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👋 Hello, I’m Umar Zaman

Cloud / DevOps / SRE–focused engineer who loves automation, reliability, and building scalable systems.
🎓 4th-year B.CompSci (Cloud Computing) @ Sheridan College · 📍 Toronto, ON


🚀 What I’m good at

  • Cloud architectures: AWS-first with multi-cloud (AWS + GCP) exposure
  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform (version-controlled IaC, reusable modules)
  • CI/CD: GitHub Actions (plan/apply, build/test/deploy, environment gates)
  • Serverless & event-driven: Lambda, Cloud Functions, queues, webhooks
  • Observability: CloudWatch, GCP Monitoring, Prometheus, Grafana
  • Linux & tooling: Ubuntu/Debian, Docker, Helm/K3s, Bash, Python

🛠 Tech Stack

Cloud: AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, Lambda, CloudWatch), GCP (Pub/Sub, Cloud Functions)
IaC & DevOps: Terraform, GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes (K3s, Helm)
Languages: Python, Bash, Go, TypeScript/JavaScript
Databases: DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
Monitoring: CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana
OS: Linux (Ubuntu/Debian)


🔧 Featured Projects

📊 BlockchainCore — Multi-Cloud Real-Time Analytics

AWS, GCP, Terraform, Python, GitHub Actions

  • Built a multi-cloud data platform with AWS–GCP redundancy → 99.9% uptime and <2-minute failover
  • Automated 20+ resources via Terraform and CI/CD for repeatable deployments
  • Serverless, event-driven pipelines processing 2000+ real-time messages with sub-second latency
  • Unified monitoring & alerting with CloudWatch + GCP Monitoring for proactive incident response
  • Cost-aware DR using GCP free tier to keep backup spend minimal

Repo: https://github.com/umar11b/BlockchainCore


🖥️ Raspberry Pi Kubernetes Homelab

K3s, Docker, Helm, Prometheus, Grafana, Terraform, Bash

  • Production-style K3s cluster with Helm/Kustomize and GitOps-style workflows
  • 12+ Grafana dashboards across nodes, pods, and custom metrics
  • 16% lower memory via tuned requests/limits and HPA thresholds
  • CI/CD utilities: 15+ Make targets for deploy/cleanup/backup (CronJobs)

Repo: https://github.com/umar11b/k3s-showcase


📫 Connect


⚡ Fun fact

Outside the cloud ☁️ I train Muay Thai and BJJ—same discipline I bring to engineering.

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  1. BlockchainCore BlockchainCore Public

    Shell

  2. k3s-showcase k3s-showcase Public

    Static site + video showcase of my k3s homelab labs (deployed to pi.umarzaman.ca).

    TypeScript

  3. personal-website personal-website Public

    JavaScript