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Obaid Abdullah

Cloud, DevOps & DevSecOps engineer

Cheaper cloud. Safer pipelines. Shorter outages.

I help small teams on AWS and GitHub cut cloud waste, lock down their CI/CD and recover from incidents faster - in fixed-price packages of 2 to 5 days.

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Obaid Abdullah

Indore, India · IST (UTC+5:30)

7merged pull requests in CNCF projects (Kyverno, PipeCD, Meshery)
11open-source repositories, each labelled live, on demand or demo
0 → 100security score of the hardening kit's example workflows, before and after
$5/mohard cost cap on my live AI demo, enforced in code

Services

Fixed scope. Fixed price. A deliverable you keep.

Founding prices for my first clients, in exchange for an honest review.

S22-3 days

GitHub Actions Pipeline Hardening

Close the CI holes behind the 2025-26 supply-chain attacks - fixed in a pull request you review.

  • Every workflow scored and explained
  • Actions pinned, tokens least-privilege, AWS keys replaced by OIDC
  • CI checks so it stays fixed
From $99 · India from ₹6k Details
S13-5 days

AWS Bill Doctor (cost & waste audit)

A read-only audit that finds what you pay AWS for and don't use, with the fix for each item.

  • 12 waste checks across every region
  • Savings ranked in dollars
  • Exact fix command for each finding
From $149 · India from ₹9k Details
S83-5 days

AWS Security Baseline Check

25 checks behind most cloud breaches - public data, open ports, old keys, no logs - scored and fixed as code.

  • Read-only review of 25 controls
  • A score and the top 5 risks in plain English
  • Fixes as Terraform, then a retest
From $149 · India from ₹9k Details
S72-3 days

Server Setup & Hardening (Ansible)

Your VPS or EC2 server hardened and rebuilt from code, with a before/after security score.

  • Key-only SSH, firewall, fail2ban, auto-patching
  • Lynis score before and after
  • The server rebuilt from Ansible code
From $99 · India from ₹6k Details

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Selected work

Built in the open, labelled honestly

Every project says what runs live, what runs on demand to save cost, and which data is synthetic.

Live (GitHub Action)

Lifeline

An open-source scorecard that checks whether a project would survive a bad day: domains, access, CI, backups and cost runway.

  • Go (zero dependencies)
  • GitHub Action
  • SARIF
  • RDAP/DNS/TLS
Case study Live scorecard
Live on demand · demo data

ShipIt Platform

Secure CI/CD on ECS Fargate: signed releases deployed by digest, and a bad release rolls itself back.

  • Go
  • Python
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
Case study
Live · capped at $5/month · synthetic incidents

IncidentScribe AI

Turns an alert into a short incident brief with Bedrock - PII removed first, spend hard-capped.

  • Python
  • AWS Lambda
  • Amazon Bedrock
  • Bedrock Guardrails
Case study Try the live demo

All 9 projects

Open source

Contributor to CNCF projects, maintainer of my own

Seven merged pull requests in Kyverno, PipeCD and Meshery, five more in review, and Lifeline - an open-source scorecard I created and maintain.

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  • Kyverno2 merged
  • PipeCD3 merged
  • Meshery2 merged
  • Lifelinecreator and maintainer

How I work

Low risk for you, from the first call

  1. 15-minute callWe agree on the problem, the scope and a fixed price. No access needed to start.
  2. Least-privilege accessA read-only role or a pull request. Never passwords or long-lived keys.
  3. Evidence you keepA report, a pull request or a runbook, and a short handover video.
  4. 30-day follow-upI check that the fixes held and answer questions for a month.

Free tools

Useful with or without hiring me

Free ops health scan

Send me your GitHub organisation and domain. I run Lifeline, my open-source scorecard, and send you a short report of the risks worth fixing first - with or without me.

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Obaid Abdullah

About

I'm Obaid, a final-year Computer Engineering student at IET DAVV, Indore, and I build cloud infrastructure the way production teams do: Terraform on AWS, GitHub Actions without stored keys, Kubernetes with GitOps, and monitoring that tells you what broke and why.

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