Cloud Infrastructure · Kubernetes · DevOps

Erfan Aljanabi

Kubernetes & DevOps Engineer

Infrastructure engineer with hands-on experience building and troubleshooting Kubernetes platforms, automating infrastructure, validating enterprise systems, and operating Linux environments. Focused on reliable delivery, secure networking, observability, and repeatable cloud-native operations.

Austin, Texas erf.jan.us@gmail.com +1 512 508 9167 LinkedIn GitHub

Professional Experience

QA Lead

Dell Technologies / VVDN
Austin, TX
  • Develop comprehensive QA plans, test strategies, and test cases aligned with project and platform requirements.
  • Establish quality standards, KPIs, coverage metrics, defect reporting, and release-readiness criteria.
  • Execute platform bring-up, upgrade and downgrade validation, compatibility testing, regression testing, and defect analysis.
  • Collaborate with development, product, project management, and infrastructure teams to integrate quality throughout delivery.
  • Identify process gaps and improve repeatability through automation, clear documentation, and measurable quality controls.

Senior Test Automation Engineer

AMD
Austin, TX
  • Built Python and Bash automation for system-level validation, regression testing, and hardware/software qualification.
  • Validated server, GPU, firmware, operating system, storage, PCIe, and network behavior across Linux environments.
  • Improved test repeatability and failure analysis through reusable tooling, structured logging, and root-cause investigation.

AIX System Engineer

IBM
Austin, TX
  • Supported AIX and Linux systems, enterprise infrastructure, storage, networking, backup, patching, and operational workflows.
  • Automated administration and reporting tasks while troubleshooting performance, availability, and configuration issues.
  • Worked across technical teams to maintain stable infrastructure and resolve complex system incidents.

Selected Cloud-Native Project

Production Resume Platform on GKE

Deployed this resume website to Google Kubernetes Engine using Kubernetes Deployments and Services, Istio Gateway and VirtualService routing, cert-manager with Let’s Encrypt, GoDaddy DNS, HTTPS redirection, rolling updates, health probes, and declarative manifests.

Core Strengths

  • Kubernetes workload deployment, scheduling, networking, RBAC, storage, troubleshooting, and reliability controls.
  • Infrastructure automation with Terraform, Bash, Python, Git, CI/CD pipelines, and declarative YAML.
  • Linux administration, networking fundamentals, DNS, TLS, service mesh, monitoring, and root-cause analysis.