Ameer Adel

Built a production-style DevOps platform around a Node.js Notes API, covering containerization, AWS infrastructure provisioning, Kubernetes deployment, CI/CD, monitoring, and troubleshooting.

Provisioned AWS infrastructure using Terraform, including EC2-based K3s cluster resources, security groups, SSH key integration, and reusable infrastructure configuration.

Built a 3-node K3s cluster with one control-plane node and two worker nodes, using taints to keep application workloads scheduled on worker nodes.

Containerized the API with a production-focused Dockerfile, non-root user setup, runtime environment variables, and Docker Compose for local development.

Deployed the application and PostgreSQL to Kubernetes using Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, Secrets, PVCs, imagePullSecrets, and resource requests/limits.

Implemented liveness and readiness probes to separate application health from database readiness and improve traffic routing during failure scenarios.

Configured NGINX reverse proxy and Kubernetes ingress routing, and integrated Prometheus and Grafana dashboards for traffic, latency, error rates, CPU, memory, and application metrics.

Created a GitHub Actions CI workflow to build and publish Docker images to AWS ECR, with Kubernetes pulling private images using imagePullSecrets.

Documented the architecture, CI/CD flow, monitoring setup, troubleshooting process, and production-oriented DevOps decisions.

GitHub: github.com/ameeradel/notes-api-devops-k3s

• Independent / Freelance Experience
  Linux VPS Deployment & Production Support
  Contabo VPS | Linux | Docker
  Jun 2024 – Dec 2025
  
  Deployed and supported an iResponse mail-sending application hosted on a Contabo Linux VPS in a production-like environment.
  
  Provisioned and configured the Linux server, installed required system packages, runtime dependencies, and application prerequisites.
  
  Dockerized the application to improve deployment consistency, portability, and environment isolation across server changes.
  
  Monitored server health, application availability, and operational behavior during live usage.
  
  Troubleshot runtime bugs, dependency issues, container failures, and server-side errors while the application was actively used.
  
  Supported application operations from an infrastructure and reliability perspective, helping keep the platform available and functional.
  
  Gained hands-on experience in Linux administration, Docker-based deployment, production support, monitoring, and incident troubleshooting.