Meer Sawood — Senior Platform Engineer, Dubai

Platform engineer (6+ years, ex-Red Hat) who deploys and owns production infrastructure end-to-end. Founder of Winch Labs (winchlabs.io), building Garboard — govern infrastructure at the pull request. Sole owner of multi-account AWS + EKS estates powering a mission-critical enterprise retailing platform. Built permanent DR capability during a live AWS regional outage, hardened estates to enterprise security standards, and cut cloud spend ~20%. Kubernetes, Helm, GitOps, ArgoCD, Crossplane, Karpenter, Istio, Datadog, Terraform, Go, Python, TypeScript. Contact: me@msawood.com.