Senior Platform & Software Engineer · CNCF Kubestronaut

I take products from zero to scale — and own the platform underneath.

I'm Azhan Latif. I architect cloud-native infrastructure on AWS & Kubernetes and ship the full-stack products on top of it — from CI/CD pipelines and Helm charts to the apps serving 100,000+ users.

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EuniFI · 0→60k users, year one teleportmd · HIPAA telehealth erdostracks · full rebuild bestathletes · core features
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Products I've shipped

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rkpublishing.com
AZLA Corp2025 — Present● Live

RK Publishing Platform

Architect & Lead Engineer

A consolidated multi-tenant SaaS platform for self-service content and license management — now supporting 100,000+ active students and 20,000+ media recordings monthly. Teachers manage classrooms, assign worksheets, and review student submissions in a bilingual (EN/FR) interface I architected and delivered end to end.

DjangoNext.jsReactTypeScriptPostgreSQLAWSKubernetes
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eunifi.com
Ramsey Theory2022 — 2025● Live

EuniFI

Architect & Lead Engineer

A consumer auto-marketplace I architected and launched, scaling from 0 to 60,000 users in its first year. I owned long-term scalability end to end and built AI-driven SMS workflows — letting users browse cars and schedule walk-ins entirely over text.

DjangoNext.jsReactTypeScriptAWS EKSOpenAILangChainTwilio
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teleportmd.app
Ramsey TheoryiOS · Android● Live

Teleport MD

Lead Engineer

A HIPAA-compliant telemedicine platform for real-time video consultations between providers and patients, shipped to both the App Store and Google Play. I built the backend and platform infrastructure behind secure, compliant care delivery.

DjangoReactAWSKubernetesPostgreSQLHIPAA
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erdostracks.com
Ramsey TheoryRebuild● Live

Erdos Tracks

Lead Engineer · Rebuild

A fleet route-tracking and work-order dispatch platform — drivers follow optimized routes on a live map while dispatch monitors stops, ETAs and job status in real time. I rebuilt it end to end on a modern cloud-native stack, re-architecting for performance, reliability and scale.

React NativeNext.jsDjangoPostgreSQLMaps / GeolocationAWS EKS
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bestathletes.co
Best Athletes2021 — 2022● Live

Best Athletes

Software Engineer · Core Features

Built core web-application features for an athlete-data platform. I deployed ML models and data pipelines to AWS EKS, and stood up Elasticsearch infrastructure that improved data-retrieval speed by 95% across large datasets — work that helped finalize the IRAP project and secure follow-on funding.

Vue.jsExpressTypeScriptMongoDBElasticsearchAWS EKS
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Experience

Where I've worked

2019 — present
09/2025 — Present

Founder & Lead Engineer · AZLA Corp

  • Architected and delivered a consolidated multi-tenant SaaS platform for self-service content and license management — now supporting 100,000+ active students and 20,000+ media recordings monthly.
  • Cut a major publishing client's AWS infrastructure costs by over 72% through rigorous architecture and resource optimization.
  • Architected backend & platform infrastructure on AWS (EKS, EC2, S3, SES, ELB, CloudFront) with Django, Next.js and PostgreSQL for high-traffic workloads.
  • Engineered automated CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD) deploying via Helm to enterprise Rancher/RKE2 Kubernetes clusters.
  • Built real-time conversational AI workflows integrating Twilio with OpenAI models via LangChain.
08/2022 — 08/2025

Lead Engineer · Ramsey Theory Group

  • Led the org-wide rollout of feature-branch (ephemeral preview) deployments on GitLab CI/CD — reusable Helm charts plus Python DNS automation so every merge request provisioned an isolated, fully-routed environment across Rancher/RKE2 clusters.
  • Architected and launched eunifi.com, scaling it from 0 to 60,000 users in year one and owning long-term scalability with Django, Next.js, React and TypeScript.
  • Integrated OpenAI, LangChain and Twilio to build AI-driven SMS workflows for browsing cars and scheduling walk-ins by text.
  • Led and mentored a 15-engineer team, defining team structure and standardizing agile, full-stack practices.
  • Stood up enterprise IT infrastructure from scratch, integrating Azure, Microsoft Intune and Apple Business Manager (MDM).
01/2021 — 08/2022

Software Engineer · Best Athletes

  • Migrated CI/CD from BitBucket Pipelines to CircleCI, cutting deployment build times by 60%.
  • Deployed ML models and data pipelines to Kubernetes, finalizing the IRAP project and securing subsequent funding.
  • Built Elasticsearch infrastructure that improved data-retrieval speed by 95% across large datasets.
  • Automated Python data-extraction pipelines, lowering ongoing data-acquisition costs.
07/2019 — 01/2021

Full Stack Developer · RK Publishing

  • Improved customer-fulfillment timelines by 90% through PHP application optimization, coordinating closely with operations.
  • Stood up secure mail (Postfix, Dovecot, OpenDKIM) and LAMP environments, and managed automated backups for organizational data integrity.
01/2020 — 05/2020

Software Developer · Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General

  • Built a prototype court-hearings application using Django (Python), React Native and GraphQL.
Capabilities

Skills & certifications

Cloud & Orchestration

AWS EKSEC2S3CloudFrontAzureKubernetesRancherRKE2Helm

IaC & CI/CD

TerraformGitLab CI/CDGitHub ActionsCircleCIEphemeral environmentsZero-downtime deploys

Languages

PythonTypeScriptJavaScriptBashPHPSQL

Application

DjangoNext.jsReactReact NativeExpressVue.jsGraphQL

Data

PostgreSQLMongoDBElasticsearch

AI / ML

OpenAILangChainRAGTwilioML model deployment

Enterprise IT & Security

Microsoft IntuneApple Business ManagerMDMSecurity assessmentsCost optimization
K8s

CNCF Kubestronaut

Awarded for holding all five active Kubernetes certifications simultaneously — covering the develop, operate and secure surface of the platform. Issued Apr 2026.

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Terraform Associate (004)

HashiCorp certification covering infrastructure-as-code workflows, state management and provisioning across cloud providers. Issued Apr 2026.

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Additional certifications

  • CompTIA A+ CECompTIA · 2026
  • Spring Certified ProfessionalBroadcom · 2025
  • MTA: Networking FundamentalsMicrosoft
Writing

Notes from the platform

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About

A bit about me

Azhan Latif

I'm a senior platform & software engineer who likes living at the seam between infrastructure and product. The same week I might be writing a Helm chart, tuning a Postgres query, and shipping a React feature — and I think that range is exactly what lets me take something from zero to scale and keep it reliable once it's there.

I'm a CNCF Kubestronaut, holding all five Kubernetes certifications, and a HashiCorp Terraform Associate. I work comfortably across multi-cloud (AWS & Azure) and enterprise Rancher/RKE2 — and I care about the bill: I once cut a client's AWS spend by over 72%. Most recently I founded AZLA Corp, and before that led platform engineering at Ramsey Theory Group, where I architected eunifi.com and mentored a team of fifteen.

When something I build serves real traffic, I want to own the whole lifecycle — from the feature a user clicks to the pipeline that deployed it.

Bachelor of Information Technology — Ontario Tech University
Major: Networking & IT Security · Minor: Operations Management · President's & Dean's List
Available for senior platform & infra roles

Let's build something that scales.

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