I take AI-built and early-stage apps from “works on my machine” to running reliably in production — deployments, scaling, CI/CD, and observability.
I’m Talha — a DevOps engineer who came up as a software engineer first. I work across Kubernetes, GKE, KEDA autoscaling, Dockerized services, GitLab and GitHub CI/CD, observability, incident response, and hardened Linux deployments.
I take 1–2 engagements at a time alongside my full-time role — async-first, ~4h daily US/EU overlap. Based in Pakistan, working with US and EU teams.
Raised capacity from ~80 to 400+ concurrent users with KEDA-based autoscaling on GKE, backend service isolation, load-test driven pod sizing, and a CI/CD cleanup that cut Next.js build time from 6 min to 2 min.
Personal builds, not client work. No users and no production traffic — included so you can read the code rather than take my word for the approach.
Designed and deployed a production-style AWS EKS platform using Terraform and GitOps. Eliminated static cloud credentials using IRSA and automated secret delivery with External Secrets Operator, enabling fully declarative infrastructure and application delivery.
You spent months building your product, talking to customers, fixing bugs, and earning every bit of trust. Don't lose it because your infrastructure wasn't ready for growth.
I'll tear down your production architecture and deliver a prioritized engineering report showing what is most likely to fail, why it matters, and what to fix—before your customers discover it for you. Report in your inbox within one week of access.
Founder rate for the first three teardowns — $2,500 instead of $3,500 — in exchange for a public case study and a named testimonial.
“I'd confidently recommend Talha to any team looking for a reliable, autonomous DevOps or Platform Engineer.”
“I would trust Talha with an ambiguous production issue and expect him to return not just with a fix, but with a clear understanding of the root cause.”
// The Target
Fragile infrastructure converted into automated code.
High-velocity pipelines, Docker builds, instant preview environments, and zero-downtime rollbacks.
Production GKE clusters, KEDA/HPA event-driven autoscaling, pod isolation, and resource cost-tuning.
GCP, hardened Linux servers, self-hosted PaaS (Coolify/Dokploy), and Cloudflare edge architecture.
Prototypes that work in a demo break under real users. I containerize the app, build the CI/CD pipeline, wire up secrets, health checks, and rollback-safe deploys — so you can ship to real customers without babysitting it.
I right-size your infrastructure with autoscaling, Kubernetes resource tuning, and infrastructure-as-code — so the system handles real traffic growth without paying for idle capacity.
I tighten IAM, secrets handling, container and CI/CD security, and Linux server hardening — closing the obvious holes before they turn into incidents.
Latest writing on DevOps, CI/CD, containers, and platform engineering across Medium and Carbonteq.
How chezmoi turns shell configs, Git settings, editor setup, and terminal tooling into a reproducible developer environment.
Recent Writing
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How I automated mobile QA by running Appium tests on BrowserStack, generating reports, emailing results, and uploading artifacts back to GitLab.
How I built a GitLab pipeline that decides whether a React Native change needs a full Expo native build or can safely ship as an OTA update.
A practical explanation of how Podman differs from Docker, why rootless containers matter, and how to run a simple app with Podman.
Formal education and published undergraduate research.
Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
FYP Expo @ GIKI
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If your deploys are scary, your CI/CD is held together by hope, or your AI-built app needs to survive real users — that's what I fix. Founders and small engineering teams: book a 30-min call and I'll tell you straight whether I can help.
I take 1–2 engagements at a time alongside my full-time role — async-first, ~4h daily US/EU overlap.
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