AMIR KHANI

DevOps Engineer

Professional Summary

DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer with over 4 years of comprehensive experience across software development and IT operations. Proven track record of modernizing legacy systems and migrating ERP applications to Cloud-Native, containerized Kubernetes environments. Skilled in bridging the gap between development and operations through CI/CD automation, security hardening, and maintaining production-grade reliability.

Professional Experience

DevOps Engineer

Dec 2023 – Dec 2025

Tadvin Farayand Co.

  • Infrastructure Migration: Architected the migration of a microservices ERP (50+ services) from 15 resource-heavy VMs to a 2-node Kubernetes Cluster, reducing infrastructure costs by 75%.
  • CI/CD Engineering: Built an end-to-end GitOps pipeline using GitLab CI and ArgoCD, reducing deployment time from days to minutes for both backend and multi-repo frontend applications.
  • Observability & Monitoring: Designed a robust observability pipeline utilizing Prometheus, Loki, and Grafana. Built custom dashboards for real-time resource and traffic visualization, while implementing proactive alerting rules with automated routing to Telegram Bot and internal issue trackers (Jira) to accelerate incident response.
  • Security & Traffic Management: Standardized external traffic routing via Nginx Ingress and automated SSL issuance with cert-manager. Enhanced security posture by migrating hard-coded credentials to encrypted Kubernetes Secrets.
  • Documentation: Created a comprehensive knowledge base in Confluence outlining disaster recovery procedures, architectural standards, and deployment workflows.

Network & Systems Administrator

Dec 2023 – Dec 2025
  • Hardware & Virtualization: Managed on-premise data center infrastructure. Configured VMware ESXi to optimize resource allocation, directly enabling the deprecation of legacy VMs.
  • Network Security & Architecture: Designed and secured internal networks using MikroTik and pfSense. Implemented VLAN isolation to segregate production traffic from Veeam-to-Synology backup pipelines.
  • Enterprise IT & Remote Access: Administered Windows Server infrastructure (Active Directory, Domain Controller, internal DNS) for 40+ local endpoints. Established secure remote access for distributed developers utilizing WireGuard VPN and RustDesk.

Front-End Developer

Jun 2023 – Dec 2023
  • ERP Front-End Development: Engineered and maintained the frontend architecture for the company's core microservices ERP using Angular and TypeScript.
  • Cross-Functional Insight: Leveraged deep understanding of the ERP's application logic to architect its eventual migration to a Cloud-Native infrastructure, acting as a crucial bridge between software constraints and DevOps operations.

Freelance Systems Administrator & Web Developer

2021 – Present

Self-Employed

  • Server Optimization: Managed dedicated Linux servers for multiple commercial clients, optimizing Apache, Nginx, and PHP-FPM configurations to sustain 99.9% uptime.
  • Resource Consolidation: Strategically migrated scattered shared-hosting clients into centralized, high-availability dedicated instances, maximizing I/O throughput and reducing collective hosting costs.
  • Full-Stack Implementation: Developed and deployed custom PHP websites, gaining deep, hands-on expertise in Web Server Administration and Linux environment troubleshooting.

Technical Skills

Infrastructure & Cloud

Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Linux, VMware ESXi & vSphere

CI/CD & Automation

GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD (GitOps), Ansible, Harbor, Nexus

Observability

Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK Concepts

Web Servers & Services

Nginx, Apache, PHP-FPM

Scripting & Development

Bash, Python, PHP, TypeScript, Angular

Networking & Security

MikroTik, pfSense, VLAN, Nginx Ingress, cert-manager

Education

B.Sc. in Computer Science

Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch

2022 – Present
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