# Shaik Ahmad Nawaz

**Full Stack Engineer • Infra & AI**

Building scalable applications from the ground up, architecting resilient cloud infrastructure, and integrating practical AI solutions to solve real-world problems.

- Location: Hyderabad, India
- Website: https://shaikahmadnawaz.dev
- GitHub: https://github.com/shaikahmadnawaz
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaikahmadnawaz
- X: https://x.com/shaikahmadnawaz

## Navigation
- [Home](https://shaikahmadnawaz.dev/)
- [Projects](https://shaikahmadnawaz.dev/projects)
- [Series](https://shaikahmadnawaz.dev/series)
- [Blog](https://shaikahmadnawaz.dev/blog)
- [Papers](https://shaikahmadnawaz.dev/papers)

## Skills
- Frontend: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, TanStack, Zustand
- Backend: Node.js, Express, Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
- DevOps: Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure, AWS, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Jenkins
- AI / ML: LLMs, Ollama, RAG, LangChain, LangGraph, Agents, MCP

## Current Work
### SDE-I — mybizz ERP
- Aug 2024 - Present · Hyderabad, India
- Managing AKS, VNets, App Gateway, and Jenkins CI/CD for production microservices.
- Architecting a B2B services marketplace across admin, partner, and customer portals.
- Shipping AI OCR and lead-prospecting systems with FastAPI and Gemini-class tooling.

### React Developer Intern — mybizz ERP
- Apr 2024 - Jul 2024 · Hyderabad, India
- Built a Next.js and MDX learning hub.
- Developed 75+ landing pages with React and Tailwind CSS.

## Achievements
- 1st Place - Webathon
- Technology Award 2023
- Microsoft Azure Developer Associate
- Google Cloud Digital Leader

## Content Inventory
- Blog posts: 30
- Papers: 2
- Series: 6

## Recent Posts
- [ConfigMaps and Secrets in Kubernetes](https://shaikahmadnawaz.dev/series/devops/kubernetes-config-secrets) — How configuration and secrets work in Kubernetes - ConfigMaps and Secrets, env vars vs file mounts and the live-update difference, why Secrets are encoded not encrypted, projected volumes and the downward API, and immutability.
- [Safe Rollouts in Kubernetes](https://shaikahmadnawaz.dev/series/devops/kubernetes-rollouts) — How to ship changes in Kubernetes without downtime - rolling updates with maxSurge/maxUnavailable, the readiness gate, rollbacks, PodDisruptionBudgets that protect availability during drains, and pod priority and preemption.
- [How Kubernetes Storage Actually Works](https://shaikahmadnawaz.dev/series/devops/kubernetes-storage) — How persistent storage works in Kubernetes - PersistentVolumes and Claims, StorageClasses and dynamic provisioning, CSI drivers, access modes (RWO/ROX/RWX), reclaim policies, zone-aware binding, and the gotchas that cause data loss and stuck pods.
- [How Kubernetes Networking Actually Works](https://shaikahmadnawaz.dev/series/devops/kubernetes-networking) — How traffic actually moves in a Kubernetes cluster - the flat pod network, why Services exist, the four Service types, endpoints, headless services, CoreDNS service discovery, and how Ingress routes the outside world in.
- [Which Kubernetes Workload to Use](https://shaikahmadnawaz.dev/series/devops/kubernetes-workload-types) — Every Kubernetes workload controller encodes an assumption about your app - stateless and interchangeable, stable identity, one-per-node, or run-to-completion. A practical guide to Deployment, StatefulSet, DaemonSet, Job, and CronJob, and how to pick the right one.

## Recent Papers
- [Attention Is All You Need](https://shaikahmadnawaz.dev/papers/attention-is-all-you-need) — The paper that introduced the Transformer architecture - replacing RNNs with self-attention for sequence modeling.
- [Design and Implementation of a Cloud Native Application for Collaborative Learning](https://shaikahmadnawaz.dev/papers/cloud-native-collaborative-learning) — My published research paper on LearnSpace - a cloud-native collaborative learning platform built with the MERN stack, deployed on AWS with a full CI/CD pipeline.

## Agent Discovery
- Markdown homepage: https://shaikahmadnawaz.dev/agent-markdown-home
- Agent skills index: https://shaikahmadnawaz.dev/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json
- Portfolio skill doc: https://shaikahmadnawaz.dev/.well-known/agent-skills/portfolio-discovery/SKILL.md