Hello. I am Faizan Bashir. This website is a unique fusion of my personal experiences, philosophical musings, and thoughts on cloud computing architectures.
Professionally, I am a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Honeywell Inc. I am 3x Kubernetes certified (CKA, CKAD, CKS) and 3x Azure certified. My primary focus is designing, deploying, and operating highly available, containerized microservices systems at scale. I edge towards being a specialized generalist—identifying as a T-shaped professional with deep expertise in systems reliability and broad capability across software engineering.
Technical Toolkit
- Languages & Frameworks: Golang (Gin), Python (Flask), Node.js (Express), PHP (Laravel, Lumen). Used extensively for API development, microservices, and scripting automation.
- Cloud Environments: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Including managed Kubernetes instances like AKS, EKS, and GKE.
- Container Orchestration: Kubernetes, RedHat OpenShift, ECS, Docker Swarm, and KEDA (event-driven autoscaling).
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Provisioning and templates with Terraform, Packer, Ansible, and Azure Resource Manager (ARM).
- Observability & Streaming: Designing telemetry setups with Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana (Elastic Stack), Apache Kafka, and EventHubs.
Beyond engineering, I write about tech. I am a published tech blogger on freeCodeCamp, HackerNoon, and DigitalOcean. Writing helps me refine my thoughts, share knowledge, and contribute to the developer community.
Beyond the Screen
Apart from exploring our beautiful physical world, my diverse interests range from higher poetry and philosophy to politics, economics, and history. I believe a perceptive person bears many impressions from their surroundings.
I find deep inspiration in the illuminated thoughts of the poet-philosopher Sir Muhammad Iqbal (especially his concept of Khudi or Selfhood) and the imaginative genius of the great German poet-statesman Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (who prioritized action and creation). Their words remind me to approach engineering not just as code execution, but as a deliberate creative act.