Irfan Ahmed
About Irfan Ahmed
Irfan Ahmed is a Principal Cloud Engineer at NorthBay Solutions in Lahore, Pakistan, where he has worked since 2019. He specializes in cloud disaster recovery, AWS account management, and automation, with a background in Electrical Engineering.
Work at NorthBay Solutions
Irfan Ahmed has served as Principal Cloud Engineer at NorthBay Solutions since 2019. In this role, he has focused on implementing cloud disaster recovery solutions to ensure business continuity. His responsibilities include managing over 60 AWS accounts and configuring various cloud services to optimize performance and security. He has also configured DNS, billing alerts, budgets, CloudWatch alarms, and CloudTrail to enhance cloud management.
Previous Experience in Cloud Engineering
Before joining NorthBay Solutions, Irfan Ahmed worked at Alchemative as a Cloud Engineer from 2018 to 2019. He previously held the position of Network Services Engineer/Network Administrator at the same company from 2014 to 2017. His experience in these roles involved configuring site-to-site VPNs, managing network services, and ensuring secure connectivity between AWS and on-premises networks.
Education and Expertise
Irfan Ahmed studied Electrical Engineering at The University of Lahore, where he earned a B-Tech (Hons) degree from 2007 to 2011. He also completed a Diploma of Associate Engineering (DAE) in Electrical Engineering at Ahmad Hassan Polytechnic Institute in Lahore. Earlier, he attended B.I.S.E Rawalpindi, where he studied Sciences and completed high school from 2002 to 2003.
Technical Skills and Implementations
Irfan Ahmed has extensive technical skills in cloud engineering. He has implemented public and private subnets, NAT gateways, and CloudFront for caching with SSL certificate termination over Elastic Load Balancer (ELB). He has configured a Jenkins server for CI/CD and utilized Terraform for infrastructure management. Additionally, he has built Linux servers and configured Nginx with PHP-FPM to optimize web performance.