Fahad Ameen Rajput
DevOps, Security & Compliance Engineer
Hyderabad, Pakistan — remote, UTC+5
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DevOps, security and compliance engineer with 15 years of hands-on Linux, from running game servers at 11 to principal roles today. I'm Principal DevOps Engineer and Chief Security Officer at a US fintech, Principal DevOps Engineer at a Canadian edtech, and was CTO of an 18-person team at an Australian property startup. I build pipelines, cloud infrastructure and the compliance evidence behind them (SOC 2, GLBA, GDPR), and look after more than 40 apps and servers. I work under the name Streetlight DevSecOps Division.
Experience
Principal DevOps Engineer & Chief Security Officer
Sep 2025 – present
Genesys Financial Intelligence · United States (remote)
US fintech behind Zovox.app, an AI CFO app for entrepreneurs. Sole infrastructure and security engineer.
- Designed and built a compliance-grade observability and audit system from nothing
- SOC 2, GLBA and GDPR control and evidence systems, zero-trust network segmentation, IAM audits, centralised audit logging and sensitive-data redaction in log pipelines
- CI/CD on GitHub Actions with security scans before staging and blue/green deploys to production
Principal DevOps Engineer
Mar 2025 – present
Dynaread · Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada (remote)
Educational technology for children with dyslexia. Joined as Senior DevOps Engineer, promoted to Principal DevOps Engineer.
- Migrated about a dozen websites and web apps from LAMP 5 to LAMP 8, and MySQL 5 to 8
- Moved sites, microservices and databases from GCP to DigitalOcean
- CI/CD on GitLab with multiple runners, blue/green deployments with zero downtime, and Docker for consistent deploys
CTO & Engineering Lead
Nov 2023 – Sep 2025
Homiee · Sydney, Australia (remote)
Australian property-technology startup. Joined as DevOps Engineer, promoted to CTO & Engineering Lead of a team of 18 (11 developers, 3 designers, 2 scraping engineers, 2 data-pipeline engineers).
- Built the mapping engine that places 95% of addresses on the right building automatically
- Processed 15 million addresses in 30 hours, with map API responses at or under 500 ms
- Set up CI/CD for every microservice and owned every technical side of the company
Freelance DevOps & Security Engineer
Sep 2023 – present
Upwork · Remote
Started with web scraping and data work and moved into DevOps and security.
- 100% Job Success, 5.0★ rating, 850+ hours
- Rising Talent within four weeks; held Top Rated for almost a year
Junior Web Developer
Dec 2022 – Mar 2023
Zekab Solutions · Lahore, Pakistan
- React front ends, Express and Node application tiers, Mongoose back ends and DevOps
Owner
May 2021 – Jan 2022
K. Group of Hotels Pvt. Ltd. · Kumrat Valley, Pakistan
Seasonal hotel business hosting about 350 guests a week.
- Designed, hosted and secured the booking platform on DigitalOcean with Docker
Owner
Aug 2020 – Aug 2022
Tour Takers Pvt. Ltd. · Lahore, Pakistan
Tour company running four-day tours every weekend; the network it built led into hospitality.
Selected projects
Compliance-grade observability and audit system
Sep 2025 – present
Genesys Financial Intelligence
Designed and built as the lead engineer for a fintech: the controls and the evidence an auditor asks for.
Homiee
The engine behind an Australian property platform that places 95% of addresses on the right building automatically.
Skills
- DevOps & CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Blue/green deployments, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform
- Cloud: GCP, AWS, DigitalOcean, Cloudflare
- Security & Compliance: SOC 2, GLBA, GDPR, Zero Trust, IAM audits, Keycloak, Audit logging
- Observability: Elasticsearch, Kibana, Loki, Prometheus, Grafana, Grafana Alloy
- Linux & Web Servers: Linux, Bash, Apache, Nginx, SFTP chroot jails, PM2
- Development: JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, React, Next.js, Python, PHP, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis
Certifications
Education
Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering
2019 – 2023
COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus
Intermediate
2015 – 2017
Punjab College, Okara
Secondary education
2005 – 2015
St. Bonaventure's High School, Hyderabad
Languages
- English — Fluent
- Urdu — Native or bilingual
- Punjabi — Native or bilingual
- Sindhi — Native or bilingual
- Haryanvi — Professional working
- Siraiki — Limited working
Interests
- Science: Astrophysics, Quantum computing
- Technology: RAG, MLOps
- Strategy: Chess
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