Salam, and hi, I'm Sohaib. I've spent the last few years doing platform engineering at some big firms, and I've reached the point where I'd rather build my own things than only ship other people's. Most people consume what gets built. I want to be on the other side of that, making things that work and showing other engineers how I got there.
The trace below is scripted, not live. The real agent is deployed and free to try; the public instance replays recorded runs, so it costs nothing.
Two flagships, deployed and open to anyone, with the depth behind them. Then the rest.
Incident agent with five SRE tools, streaming each call as it investigates.
An MCP server that makes context window usage visible for any agent loop.
Islamic Home Purchase Plans compared against conventional mortgages. Free, no tracking.
Azure OpenAI deployments from YAML, with a Python pipeline for quota discovery and capacity weighting.
Vertex AI Vector Search indexes and endpoints, with Python for embeddings and validation.
Next.js on Cloud Run behind a global load balancer, with Cloud Armor and rate limiting.
Flask on ECS Fargate with VPC, ALB, Route 53 and a health endpoint wired to the ECS check.
Platform work is mostly invisible, so here it is written up the way I would write a postmortem. Tap a card for the full breakdown.
Four roles, all delivery-facing. The through-line is platform work other engineers depend on.
Senior AI Platform Engineer. Run three agentic AI agents on AWS Bedrock and Ruby on Rails, turning natural-language questions into governed SQL and dashboards. Built the guardrail eval suite (64 adversarial prompts across the OWASP LLM Top 10), an LLM-as-judge harness gating every release, and cross-region failover with per-tenant token budgets.
Senior Cloud & AI Engineer. Helped design and roll out LSEG’s enterprise AI platform on Azure AI Foundry, hosting LLMs and agentic workflows for 200+ projects. Automated deployment of 50+ LLMs, cutting rollout from 30 minutes to 2, and built an MCP server for a US team’s agentic workflow. Escalated weekly to Microsoft’s AI Product team and demoed to the CTO.
Senior DevOps Engineer. Shipped an AI compliance app into NatWest, Barclays and Deutsche Bank through five client POCs to production: document comparison, summarisation and RAG based Q&A over 10+ Azure OpenAI deployments. Built the Python backend on Cosmos DB and Azure AI Search, and wired APIM and Application Insights observability across 15+ Azure AI services.
DevOps Engineer. Serverless and EKS workloads on AWS Lambda and API Gateway, cutting operational cost by 25%. CI/CD across Azure DevOps, Jenkins and Drone CI, with DevSecOps scanning from Anchore and SonarQube.
From people who managed me or shipped alongside me.
Sohaib, you are a delight to work with and you have continuously been supporting and helping us onboard onto this LLM platform. We’ve been able to automate our workflows and increase productivity by 45%.
Sohaib is a strong Platform Engineer with excellent technical acumen and a practical approach to solving complex problems. He learns quickly, takes ownership, and has a solid understanding of cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, and developer/AI platforms. What stands out is his curiosity, reliability, and ability to turn new concepts into practical solutions. Sohaib has a strong growth mindset and the technical foundation to make a meaningful impact in platform engineering. I’ve really enjoyed seeing his progress and would be confident in his ability to thrive in a strong engineering environment.
I had the pleasure of managing Sohaib directly, and he consistently impressed me with his strong technical capability, curiosity, and willingness to take on complex challenges. Sohaib is particularly strong in DevOps, automation, AI, and modern engineering practices. One of his biggest strengths is how quickly he learns new technologies and turns that knowledge into practical solutions. He contributed to several innovation initiatives within the team, bringing new ideas, experimenting with emerging technologies, and helping us improve the way we designed and delivered solutions. Beyond his technical skills, Sohaib is proactive, dependable, and always keen to collaborate and share knowledge with others. I would highly recommend him to any organisation looking for a strong engineer who combines solid DevOps expertise with a genuine passion for AI, automation, and continuous learning.
I had the pleasure of working alongside Sohaib on the AI-powered regulatory compliance app at PwC. His technical leadership was central to transforming complex compliance requirements into a production-ready application. Sohaib architected the core RAG platform for document comparison, summarisation, and policy mapping. He built the Python backend, integrated vector storage and semantic search, and automated document ingestion pipelines, slashing indexing time by 50%. What sets Sohaib apart is his dual expertise in AI and cloud engineering: he authored modular Terraform code, built CI/CD pipelines, and implemented API Management with Application Insights for full MLOps observability into latency, token usage, and model performance. He consistently delivered secure, high-performance infrastructure and solved tough technical constraints with ease. Any team would be lucky to have Sohaib, and I’d welcome the chance to work with him again!
I take a limited number of 1:1 sessions outside of work, for people who want a steer from someone a few steps further down the same road.
Breaking into platform or AI engineering, levelling up to senior, or working out your next move.
Ongoing 1:1 support on the engineering, the projects, and the bits nobody teaches you.
Agents, MCP, LLM evaluation, guardrails, Terraform at estate scale. The things I do at work.
Three posts, each from a problem I hit at work rather than a tutorial rewritten from the docs.
Live posts, pulled straight from LinkedIn's own embed — scroll a card to read the full thing.
I’m a senior cloud and AI platform engineer based in Preston, in the UK. Five and a half years in, most of it inside regulated environments where the work has to actually hold up.
Outside the terminal I follow tech news and world affairs closely, and I travel as much as I can, more than 25 countries so far. New places, new food, new context for how other people build and live.
When I’m not working I’m usually learning a new skill, building something of my own, or talking to people about what they’re working on and where it might go.
BSc Communications and Media Studies
Brunel University of London
