hamid.naeemabadi@tehran :~ $ neofetch

user
Hamid Naeemabadi
role
DevOps & SRE Lead
kernel
Kubernetes · Platform Reliability · Hybrid Cloud
host
Tehran, IR
uptime
7+ years production infra · 5 years DevOps/SRE ownership
status
Ready
shell
bash · vim · GitOps
packages
k8sargoCDgitlab-citerraformprometheus

Design for failure. Measure everything. Eliminate toil. Stay calm when the pager fires.

# kubectl get slo

watch -n 1 'promql query --dashboard reliability'

slo.uptime

prom

99.9%

sustained on retail platforms

mttr.delta

sre

~40%

reduction via k8s + HPA

ci.pipelines

gitlab

100+

GitLab CI → ArgoCD GitOps

cluster.ownership

k8s

e2e

design, upgrades, HA, recovery

oncall.coverage

pager

24/7

escalation + backup on-call

prod.years

human

7+

infra & operations in production

# man hamid

kubectl get engineer hamid-naeemabadi -o yaml

spec.yaml sre.hamid.dev/v1 
apiVersion: sre.hamid.dev/v1
kind: Engineer
metadata:
  name: hamid-naeemabadi
  location: Tehran, IR
  status: Ready
spec:
  role: DevOps & SRE Lead
  principles:
    - eliminate toil
    - design for failure
    - measure everything
    - stay calm under pressure
HAMID(1) User Commands HAMID(1)

NAME

hamid — DevOps & SRE Lead for business-critical distributed systems.

SYNOPSIS

Hands-on lead for Kubernetes, GitOps, CI/CD, Linux, networking, and system architecture across hybrid cloud and on-prem.

DESCRIPTION

Owns uptime, incident response, and operational standards. Works proactively — eliminating failure modes before they reach production — and stays systematic when they do. Mentors engineers, runs technical hiring, and translates infrastructure complexity into guidance other teams can act on.

EXIT STATUS

Trusted partner to product, frontend, and embedded-systems teams. Culture of docs, knowledge sharing, and long-term thinking.

# git log --pretty=job

git log --oneline --decorate --reverse

* 2018-11  init     AvaKatan — IT Support Engineer
* 2020-01  feat     AvaKatan — Senior Support Engineer
* 2021-02  feat     AvaKatan — Senior Infrastructure Engineer
* 2021-09  release  Domil — DevOps & SRE Chapter Lead  (HEAD -> present)

DevOps & SRE Chapter Lead / Senior DevOps & SRE

Domil · Tehran, IR · Sep 2021 – Present · 5y 1m

origin/present

Technology company within AvaKatan Holding. Designs and operates the e-commerce platforms behind Banimode and Jeanswest — reliability, delivery, and operational excellence for retail platforms serving millions of users.

diff --stat expand commits
  • Migrated legacy services to Kubernetes with HPA — 99.9% uptime, MTTR down ~40%
  • Owned production Kubernetes end-to-end: design, upgrades, HA, recovery
  • Designed HA/DR architectures with load balancing and automated failover
  • Scaled and stabilized MySQL Galera clusters with near-zero downtime
  • Led incident response, RCA, and preventive production improvements
  • Defined standards for monitoring, logging, service lifecycle, and incident handling
  • Centralized observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix, Graylog, Splunk
  • Built 100+ GitLab CI/CD pipelines; production delivery via ArgoCD GitOps
  • Automated deployments, SSL lifecycle, and recovery; cut operational toil
  • Led DevOps/SRE engineers in an embedded product-squad model
  • Established 24/7 on-call; personal ownership as escalation and backup
  • Mentored engineers, ran technical interviews, grew operational capability

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

AvaKatan Holding · Tehran, IR · Nov 2018 – Sep 2021 · 2y 10m

tag: v1.0

Retail and lifestyle holding group with 40+ branches nationwide. Portfolio: Banimode (online marketplace), Jeanswest (fashion retail chain), Domil (technology company), Balcafe (café chain), Digiwash (online clothing laundry), MetaGym, and Delishfood Catering. Progressed from IT support to senior ownership of enterprise on-prem, virtualization, and data center systems.

diff --stat expand commits

Senior Infrastructure Engineer · Feb 2021 – Sep 2021 · 7m

  • Operated enterprise on-prem infrastructure, virtualization, and DC systems (Linux & Windows)
  • Applied enterprise-grade security hardening across servers and services
  • Wrote SOPs for service lifecycle, hypervisors, and physical servers
  • Built centralized VoIP infrastructure across a multi-site retail estate

Senior Support Engineer · Jan 2020 – Feb 2021 · 1y 1m

IT Support Engineer · Nov 2018 – Jan 2020 · 1y 2m

  • Administered Linux and Windows Server fleets, including Apache, IIS, and Microsoft SQL Server
  • Ran centralized monitoring with Zabbix and PRTG; fixed issues before user impact
  • Owned backup and restore with Veeam Backup & Replication
  • Automated recurring administration with PowerShell
  • Managed Microsoft infrastructure services (AD, DNS, DHCP, WDS, WSUS) and VoIP PBX
  • Delivered support under ITIL service management practices

# dpkg -l | grep -E 'sre|plat'

pacman -Qs --inventory core-competencies

reliability

SLA/SLO · MTTR · incident lifecycle · RCA · HA/DR · capacity · toil reduction

leadership

mentoring · embedded squads · on-call design · SOPs · hiring · Agile · ITIL

platforms

Kubernetes (on-prem & hybrid) · HPA · AWS (EC2, EKS, RDS, IAM, VPC) · VMware · bare metal

linux

admin · tuning · kernel/net/app perf · hardening · patching · lifecycle

ci / gitops

GitLab CI/CD · ArgoCD · Docker · Compose · branching & release workflows

iac

Terraform · Ansible · Bash · Python · PowerShell

traffic

Nginx · Traefik · HAProxy · Keepalived · Cloudflare CDN

observability

Prometheus · Grafana · Zabbix · Graylog · Splunk · Sentry · alerting · logs

data

MySQL Galera · PostgreSQL · MongoDB · Redis · Elasticsearch · RabbitMQ · Metabase

storage / dr

GlusterFS · Veeam · backup/restore · disaster recovery planning

security

Vault · secrets · SSL automation · Linux hardening · access control

enterprise

Windows Server · Active Directory · Microsoft SQL Server Always-On

# ls /usr/share/certs

openssl x509 -in education.pem -noout -subject

B.Sc. Computer Software Engineering

Azad University (IAU)

certifications

  • LPIC-2 & LPIC-303 (Security)
  • DASA DevOps Fundamentals
  • Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
  • CCNA
  • VMware vSphere
  • MCSA

# ssh hamid.naeemabadi@tehran

echo "let's talk" | sendmail -t