# Muhammad Ibtisam Iqbal

> CKA and CKAD certified DevOps & Cloud Engineer in Islamabad, Pakistan, building Kubernetes clusters, CI/CD pipelines and AWS infrastructure from first principles. Audits and modernises application codebases across Java, Python and Node.js (dependency upgrades, config externalization, health endpoints, architectural refactoring) before containerising and deploying them. Core stack: Kubernetes on kubeadm and EKS, Docker, Helm, Helmfile, Kustomize and ArgoCD, provisioned with Terraform and Ansible on Linux, delivered through Jenkins and GitHub Actions. DevSecOps scanning (Trivy, Hadolint, SonarQube) and observability (Prometheus, Grafana, the Elastic Stack) are wired into the same pipelines rather than bolted on afterwards. Every project ships with source code, runbooks and architecture documentation.

Every claim on these sites is written by me. Where an independent source can
check it, the link is provided rather than the claim restated.

## Start here

- [Portfolio](https://ibtisam-iq.com): background, the tool-by-tool engineering stack, certifications with verification links, and CV
- [Projects](https://projects.ibtisam-iq.com): EKS deployments, GitOps with ArgoCD, Terraform provisioning and DevSecOps pipelines, each with source code and runbooks
- [CV](https://ibtisam-iq.com/cv.pdf): resume as PDF

## Writing

- [Blog](https://blog.ibtisam-iq.com): failure-first write-ups on what broke, why, and what the failure turned out to be about
- [Runbook](https://runbook.ibtisam-iq.com): decisions and debugging recorded while the work was fresh
- [Nectar](https://nectar.ibtisam-iq.com): engineering knowledge base covering Kubernetes, AWS, Linux, networking, containers and CI/CD
- [Cert Vault](https://cert-vault.ibtisam-iq.com): CKA and CKAD preparation notes

## Open source

- [DebugBox](https://debugbox.ibtisam-iq.com): Kubernetes debugging containers in size-scoped Alpine variants
- [SilverStack](https://github.com/ibtisam-iq/silver-stack): custom OCI rootfs images that boot as Firecracker microVMs, published as browser-launchable playgrounds

## Independently verifiable

- [Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)](https://www.credly.com/badges/0f1fd462-102e-42e8-932c-ebd4222d5587), credential ID LF-gjlveemoqf
- [Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)](https://www.credly.com/badges/13e7993c-8bc1-4f82-822d-7382322f7b88), credential ID LF-l6qqde7lal
- [GitHub](https://github.com/ibtisam-iq)
- [Credly](https://www.credly.com/users/ibtisam-iq/)
- [Docker Hub](https://hub.docker.com/u/mibtisam)
- [iximiuz Labs](https://labs.iximiuz.com/a/ibtisam-iq)

## Elsewhere

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ibtisam-iq)
- [Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/users/33012784/ibtisam-iq)
- [Dev.to](https://dev.to/ibtisam-iq)
- [Medium](https://ibtisam-iq.medium.com/)
- [Hashnode](https://hashnode.com/@ibtisam-iq)
- [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ibtisam-iq)
- [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/user/ibtisam-iq/)
- [X](https://x.com/ibtisam_iq)
- [Peerlist](https://peerlist.io/ibtisam_iq)
- [ResearchGate](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Muhammad-Ibtisam-Iqbal)
- [Bayt](https://people.bayt.com/ibtisam-iq/)
- [Raindrop](https://raindrop.io/ibtisam-iq)
- [Cal.com](https://cal.com/ibtisam-iq)

## Contact

- contact@ibtisam-iq.com

Machine-readable version of all of the above: https://ibtisam-iq.com/profile.json