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Based in the Philippines

Mohammed Ali B. Abdullah

Full-Stack Developer,DevOps Engineer,AI Engineer

I build scalable applications, automate cloud infrastructure, and develop AI-powered solutions that solve real-world problems.

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Full-stack applications
Experience
7+ years
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AWS 3×
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Projects

Projects

Client work and open-source projects across application development, cloud delivery and applied AI. Each open-source project page covers the problem, the solution, the stack and how it is built and shipped.

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  1. IronFort

    SaaS · Client work
    • AWS
    • Python
    • Terraform (CDKTN)
    • Azure DevOps
    • Amazon Bedrock
    • Lambda
    • EventBridge
    • ECS
    • EC2
    • Lightsail
    • S3
    • Route 53
    • IAM

    A compliance automation platform for HIPAA, ITSG-33 and SOC 2. It runs continuous, read-only checks across cloud and developer platforms such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and GitHub, and turns the results into audit-ready evidence.

    Product Engineer · Freelance via Buzzerboy · Aug 2024 – Present

    • Checks across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and GitHub
    • Read-only integrations with no agents to install
    • Audit-ready evidence and AI-assisted risk analysis
    • Available on AWS Marketplace
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  2. cloud-incident-service

    AI service
    • Python
    • FastAPI
    • Pydantic
    • Amazon Bedrock
    • Anthropic API

    An AI-assisted service that investigates AWS incidents with a bounded, read-only agent and returns evidence-cited reports that keep facts, hypotheses and uncertainty separate.

    • Bounded agent: 8 tool calls, 6 turns, 60 seconds
    • Every statement cites evidence a tool returned
    • Remediation always requires human approval
    • Offline evaluation across ten scenarios
    Read case studyGitHub (opens in a new tab)

  3. estoe

    CLI
    • Python
    • AWS Secrets Manager
    • Azure Key Vault
    • Google Secret Manager

    A command-line tool that turns one cloud secret into a local .env file, so developers stop copying secret values by hand.

    • AWS, Azure and Google Cloud secret managers
    • Refuses tracked or unsafe destinations before fetching
    • Private, atomic writes with explicit overwrite
    • Published to PyPI with Trusted Publishing
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  4. ai-project-factory

    Generator
    • Python
    • Copier
    • Typer
    • Pydantic
    • GitHub Actions

    A project generator that creates small, runnable Python and web starters with requirements, tests, CI and AI-agent instructions already aligned.

    • Python CLI, web SaaS and AI service starters
    • Validated configuration; never overwrites a path
    • 22 UI presets with light and dark tokens
    • cloud-incident-service was generated from it
    Read case studyGitHub (opens in a new tab)

  5. Website Portfolio

    Website
    • Next.js
    • TypeScript
    • Tailwind CSS
    • Terraform
    • AWS

    This website: a statically exported Next.js site built for Amazon S3 and CloudFront, with infrastructure defined in Terraform and deployments through GitHub Actions.

    • Static export with no server runtime
    • Terraform and GitHub OIDC, with no stored AWS keys
    • Deploys gated on tests and accessibility checks
    • CSS-first motion that respects reduced motion
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Experience

Experience

More than seven years across enterprise applications, government systems and cloud engineering, moving steadily from building software to automating how it is delivered and run.

  1. – Present

    Current role

    Freelance · Part-time

    Product Engineer

    Buzzerboy · IronFort, Remote

    Part-time engagement held alongside the Fujitsu role from August 2024 to September 2026.

    • AWS infrastructure automation with Terraform and CDKTN
    • Azure DevOps CI/CD with AWS OIDC integration
    • Python Lambda and EventBridge automation
    • Docker deployments on Lightsail, ECS and ECR
    • Cross-account IAM and cloud security integrations
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    • Define development, demo and production AWS infrastructure using CDKTN-generated Terraform, reusable constructs, remote state in S3, and least-privilege execution and scheduler roles.
    • Built Azure DevOps validation and deployment pipelines using AWS OIDC, automated tests, Terraform plan/apply stages, deployment artifacts, branch-based environments and approval controls.
    • Developed separate Python Lambda services scheduled with EventBridge, secured configuration through Secrets Manager, and implemented CloudWatch logging, delivery tracking and operational diagnostics.
    • Supported Dockerized application and worker deployments using Lightsail, ECS and ECR; investigated container images, networking, database access, environment configuration and deployment failures.
    • Implemented secure cross-account AWS access using IAM roles and External IDs for ScanOps security scanning, with role-based permissions, MFA/TOTP and tenant-aware controls.
    • Resolved pipeline issues involving Terraform and CDKTN tooling, provider permissions, backend access, IAM policies and Azure environment authorization.

  2. –

    4 yrs 3 mos

    Application Systems Engineer

    Fujitsu Philippines, Bonifacio Global City, Philippines

    • GitHub Actions and GitLab CI pipelines
    • Dockerized Python applications
    • Linux and AWS deployment support
    • Log monitoring and troubleshooting
    • Security and process automation
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    • Built and maintained GitHub Actions and GitLab CI pipelines for validation and deployment of Python, Django, Flask, JavaScript, C# and data-processing applications.
    • Deployed and troubleshot containerized Django services in Linux-based AWS environments using Docker, Bash, command-line tools, process inspection, and application and container logs.
    • Created a multi-service log detection and monitoring tool that surfaced system events for operational analysis, troubleshooting and root-cause investigation.
    • Developed an IP restriction maintenance utility that automated repetitive configuration work and strengthened application security controls.
    • Supported engineers with cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, container deployments, documentation and technical troubleshooting across application environments.

  3. –

    1 yr 4 mos

    Admin Officer II (Programmer)

    Department of Agriculture, San Fernando City, La Union, Philippines

    • Drone-video processing with Python, OpenCV and MoviePy
    • Geotagged infrastructure-photo processing
    • GitHub Actions deployments to DigitalOcean
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    • Developed a mobile application for drone-video processing that embedded geolocation data in the output, using Python, OpenCV and MoviePy to reduce processing time by 40%.
    • Developed a tool that processed, sorted and grouped geotagged infrastructure-project photos into before, during and after construction stages.
    • Created GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines to automate the build and deployment of departmental tools to infrastructure within a DigitalOcean VPC.

  4. –

    10 mos

    Project Assistant I (Web Developer)

    Department of Agriculture, San Fernando City, La Union, Philippines

    • Employee self-service web application
    • Document-tracking tool
    • Public website migration
    • CI/CD automation
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    • Developed an employee self-service web application for viewing payslips and Daily Time Records (DTRs).
    • Developed a web-based document-tracking tool with integrated ACR search for locating and monitoring departmental records.
    • Created GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines to automate the build and deployment of the web tools to infrastructure within a DigitalOcean VPC.
    • Migrated and optimised a public website and supported an ASP.NET MVC analytics dashboard and validated data-entry workflow.

  5. –

    1 yr 6 mos

    Applications Developer

    Universal Leaf Philippines, Agoo, La Union, Philippines

    • Enterprise application development
    • Database and stored-procedure optimisation
    • Automated scheduled jobs
    • Production support
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    • Developed and supported enterprise applications, scheduled jobs, deployments, documentation, troubleshooting, user support and technical delivery.
    • Optimised SQL stored procedures and scheduled jobs, reducing data-processing time by 25%.

Skills

Skills

Grouped by discipline. Solid tags are tools used in production roles or public projects; dashed tags mark working knowledge.

Full-Stack Development

Web applications, APIs and the databases behind them.

Languages & frameworks

  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • Django
  • Flask
  • FastAPI
  • Pydantic
  • TypeScript (working knowledge)
  • Next.js (working knowledge)
  • C# (working knowledge)
  • ASP.NET MVC (working knowledge)

Data & interfaces

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • SQL Server
  • DynamoDB
  • SQL optimisation
  • REST APIs
  • Data migration

DevOps & Cloud

Infrastructure as code, delivery pipelines and running workloads on AWS.

AWS

  • Lambda
  • EventBridge Scheduler
  • ECS
  • ECR
  • Lightsail
  • S3
  • CloudFront
  • API Gateway
  • IAM
  • Secrets Manager
  • CloudWatch

IaC & CI/CD

  • Terraform
  • CDKTN
  • CloudFormation
  • GitHub Actions
  • GitLab CI
  • Azure DevOps
  • AWS OIDC

Systems & security

  • Docker
  • Docker Compose
  • Linux
  • Bash
  • Least-privilege IAM
  • Cross-account roles
  • DigitalOcean
  • Cloudflare
  • Kubernetes (working knowledge)
  • EKS (working knowledge)

AI Engineering

Bounded, evidence-grounded LLM features with evaluation and safety controls.

Models & integration

  • LLM integration
  • Amazon Bedrock
  • Anthropic API
  • Tool use
  • Prompt engineering

Agents & retrieval

  • Model Context Protocol (MCP) (working knowledge)
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) (working knowledge)
  • LangChain (working knowledge)
  • LangGraph (working knowledge)
  • Pydantic AI (working knowledge)

Reliability

  • Evals (offline evaluation)
  • Guardrails
  • Schema-validated output
  • Output grounding
  • Trace redaction
  • AI-assisted development workflows

Certifications

Certifications

Three AWS certifications covering solution architecture, cloud fundamentals and AI on AWS. Each one can be verified on Credly.

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Mohammed Ali B. Abdullah

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