About
Irfan Nazer
Senior Cloud & Platform Engineer. 4+ years of professional engineering. Based in India (IST). Overlaps with US East mornings and Europe afternoons.
I build the cloud foundations, platforms, automation, and engineering systems that let a product and its team operate reliably. The work spans cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, data systems, and the API edge. The record is on the Work page. It is employment. Independent work is what I am opening now.
I would rather automate a repeated change than staff it. A platform a second team can use is worth more than a one-off environment. Infrastructure as code is how that stays true after I am not in the room: the change is reviewable, the environment is reproducible, and the next person can see what production actually is.
I stay through production. Governance, identity, and cost belong in the design, not in a follow-up project. If a number is on this site, it is an outcome of a system I built and operated, not a personal claim sitting next to a tool name.
On an engagement I sit with your engineers, in your cloud account, under your NDA. Some of these systems run in client environments and cannot be publicly detailed. Where that limit applies, the note stays on the problem, the architecture, the scale, and the outcome. I keep the number of engagements small so the ownership is real.