Hamed Golchin

Results-driven DevOps engineer with 9+ years in cloud & platform engineering. I design secure-by-default, observable platforms on AWS and GCP, run Kubernetes at scale, and automate everything with Terraform, Python, and Bash. Track record: 99.8% uptime, faster delivery via CI/CD and GitOps, and measurable cost/performance wins.

Experience

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  DevOps Engineer — Metric Gaming (London · Remote)

  Jun 2023 – Present
  • Provisioned AWS with Terraform/CloudFormation aligned to CIS & NIST; achieved ~99.8% uptime.
  • Built 24/7 monitoring, logging, and alerting with Datadog; defined on-call runbooks and SLO/SLIs.
  • Automated release processes (Bitbucket shared pipelines, Jira integration); improved deployment speed and reliability.
  • Shipped internal DevOps SDKs for repeatable release and environment operations.
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  DevOps Engineer — Zazmic Inc (San Francisco · Remote)

  Oct 2021 – Jun 2023
  • Managed AWS & GCP infrastructure; orchestrated apps on Kubernetes via Argo CD.
  • Optimized CI/CD with GitLab CI & Jenkins; reduced deployment time by ~40%.
  • Standardized IaC with Terraform/Ansible; increased automation efficiency by ~30%.
  • Improved reliability with SLOs/SLIs and incident runbooks in Datadog.
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  DevOps Engineer — FruPro (London · Remote)

  Mar 2021 – Oct 2021
  • Owned GCP infra & observability; sustained ~99.6% uptime.
  • Delivered real-time analytics & BI; improved decision accuracy by ~20%.
  • Introduced Terraform IaC; cut manual deployment errors by ~50%.
  • Integrated DAST/IAST (Acunetix) & SAST (SonarQube) into CI/CD; boosted code quality by ~25%.
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  DevOps Engineer — Skyroom (Tehran)

  Oct 2018 – Mar 2021
  • Led migration from monolith to microservices; deployed with Helm on Kubernetes.
  • Codified infra with Terraform; increased automation efficiency by ~30%; uptime ~99.3%.
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  Web Systems Administrator — DigiMaliat (Tabriz)

  Dec 2016 – Oct 2018
  • Optimized hybrid (on-prem + AWS) systems; reduced operational costs by ~25%.
  • Drove documentation and knowledge-sharing; improved incident resolution time.

Skills

Highlights

• 99.8% application uptime (AWS)
• 40% faster deployments (CI/CD optimization)
• 50% fewer manual errors (Terraform-first)
• 25% cost reduction (infra/right-sizing)

Numbers are based on project retros and platform KPIs.

Projects

• Release Orchestrator

  Python CLI that automates PR merges, tagging, and Argo CD PRs across Bitbucket repos.

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• EKS Hardened Modules

  Terraform modules aligned to CIS/NIST with IRSA & least-privilege IAM patterns.

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• Observability Starter

  Dashboards, alerts, and SLO templates for K8s apps (Datadog + Prometheus).

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• Shared CI/CD Pipelines

  Bitbucket Pipelines · GitLab CI · Automation

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• Workers Resume Site

  Cloudflare Workers static+API site with Turnstile & KV, Telegram/Discord alerts.

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Certificates

• Google Cloud Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer

  Issued May 4, 2023

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Professional

  Issued Jul 2022

• Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)

  Issued Jul 2020

Education

• MSc — Computer Science (Information Security)

  University of Tabriz · Dec 2021

• BSc — Food Process Equipment Engineering

  University of Tabriz · Jan 2019

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