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An SRE / Platform Engineer

Welcome to Zaw Zaw's blog. I’m Zaw Zaw from Pyay, Myanmar, I’m publishing practical guides and articles that focus on Linux, Containerization, CI/CD tools, Kubernetes and Cloud-native technologies, Self-improvement and Personal experience on the blog.

I was born and grew up in Pyay, also known as Pyu Ancient City, Sri Ksetra. I’m an SRE/Platform Engineer and Former Recognized Developer (RD) at @XDA-Developers Forums. I’ve previously contributed to the Android operating system, Linux kernel, and Android Open Source Project (AOSP) based Android custom firmware projects on XDA Android Forums. I’ve loved working with Low-level software and Systems programming. Currently, I’m working on Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Linux, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment and Delivery (CD) tools, Containerization, and the Kubernetes platform.

I’ve always had a keen interest in Computer engineering, Systems programming, Operating systems, Linux kernel, Cloud computing, Containerization, Cloud-native technologies and Kubernetes. And I also love to take photographs and am interested in photography.

My Life Quote is

Keep it Minimal, Keep it Simple.

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EDUCATION

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

  • Programming & Scripting: C/C++, Java, Bash Shell
  • Leadership: Team Management, Mentorship, SRE Practices
  • Operating Systems: Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, RHEL)
  • Cloud Platforms: AWS (EC2, EKS, S3)
  • Version Control System: Git
  • Continuous Integration (CI): GitLab CI, GitHub Actions
  • Continuous Delivery (CD): Argo CD, Flux CD
  • Networking: TCP/IP, DNS, Load Balancing, Linux Virtual Networking, Ingress NGINX, Istio Service Mesh
  • Databases: MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL
  • Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Podman, Kubernetes
  • IaC & Configuration Management: Terraform (Basic), Ansible, Kustomize, Helm
  • Monitoring and Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Jaeger, ELK Stack (ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana)

WORK EXPERIENCE

FRONTiiR

  • Lead Platform Engineer ‣ Apr 2024 - Apr 2025
    • Led the Platform Engineering team.
    • Led the building and migrating of GitOps ArgoCD pipelines for automating app deployments for both development and production environments on Kubernetes.
    • Maintained self-managed internal K3s Kubernetes Clusters.
    • Migrated legacy apps to Kubernetes and Cloud-native environments.
    • Mentored Junior Platform engineers in GitLab CI, GitOps ArgoCD, and Kubernetes, focused on team building and researched new tools.
  • Platform Engineer ‣ May 2023 - Mar 2024
    • Designed and created multi-node K3s Kubernetes Clusters.
    • Integrated APISIX API Gateway and Keycloak for the microservices project on Kubernetes.
    • Configured GitLab Runners on Kubernetes for internal OSS and BSS projects and maintained them.
    • Developed Ansible Playbooks to bootstrap the Kubernetes Nodes.
    • Configured and deployed Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring database servers and Kubernetes clusters.
  • Senior Associate SRE Engineer ‣ Nov 2021 – Apr 2023
    • Containerized OSS Software systems and built Helm charts to deploy them on Kubernetes.
    • Configured GitOps ArgoCD Pipelines for automating OSS microservices app deployments on Kubernetes.
    • Migrated and configured the Istio Service Mesh for the OSS microservices project.
    • Built an operator for automating updating app container images on Kubernetes.
  • Associate SRE Engineer ‣ Sep 2020 – Oct 2021
    • Moved to the SRE team.
    • Containerized apps and developed GitLab CI pipelines.
  • Associate System Engineer ‣ Jan 2019 - Aug 2020
    • Worked on building, porting and customizing the Linux kernel and embedded Android operating system (OS) for AMLogic SoC-based Android TV hardware devices.

XDA-Developers

  • Recognized Developer ‣ 2017 - 2019
    • Contributed to Android, Linux kernel and Android open-source project, AOSP-based Android firmware projects as Recognized Developer and Contributor on XDA Community Forums.
  • Senior Member ‣ 2016 - 2017
    • Contributed to some Android firmware and MOD projects as Senior Member on XDA Community Forums.

INTERESTS

  • Computer Engineering
  • Linux kernel
  • Systems Programming
  • Operating Systems
  • SRE (Site Reliability Engineering)
  • Cloud Computing
  • Cloud-native Technologies
  • Virtualization
  • Containerization
  • Photography
  • Sharing, Reading and Writing