in high-availability, regulated environments. Currently run a multi-tenant platform spanning 400+ customer systems across 4 AWS accounts and 4 regions, using Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, and Ansible. Focused on observability, resilient backup/restore automation, and performance at scale.

Key Achievements

AI-Powered Incident Response

Built the team's first AI root-cause-analysis agent, cutting incident response effort by 70%.

Automated Platform Scaling

Modernized operations to fully automated pipelines, scaling to 400+ customers without added headcount.

End-to-End Observability

Built a full-stack observability platform for near real-time monitoring across the fleet.

Strengthened Platform Resilience

Automated disaster-recovery, backup, and patching across multi-AZ deployments.

Skills

AWS | Terraform | Ansible | GitLab CI/CD | Docker | Kubernetes | Prometheus | Grafana | Wazuh | Python | Bash

Work Experience

Lead Cloud Developer

11.2022 – Present

LORENZ Life Sciences Group, Frankfurt am Main

  • Provisioned infrastructure for 400+ customer systems across 4 AWS accounts and regions.
  • Built an AI agent for root-cause analysis, cutting incident response effort by 70%.
  • Built an observability stack (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo) for near real-time monitoring.

DevOps Engineer

03.2022 – 09.2022

Nordcloud (an IBM Company), Frankfurt am Main

  • Automated CI/CD and provisioning for an IoT data streaming platform on Azure.
  • Designed network architecture for real-time data ingestion and dashboarding.

Working Student, Cloud Developer

12.2020 – 02.2022

LORENZ Life Sciences Group, Frankfurt am Main

  • Built a highly available monitoring solution on Kubernetes with critical-event alerting.

Working Student, IT

06.2019 – 09.2020

Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Frankfurt am Main

  • Automated a VAT processing tool, cutting manual work for the finance team.

Project Lead, IT

05.2011 – 08.2018

IQVIA, Dhaka

  • Led a performance dashboard for Johnson & Johnson, integrating multiple data sources.
  • Managed 10+ SQL Server instances and built ETL processes, cutting manual data work.

Software Engineer

06.2009 – 04.2011

BDG & Technohaven Co. Ltd., Dhaka

  • Built cheque-printing automation and maintained a leasing/investment platform.

Education

M.Sc. High Integrity Systems

Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences

10.2019 – 03.2022

B.Sc. Computer Science and Engineering

Khulna University of Engineering & Technology

01.2005 – 04.2009

Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (2022) | AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (2022) | AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (2021) | HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (2022)

Languages

English — Professional working proficiency | German — Basic knowledge