Syed Muhammad Saad
Riyadh,Saudi Arabia
Summary
Experienced Data Consultant and Administrator, bringing top talents in design and implementation of clustered environments. Skilled in devops to install and manage all kinds of environments. Alongside skilled in data analytics, building pipelines and creating jobs to get the useful insights from the raw data. Excels at facilitating communication and collaboration across disciplines. Great presentation skills to higher management.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Managing Data Consultant
Systems Ltd.
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
09.2023 - Current
- Working as lead APIGEE OPDK Admin. Managing complete end-to-end Apigee infrastructure on STC Project.
- Leading various projects in this role:
- Apigee Expansion
- Apigee OPDK complete DR setup in multi-DC (BCP)
- Setting up complete new Apigee for a new client
- Setting up new ELK (dev, pre-prod, performance testing and production environment.)
- Migrating from Graylog to ELK.
- Managing administration of Jenkins, BitBucket, Mockgee and Drupal Developers Portal.
- Setting up alerts and monitoring on Grafana.
- Troubleshooting BAU issues and fixing and sharing RCA.
Principal Data Consultant
Systems Ltd.
Islamabad
12.2021 - 09.2023
- Architected, designed, implemented, and supported multiple mission-critical data systems
- Utilized Nifi for data ingestion, stored data in AWS S3 buckets, and performed ingestion in Athena
- Implemented Python and Spark jobs for post-ingestion transformations
- Orchestrated pipelines using Jenkins and implemented Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) in Airflow for efficient scheduling
- Demonstrated hands-on expertise, both independently and collaboratively within a team environment
- Delivered high-quality and timely solutions on the data development platform.
Senior Cloud Engineer
S&P Global
Islamabad
08.2019 - 12.2021
- Working together with various domestic and overseas teams across the organization to ensure all applications under team ownership i.e
- APIGEE, KONG and whole Messaging Platform (Kafka, Sonic) is reliable, fully operational, performant, and meets business requirements including our committed SLAs
- Conduct and assist in conducting regular capacity analysis and POCs
- Assist various DEV and QA teams during their development and testing following the Guidelines provided
- Develop and maintain the SOA and Messaging framework currently being used by various internal customers within S&P Global
- Monitor SOA & Messaging platform and conduct routine platform maintenance work for smooth operation with guaranteed uptime
- Onboard applications to the platform as and when needed with high priority
- Provide support to the production, DR and all lower environments making platform stable and highly available achieving SLA for smooth and reliable platform operation.
Revenue Management Operations Specialist
Telenor Pakistan
Islamabad
08.2018 - 08.2019
- 24/7 support in troubleshooting, analyzing and resolving any complains or processing any stakeholder's requirements
- Daily Mediation process SMS based alert system (deployment, maintenance, and monitoring on all mediation servers)
- Mediation daily reporting, data archival, space management and reconciliation automation
- Part of NOKIA Mediation SWAP project in Telenor
- Mediation Operation Management, Configuration & Maintenance on the Evolving Mediation application
- Self-made scripts and programs to generate Mediation reporting and alerts
- Liaise with Evolving Support team to resolve faults relating to mediation systems.
Senior Executive CBS
Ufone PTML
Islamabad
03.2010 - 08.2018
- Mediation Operation Management, Configuration & Maintenance on the HUAWEI Mediation 5.5 application on Web GUI and MICE
- Writing parsers for the new streams at mediation end like SCG, USSD, MMSC, BGM etc and their testing and monitoring
- Self-made scripts and programs to generate Mediation reporting
- Data analytics project on churn prediction based on call drops in each cell site
- PRM: PRM Operation Management, Configuration & Maintenance on the HUAWEI application (MICE) and Oracle Platform
- CBS: Perform postpaid CBS bill-run activities using Huawei's SMAP.
Education
Master of Science - Engineering Project Management
08.2011 - 12.2013
Bachelor of Science - Telecommunication Engineering
08.2005 - 08.2009
Skills
- APIGEE administrator, architect/developer
- API integration, management and troubleshooting issues
- Apache Kafka administration and messaging system usage
- Deploying complete multi-node Kafka clusters on-prem and AWS
- Deploying APIGEE cluster on-prem and AWS
- Deploying ELK cluster on-prem and AWS
- Deploying multi-node Jenkins and pipelines migration
- AWS Cloud Formation Templates
- AWS EC2
- AWS Auto Scaling
- AWS S3 buckets for data lake storage and backups
- AWS Networking (security groups, target servers and VPC etc)
- AWS Athena DB
- AWS Jupyter Notebooks
- Data ingestion using Nifi flows Processing using SPARK jobs
- Implementing scheduling using Airflow DAGs in Airflow
- MS SQL, ORACLE knowledge for analyzing problems
- Mongo DB for un-structured data analysis
- Writing complex queries and stored procedures
- Data loading in both Transactional and Analytics DBs
- Jira/Azure for Agile Scrum model
- Reporting and documentation in Confluence
- Setting up Jenkins pipelines
- Managing code repositories in BitBucket
- Shell Scripting in Linux
- Big Data Ecosystems: Hadoop, MapReduce, HDFS, HBase, Zookeeper, Cassandra, Flume, Hive, Pig, Sqoop
- Programming Languages: C/C
- Scripting Languages: Python and Bash
- UNIX Tools: Apache, Yum, RPM
- Automation: Ansible
- Alerting, monitoring and dashboard: DataDog, Grafana, ELK
- Working in Sprints and Sprint planning/Retrospectives
- Backup and recovery techniques
- DevOps understanding and implementations
Languages
English
Proficient (C2)
Urdu
Native
Arabic
Beginner
Affiliations
- Keeping up-to-date with latest tech.
Accomplishments
Star of the Quarter
Kudos Card
Multiple awards on projects delivery.
Trainings
- Stream language training with IBM in Germany for the deployment of the InfoSphere Streamproject in Ufone to extract data on runtime from CDR files and load to database and performactions according to developed use cases
- UNIX-AIX training in NUST, for basic commands and installations
- Shell scripting for automation
- Training with HUAWEI on Mediation 5.5 upgrade
- 2 months Training on Big Data Hadoop from DICE ANALYTICS.
Timeline
Managing Data Consultant - Systems Ltd.
09.2023 - Current
Principal Data Consultant - Systems Ltd.
12.2021 - 09.2023
Senior Cloud Engineer - S&P Global
08.2019 - 12.2021
Revenue Management Operations Specialist - Telenor Pakistan
08.2018 - 08.2019
CASE University - Master of Science, Engineering Project Management
08.2011 - 12.2013
Senior Executive CBS - Ufone PTML
03.2010 - 08.2018
Nu-FAST - Bachelor of Science, Telecommunication Engineering
08.2005 - 08.2009