Hey, I'm
Zainul Ariffin.

Zainul Ariffin
β€œGreat engineers are lazy innovators automating life.”

I am always thinking of new ways and ideas to improve existing systems and processes with technology. Building applications and solutions is my favorite hobby. I put in effort daily to constantly improve my skills in order to build better applications.

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Education and Experience

  • Manage 24/7 production reliability through rotating on-call shifts, mitigating alerts and coordinating hotfixes

    Embedded with Connectors team to provision infrastructure, cloud resources, and CI/CD pipelines for microservices

    Designed automated disaster recovery testing framework using Chaos Toolkit, reducing DR testing time by 70%

    Established observability and incident response efficiency with Grafana/Prometheus dashboards and automated alerts

    AWSTerraformKubernetesKustomizeGrafanaPrometheusCI/CDArgoCDPythonChaos Toolkit
  • Engineered Trust/EnTrust/EnTrust lite platforms on GCC 2.0 for secure data access by researchers

    Developed EnTrust lite Ops Portal v2 frontend with NextJS and implemented Role Based Access Control

    Led full-scope backend and frontend development, provisioned via Terraform with Python serverless functions

    Developed React Electron application for offline handling of large civilian datasets with data anonymization

    TerraformTypescriptNextJSPythonAWSLinuxDockerECSReact
  • Bachelor in Computing Science

    President of SIT Geeks - organized bi-monthly meetups, field trips, and hackathons

    Lead of Google Developer Student Club - organized workshops on emerging technologies

    Multiple hackathon wins including 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places at Glasgow University Tech Society

    LeadershipEvent ManagementCommunity BuildingPublic Speaking
  • Diploma in Information Technology

    Won 2nd Prize for IDA Data Driven Challenge 2016

    Awarded Best Innovative Project (Tertiary) for SITF 2016

    JavaC#SQLHTMLCSSJavascriptAndroid

Skills

ArgoCDAWSCI/CDDockerDynamoDBExpressFlaskGrafanaJavascriptKubernetesLinuxMongoDBNextJSPostgreSQLPrometheusPythonReactReactJSRubySQLTerraformTypescript

Certification

Automation Pro IAutomation Pro IIAutomation Pro IIICertified ScrumMasterDocker Fundamentals

Awards

πŸ₯‰ 3rd Place @ Govtech DSAID Hackathon 2023πŸ₯ˆ 2nd Place @ Glasgow University Tech Society Hackathon 2022πŸ₯‰ 3rd Place @ Glasgow University Tech Society Hackathon 2021πŸ₯‡ 1st Place @ Glasgow University Tech Society Hackathon 2020πŸ₯ˆ 2nd Place @ IDA Data Driven Challenge 2016πŸ† Best Innovative Project (Tertiary) @ SITF 2016

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