Hamza Farooq
System Engineer
With * years of successful experience in the Cloud hosting and IT industry, I'm seeking an opportunity to efficiently contribute my skills and abilities to the growth of an organization and build my professional career in Cloud Platforms. *************@*******.*** +1-409-***-****
Beaumont, United States linkedin.com/in/hamza-farooq-571304196 WORK EXPERIENCE
System Engineer
SRKK Group
04/2022 - Present,
Linux System Administrator.
Working on Managed Wordpress Hosting.
Handling shared hosting on WHM and cPanel.
Handling WHMCS, Google relleser account, Office365
AWS and Azure cloud administration.
Migration, Maintenance and Server Patching.
Monitoring servers with PRTG and Zabbix.
Supporting customer on call, chat and tickets
System Engineer
Mgt-Commerce Gmbh
08/2020 - 04/2022,
Linux System Administrator.
Working on managed Magento and WordPress hosting.
Working on Single to Multi-server Environment.
Troubleshooting various issues of Magento and WordPress for clients.
Troubleshooting Services issues example (issues with Nginx, Mysql, ElasticSearch, Varnish, Redis, Caching issues). Troubleshooting server-related issues example (SSH, FTP, Disk space, Memory issues, Cron issues).
Working on AWS resources (EC2, RDS, EIP, S3, WAF, SNS, SES, ELB, ASG, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudFront, CloudTrail, Route53, Cost Management).
Zabbix monitoring which includes (CPU utilization
Monitoring, Swap spaces, inodes, Memory checks, Disk space issues, Cron check).
Working on ticketing systems and providing customers with the best support on rotational shifts.
Trainee Cloud Engineer/Internee
Cloudways
02/2020 - 04/2020,
Learned basic Knowledge of cloud platforms i.e AWS, Google Cloud, Linode, Digital ocean and Vultr.
Learned basic knowledge of Linux systems including hardware, software, and applications.
Implemented various protocols which include SMTP, SSL, SSH, SFTP, IMAP, POP3, TCP/UDP, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS etc and their port configuration.
Stack deployment, Learned about Proxy and reverse proxy servers. (NGINX, VARNISH, APACHE, PHP-FPM, MYSQL)
SKILLS
Linux Debian Ubunto CentOS
Wordpress Magento AWS Azure Cpanel
WHM CloudPanel SSL DNS C++
Python OOP Office365 MacOS
Cloudflare
PERSONAL PROJECTS
Smart Helmet (FYP) (12/2018 - 09/2019)
Smart Helmet for Bikers ensures the safety of the rider and gives the rider complete information about its surroundings. It is designed to be worn by riders who need to see the back view and map of the location they are going to. The helmet is also capable of warning about the collision. That can be used in emergencies as quickly as possible. The system is the combination of different sensors, cameras & equipment to guide the driver about road traffic.
Line Following Robot (2016)
Developed logic for an Arduino based line following robot for Mid year project exhibition.
Chat bot for user interaction (2015)
Developed a chat bot for user interaction using C++. language for Mid semester project.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Engineering
NED University of Engineering & Technology
2019,
Computer & Information
Systems Engineering
Masters Degree
Lamar University
2023 - Present, Beaumont, Texas
Engineering Management
CERTIFICATIONS
Linux Administration Bootcamp: Go from Beginner to Advanced
Udemy Certificate: Setting Up WordPress on a VPS
cPanel Professional Certification (CPP)
Wordpress: Building a Secure Site
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