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Neill Shazly

Lead Delivery Engineer / Senior DevOps Engineer. Based in Victoria, BC, Canada. Fourteen years in software delivery, the last eight focused on Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD, and identity for enterprise teams. Currently building toward ML platform and research engineering work alongside consulting.

Experience

Liatrio

Lead Delivery Engineer / Senior DevOps Engineer · Remote · September 2022 to May 2026

Delivery consultancy specializing in enterprise software delivery modernization. Ran Kubernetes, identity, and CI/CD engagements for clients in aerospace, finance, healthcare, and networking.

  • Led GitHub migration engagements ranging from multi-organization consolidations to single-org migrations of 300+ repositories, with scripts, estimates, dry-runs, and runbooks.
  • Led a team of 4 to 6 engineers delivering authentication, identity, and infrastructure automation, including custom Terraform providers and PingIdentity workflows.
  • Built reusable training material and reference solutions: TemporalIO across Java, .NET, and Go; Azure Bicep/Terraform client templates; ETL starting points.
  • Brought agent workflows (Claude Code and local models) into day-to-day development for code generation, review, and refactoring.

INgrooves (Universal Music Group)

Lead DevOps Engineer · Victoria, BC · July 2018 to September 2022

Global digital music distribution and technology company. Owned the Kubernetes platform, CI/CD, and secrets infrastructure for 30 backend and frontend applications.

  • Designed and ran a HashiCorp Vault instance on a dedicated EKS cluster, consolidating 1,000+ secrets and onboarding five development teams to OIDC, JWT, and Active Directory auth.
  • Built a hybrid AWS EKS/RKE platform replacing Rancher 1, cutting hosting costs by 50% through namespaced, higher-density environments.
  • Migrated the build pipeline from TeamCity to GitLab CI with catalog templates, raising build reliability above 99%.
  • Designed a secure EKS environment meeting financial-data handling standards, with least-privilege access and audit logging.

Chata.ai

DevOps Engineer, previously Senior Software Developer · Calgary, AB · April 2017 to July 2018

Deterministic AI analytics platform answering natural-language questions against business data.

  • Migrated the monolithic Google App Engine platform to microservices on GKE, from proof of concept through production, with a CircleCI and Helm pipeline.
  • Built a Python/Flask backend API for natural-language queries over accounting data and a QuickBooks Online integration on Apache Camel, MongoDB, and Apache Drill.

Skills

Technical skills

Cloud and platform
AWS (EKS, EC2, VPC, RDS, S3, EFS, IAM, Lambda, SQS, CloudFormation), GCP (GKE, Cloud SQL), Azure (Bicep); Kubernetes, Rancher 2, Calico, Docker, Helm, Terraform, Packer, Ansible, Linux
Languages
Python, Java (Spring Boot), Go, Bash; TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL
Tooling
GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, HashiCorp Vault, PingIdentity, TemporalIO, Ambassador Gateway, Datadog, Splunk
Data
PostgreSQL, MSSQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka; data modelling and integration