Shabana Ahmed
About Shabana Ahmed
Shabana Ahmed is a DevOps Engineer at Fannie Mae in Phoenix, Arizona, with extensive experience in cloud migration, automation, and application deployment.
Current Role at Fannie Mae
Shabana Ahmed currently holds the position of DevOps Engineer at Fannie Mae in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. In this role, she is involved in migrating on-premises data center applications to the AWS Cloud environment. Her responsibilities include the creation of Terraform templates for launching EC2 instances, S3 buckets, and VPC configurations. She configures both public and private subnets to establish Bastion and web server setups, ensuring the efficient and secure deployment of applications. Additionally, Shabana handles incident, change, and problem management across production, simulation, and development environments.
Previous Experience at Hilton
From 2018 to 2020, Shabana Ahmed worked as a DevOps Engineer at Hilton in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. During her tenure, she was responsible for installing and configuring Apache Tomcat and Apache on both Linux and Windows environments. Shabana automated application deployment processes using Jenkins and shell scripts, ensuring streamlined operations across various environments. She also played a key role in building WAR/JAR files using Maven and Ant, while troubleshooting issues using console messages, Java exceptions, log files, and traces.
Experience at Cubic Transportation Systems
Shabana Ahmed served as a Build and Release Engineer at Cubic Transportation Systems from 2017 to 2018 for nine months in Virginia, United States. In this role, she reviewed and verified production release notes, created and configured build.xml and pom.xml files for environment-specific application packages, and utilized various tools for troubleshooting and tuning. Her expertise in application deployment was instrumental in ensuring the successful rollout of new software versions across different environments.
Career Beginnings at Wells Fargo and Sahara Builders
Before transitioning to technical roles, Shabana Ahmed worked as a Bank Teller at Wells Fargo from 2012 to 2016 for four years in Virginia, United States. Prior to that, she was an Office Secretary at Sahara Builders from 2008 to 2012, also for four years in Virginia. During these early stages of her career, she honed her administrative and customer service skills, which laid the foundation for her later technical expertise.
Technical Skills and Tools Utilized
Shabana Ahmed's technical skills encompass a range of tools and technologies essential for DevOps and build engineering. She has automated application installation and enhancements through batch and shell scripting, deployed application packages in WAR and JAR formats using deployment scripts and admin console, and utilized Heap Analyzer and Thread Analyzer for tuning Tomcat JVM-related issues. Her hands-on experience with Jenkins for automating deployment processes, as well as her ability to troubleshoot and handle change requests across DEV, UAT, PRE-PROD, and PROD environments, showcases her comprehensive technical acumen.