waseem

Operator Development & VM Lifecycle Management - Architected multi-operator system in Go (operator-sdk, controller-runtime, kubebuilder) replacing legacy pipeline-based VM provisioning with self-healing, declarative infrastructure - Manages 3-4k VMs across multiple sites through custom CRDs with reconciliation loops handling full lifecycle - Implemented provider abstraction supporting vSphere, VMware, and OpenShift Virtualization with intelligent resource selection - Multi-controller architecture with validation webhooks, finalizers, owner references, and event-driven reconciliation Platform Operations & Hybrid Infrastructure - Operate 13 OKD/OpenShift clusters (100+ nodes) on-premises with Cilium CNI and multi-cluster networking - Driving Infrastructure as Code migration from Terraform to Crossplane for Kubernetes-native operations - Led GitOps adoption via Flux across distributed teams - High availability infrastructure with declarative alerting and configuration as code Observability Platform (Open Source Stack) - Designed and operate full observability stack: Grafana, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Grafana Alloy, Vector - OpenTelemetry-based collection processing hundreds of GB logs/day and millions of active time series - Built SLO dashboards, job summary pages, and developer-facing tooling for CI visibility - Prometheus/PromQL for metrics, distributed tracing for request flows Cross-Team Impact & Technical Leadership - Technical lead for VMware-to-OpenShift migration evaluation shaping enterprise hybrid cloud direction - Rebuilt failed Kubernetes environment for QVS team from scratch, delivered training for ongoing operations - Containerized services and GitOps pipelines for Engineering Workflows teams improving developer experience - Presenter at DevDays 2025 (OpenShift automation, Kubernetes operators) and Automacon - Mentoring engineers across timezones on Kubernetes operations, operator development, and distributed systems

Setup a fully automated Openshift 4.x cluster with the following components automated via Terraform: - vSphere VM's (Including Openshift 4.x installation) - Cisco ACI (APIC) Application profiles and EPGs - Bluecat DNS and Network configurations - F5 Loadbalancers Secure Forwarder Operator - Generates fluentd configuration for the secure forwarder based on different indexes - Used to create ProductConfigs that tells which namespace / app label logs go to which index - Reloads secure-forwarder when the config changes