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Technical Consultant | DevOps Architect

Cochin, India
Joined March 2011
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PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618/109619): unauthenticated RCE in PHP 5.4–8.5.11, now on CISA's exploited list. Patch to 8.5.12 / 8.4.27 / 8.3.36 / 8.2.35, restart FPM, rebuild images. Start with that forgotten Magento or Drupal box. tenable.com/blog/php2shell-c… #PHP #Security
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Series finale: lab-to-AI on the raw zone. Models read curated, humans approve the extract — governed staging, Bedrock guardrails, and FinOps for AI spend. shameem.in/blog/2026-10-15-l… #HybridCloud #AWS #AI
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Observability data is the record, not just ops. Retention as a records decision, correlation ids as the audit trail, WORM log archives, and the X-Ray → OpenTelemetry deadline. shameem.in/blog/2026-10-08-o… #HybridCloud #AWS #Observability
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CI/CD under GxP change control: the PR is the change record, the pipeline is the evidence machine. 21 CFR Part 11 mapped onto pipelines — approvals, evidence bundles, e-signatures, segregation of duties. shameem.in/blog/2026-10-01-v… #HybridCloud #AWS #DevOps #GxP
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Should your raw instrument zone become Iceberg? Originals stay objects; what you derive, join, or filter repeatedly becomes a table. A placement checklist + migration plan with S3 Tables. shameem.in/blog/2026-09-24-r… #HybridCloud #AWS #DevOps
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Poller, DataSync, or S3 Events? Match the ingestion pattern to the instrument's capability, not once for the whole lab. A decision table + the parts you need regardless of pattern: checksums, manifests, quarantine, one run_id. shameem.in/blog/2026-09-17-i… #HybridCloud #AWS #DevOps
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ALCOA+ for platform engineers: audit questions get engineering answers. CloudTrail data events, S3 versioning, Object Lock, KMS — mapped principle by principle. Phase 2 of the lab-to-cloud series begins. shameem.in/blog/2026-09-10-a… #AWS #GxP #DevOps
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Amazon Linux 2 is EOL — and the migration tail is long. Inventory, the AL2023 breakage list (dnf, systemd, cgroups v2), and per-service checklists for ECS, Batch, and Lambda. shameem.in/blog/2026-09-03-a… #AWS #DevOps
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Hybrid lab-to-cloud, the series finale: a go-live and recovery checklist. A named rollback, a replay procedure for one run_id, and a stale-pending alarm — in writing, before cutover. shameem.in/blog/2026-08-27-h… #HybridCloud #AWS #DevOps
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Hybrid lab-to-cloud: observing and debugging data transfers. A run_id on every log line and metric — plus stall alarms and a first-fifteen-minutes playbook. Without it, hybrid debugging is archaeology. shameem.in/blog/2026-08-20-o… #HybridCloud #AWS #DevOps #Observability
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Hybrid lab-to-cloud: idempotent pollers, retries, and quarantine paths. A per-file state machine with a finite retry budget and a first-class quarantine prefix — so a crashed agent doesn't double-process or loop forever. shameem.in/blog/2026-08-13-i… #HybridCloud #AWS #DevOps
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Hybrid lab-to-cloud: IAM and KMS across the boundary. Why SSE-KMS AccessDenied is a key-policy problem, not an S3 problem — plus least-privilege identities, prefix isolation, and a diagnosis quick reference. shameem.in/blog/2026-08-06-i… #HybridCloud #AWS #DevOps #Security
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Hybrid lab-to-cloud: move instrument data to S3, reliably. Immutable keys, multipart uploads, source checksums, completion markers before consumers run. A transfer checklist for platform engineers. shameem.in/blog/2026-07-30-m… #HybridCloud #AWS #DevOps
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Hybrid lab-to-cloud: map the data path before you write upload code. Source → landing zone → transfer → S3 → validation. Discovery checklist for platform engineers. shameem.in/blog/2026-07-23-h… #HybridCloud #AWS #DevOps
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AWS Batch on EC2: the deployment checklist I hand to teammates before a pipeline go-live. Network, IAM roles, compute env, job defs, debugging RUNNABLE. shameem.in/blog/2026-07-07-a… #AWS #AWSBatch #DevOps
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Varnish in front of Drupal in 2013. AWS Batch and Terraform today. Same job: systems others can run without heroics. shameem.in/blog/2026-06-30-f… #PlatformEngineering #DevOps #AWS
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8 CloudWatch Logs Insights queries I reuse when metrics look fine but users report errors. Error spikes, ECS task stops, tail latency — first 15 minutes toolkit. shameem.in/blog/2026-06-23-c… #AWS #CloudWatch #DevOps
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Three "similar but not quite the same" Terraform env folders is a production incident waiting to happen. New: module layout for multi-env AWS — one source, thin roots, separate state keys. shameem.in/blog/2026-06-16-t… #Terraform #AWS #DevOps
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GitHub Actions → ECR → ECS: the deploy checklist I hand to teammates before a 2 a.m. release. Pin immutable SHA tags. OIDC over long-lived keys. services-stable + a real HTTP smoke test. shameem.in/blog/2026-06-09-g… #DevOps #AWS #GitHubActions
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Thrilled to join the AWS Community Day Kochi 2025 – AI/ML Edition! Can’t wait to meet fellow builders, innovators, and cloud enthusiasts. #awsugkochi #awscommunityday #acdkochi25 #acdkochi
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