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name: Muhammad Abdullah Bin Tariq
role: DevSecOps Engineer
location: Pakistan 🇵🇰
education: Cybersecurity & Cloud Computing
ethos: "Get better every day, conquer yourself, then the World 💪"
motto: "الله ورسوله أولاً، ثم عائلتي"

current_mission: |
  Building secure, scalable cloud infrastructure
  while advancing DevSecOps best practices
  
approach: |
  Security-first mindset in everything I build
  Automation over manual intervention
  Continuous learning and improvement
  
fun_facts:
  - 🎯 I automate everything I can
  - 🧩 Puzzle solver at heart
  - ☕ Coffee-powered engineer
  - 🌙 Night owl coder

• 🔐 Mastering: Terraform for Infrastructure as Code, Ansible for Configuration Management
• ☸️ Deepening: Kubernetes Security, Service Mesh (Istio/Linkerd), and Cloud-Native Security
• ☁️ Architecting: Multi-cloud strategies across AWS, GCP, and Azure
• 🛡️ Specializing: Red Team, Blue Team, and Purple Team operations
• 📝 Sharing: Writing technical articles on Medium about DevSecOps and Cloud Security
• 🌱 Learning: Advanced threat modeling, zero-trust architecture, and SBOM (Software Bill of Materials)

• ☁️ Cloud Security Architecture (AWS/GCP/Azure)
• 🔐 DevSecOps Pipeline Implementation
• ☸️ Kubernetes Security & Hardening
• 🛡️ Penetration Testing & Vulnerability Assessment
• 🔴 Red Team, 🔵 Blue Team, 🟣 Purple Team Strategies
• 🐳 Container Security & Supply Chain Security
• 📊 Security Monitoring & Incident Response
• 🔧 Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Ansible)

timeline
    title Career Journey of Muhammad Abdullah Bin Tariq
    section Education & Early Career
        2019 : Started Cybersecurity Journey
             : First security certifications
        2020 : Deep dive into Cloud Computing
             : AWS & Azure fundamentals
    section Professional Growth
        2021 : DevOps transformation
             : CI/CD pipeline mastery
        2022 : CISSP Certified at 22 🏆
             : Youngest graduate achievement
    section Current & Future
        2023 : DevSecOps Leadership
             : Multi-cloud security architect
        2024 : Cloud Security Innovation
             : Zero Trust implementation
        2025 : Next Goals: CISA & CISM
             : Building the future of security

┌─────────────────────┐
│  Cybersecurity &    │
│  Cloud Computing    │
│    Graduate 🎓      │
└─────────────────────┘

┌─────────────────────┐
│  CISSP Certified    │
│  at Age 22 🥇       │
│  Youngest Graduate  │
└─────────────────────┘

┌─────────────────────┐
│ DevSecOps Engineer  │
│ Cloud Security      │
│ Architect 🔐        │
└─────────────────────┘

├── Security Policies
├── Standards & Procedures
├── Security Architecture
├── Board Reporting
└── Strategic Planning

├── Risk Assessment
├── Threat Modeling
├── Business Impact Analysis
├── Risk Treatment
└── Risk Monitoring

├── ISO 27001/27002
├── NIST CSF/800-53
├── SOC 2 Type II
├── PCI-DSS
└── GDPR/HIPAA

• 🏅 Youngest CISSP Graduate at Age 22 - Aiming to be the youngest CISA and CISM certified professional
• 🔐 DevSecOps Expertise - Successfully implemented security automation across CI/CD pipelines
• ☁️ Multi-Cloud Architecture - Designed and deployed secure infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP
• 📝 Technical Writer - Regular contributor to cybersecurity and DevOps communities on Medium
• 🌍 Open Source Advocate - Active contributor to security and DevOps open-source projects

DevSecOps      ██████████████░░░░░░░░░   35.2%
Cloud Security █████████████░░░░░░░░░░░   30.8%
IaC/Terraform  ████████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░   15.5%
Kubernetes     █████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░   10.2%
Documentation  ██░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░    5.3%
Other          █░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░    3.0%

💼 Work Focus:
├── 🔐 Security Automation        - 12+ hrs
├── ☁️ Cloud Infrastructure       - 10+ hrs
├── 🐳 Container Security         - 8+ hrs
├── 📊 Monitoring & Observability - 6+ hrs
└── 📝 Documentation & Blogs      - 4+ hrs

🛠️ Technologies Used:                                        
├── Terraform & Ansible           ████████████░░░░   40%
├── Kubernetes & Docker           ██████████░░░░░░   35%
├── Python & Bash                 ████████░░░░░░░░   20%
└── Go & JavaScript               ██░░░░░░░░░░░░░░    5%

🦉 WAZIR — Agentic Discord Assistant A self-hosted, agentic AI assistant living in Discord — with its own lore, identity, and heraldic crest. Consolidated to a single hardened agent, with resilient model routing and a full branding suite (SOUL.md, IDENTITY.md, MEMORY.md, INFRASTRUCTURE.md). Agentic Routing Reliability Systemd Owl Crest 🦉	🧠 HAKIM — Local LLM Inference Server The local-first brain behind WAZIR — Ollama + Qwen 2.5 running on Oracle Cloud Always Free (Ampere ARM). Tuned for CPU inference: solved idle-timeout kills, iptables/OCI firewall layering, and cloud-fallback routing. ARM64 Qwen 2.5 Cost: $0 Two-Server Topology
🛰️ SOCIRIS — Final Year Project An integrated Security + IoT + AI system, delivered as a team capstone at ILMA University. Combined threat-aware sensing, intelligent analysis, and a security-first architecture. Capstone Team Project Applied Research	➕ Your Next Build The lab never sleeps. Next flagship build loading…

├── Portainer-CE
├── Docker Compose
├── Kubernetes
└── Velero (backup)

├── Authentik (IdP)
├── Vaultwarden
├── HashiCorp Vault
└── Netbird (VPN)

├── Grafana + Prometheus
├── Loki + Alertmanager
├── Netdata
└── Uptime tracking

├── NextCloud
├── MeshCentral
├── RustDesk / Guacamole
└── Snipe-IT (assets)

✏️ Swap the marked rows for your real setup — this section is a flex when it's accurate.

🎧 Music genres I code to:

Lo-Fi Nasheed Classical Ambient Electronic OST Soundtrack

📚 Recent Articles on Medium

Title	Topic	Date
🔐 DevSecOps Best Practices in 2024	Security, DevOps	Latest
☁️ Multi-Cloud Security Architecture	Cloud, Security	Recent
🐳 Container Security Deep Dive	Kubernetes, Security	Recent
🛡️ Zero-Trust Implementation Guide	Security, Architecture	Recent

class MatX104:
    def __init__(self):
        self.name = "Muhammad Abdullah Bin Tariq"
        self.alias = "Monarch+_+MAT"
        self.role = "DevSecOps Engineer"
        self.code = ["Python", "Bash", "Go", "JavaScript", "TypeScript"]
        self.tools = ["Terraform", "Ansible", "Kubernetes", "Docker"]
        self.cloud = ["AWS", "Azure", "GCP"]
        self.current_focus = "Building Zero Trust Architecture"
        self.homelab = ["WAZIR 🦉", "HAKIM 🧠", "Authentik", "NextCloud"]
        self.mentality = "King Barou — I am the apex 👑"
        
    def say_bismillah(self):
        return "بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْم"
    
    def daily_routine(self):
        return {
            "morning": "☀️ Fajr Prayer → Coffee → News",
            "day": "💻 Code → Security Reviews → Meetings",
            "evening": "🏃 Football / Archery / Gym → Family → Reading",
            "night": "🌙 Deep Work → Learning → Sleep"
        }
    
    def life_goals(self):
        return [
            "🎯 Become youngest CISA & CISM",
            "📚 Write a cybersecurity book",
            "🌍 Build a security community",
            "💼 Start a security consultancy"
        ]
        
me = MatX104()

🕌 The Foundation - Islamic Texts

📖 The Holy Quran The ultimate source of guidance, wisdom, and truth. The foundation of my life, decisions, and character. "وَقُل رَّبِّ زِدْنِي عِلْمًا" "And say: My Lord, increase me in knowledge" - Surah Ta-Ha: 114

📚 Hadith Collections The teachings and practices of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ that guide my daily conduct and professional ethics. "خَيْرُكُمْ مَنْ تَعَلَّمَ الْقُرْآنَ وَعَلَّمَهُ" "The best among you are those who learn the Quran and teach it"

🗡️ The Book of Five Rings Miyamoto Musashi The way of strategy, the art of combat, and the philosophy of the warrior. Musashi's timeless wisdom on mastery, discipline, and the pursuit of excellence. "You must understand that there is more than one path to the top of the mountain."

👑 The 48 Laws of Power Robert Greene Understanding the dynamics of power, influence, and human nature. Essential reading for navigating complex professional environments. "Never outshine the master... but always be ready to take their place."

🦁 The Prince Niccolò Machiavelli The foundational text on political strategy and leadership. Understanding power dynamics and the art of governance. "It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both."

• Grafana - Visualization and analytics
• Prometheus - Metrics and alerting
• Zabbix - Enterprise monitoring
• Nagios Core - Infrastructure monitoring
• Thanos - Prometheus long-term storage
• Jaeger - Distributed tracing
• Loki - Log aggregation
• Alertmanager - Alert handling
• VictoriaMetrics - Time series database
• Weave Scope - Container monitoring
• Netdata - Real-time performance monitoring
• Node Exporter - Hardware and OS metrics
• cAdvisor - Container metrics
• Kube-Prometheus - Kubernetes monitoring stack

• Kibana - Log visualization
• Fluentd - Log collection
• Fluent Bit - Lightweight log processor
• Splunk - Enterprise log management
• LogicMonitor - Infrastructure monitoring
• Site24x7 - Application performance monitoring

• New Relic - Application performance monitoring
• Sysdig - Container intelligence
• OpenTelemetry - Observability framework
• Sentry - Error tracking

• pfSense - Open source firewall
• OPNsense - Firewall and routing platform
• Cisco ASA - Enterprise firewall
• PacketFence - Network access control

• OpenVAS - Vulnerability scanner
• Qualys - Cloud security & compliance
• Nessus - Vulnerability scanner
• Burp Suite Pro - Web application security
• OWASP ZAP - Web app security scanner

• Metasploit - Penetration testing framework
• Kali Linux - Penetration testing distribution
• Parrot OS - Security testing platform
• BlackArch Linux - Penetration testing distribution
• Atomic Red Team - Security testing framework

• Wireshark - Network protocol analyzer
• NMAP - Network discovery
• Trivy - Container vulnerability scanner
• ClamAV - Antivirus engine
• OSSEC - Host-based intrusion detection
• Tripwire - File integrity monitoring
• Samhain - HIDS and file integrity checker
• AWS GuardDuty - Threat detection service

• Webmin - Web-based system administration
• Auvik - Network management
• ManageEngine OpManager - Network monitoring
• Observium - Network monitoring platform
• LibreNMS - Auto-discovering network monitoring
• Icinga 2 - Monitoring system
• Checkmk - IT monitoring
• Munin - Network monitoring
• NetXMS - Network management system
• Ntopng - Traffic analysis
• OpenNMS - Network management
• Ganglia - Distributed monitoring system
• Monit - Unix system monitoring
• Shinken - Monitoring framework

• MeshCentral - Remote management
• RPort - Remote access solution
• Rust Desk - Remote desktop software
• Guacamole - Clientless remote desktop gateway
• PiKVM - KVM over IP

• Snipe-IT - IT asset management
• GLPI - IT service management
• ERPNext - Enterprise resource planning
• Plane - Project management

• Portainer-CE - Container management
• Docker Compose - Multi-container orchestration
• Velero - Kubernetes backup

• Vaultwarden - Password management
• Authentik - Identity provider
• Netbird - VPN platform

• NextCloud - File hosting

• Atera - IT management platform
• NinjaOne - IT operations software
• AppNeta PathTest - Network testing

• Jenkins - Automation server
• GitLab CI/CD - Built-in CI/CD
• GitHub Actions - Workflow automation
• CircleCI - Continuous integration
• Travis CI - CI service
• ArgoCD - GitOps continuous delivery
• Tekton - Cloud-native CI/CD
• Octopus - Deployment automation

• Docker - Containerization
• Kubernetes - Container orchestration
• Helm - Kubernetes package manager
• Istio - Service mesh
• Linkerd - Service mesh
• Telepresence - Local Kubernetes development

• Trivy - Container security scanner
• Snyk - Developer security platform
• SonarQube - Code quality analysis
• Vault - Secrets management
• Sysdig - Container security
• Aqua Security - Container security platform

• Prometheus - Monitoring system
• Grafana - Visualization platform
• New Relic - Application monitoring
• Sentry - Error tracking
• OpenTelemetry - Observability framework

• Terraform - Infrastructure provisioning
• Ansible - Configuration management
• CloudFormation - AWS infrastructure as code
• Pulumi - Cloud infrastructure as code

• Velero - Kubernetes backup
• Restic - Backup program
• Duplicati - Backup solution

• AWS CLI - Amazon Web Services command line
• Azure CLI - Microsoft Azure command line
• GCP CLI (gcloud) - Google Cloud Platform command line
• eksctl - Amazon EKS command line
• az - Azure resource management

• docker - Container management
• kubectl - Kubernetes command line
• helm - Kubernetes package manager
• k9s - Kubernetes TUI
• Podman - Daemonless container engine
• crictl - Container runtime interface CLI

• git - Version control
• vim/nvim - Text editor
• tmux - Terminal multiplexer
• screen - Terminal multiplexer
• htop - Interactive process viewer
• btop - Resource monitor

• bash - Bourne Again Shell
• zsh - Z Shell
• fish - Friendly Interactive Shell
• python - Python interpreter
• node - Node.js runtime
• go - Go programming language

• curl - Transfer data with URLs
• wget - Network downloader
• nmap - Network exploration tool
• netcat (nc) - Networking utility
• tcpdump - Network packet analyzer
• dig - DNS lookup utility
• traceroute - Network path tracer
• ping - Network connectivity test
• ss - Socket statistics
• ip - Network configuration

• ssh - Secure Shell
• gpg - GNU Privacy Guard
• openssl - SSL/TLS toolkit
• fail2ban - Intrusion prevention
• ufw - Uncomplicated Firewall

• top - Process monitoring
• iotop - I/O monitoring
• nethogs - Network bandwidth monitor
• iftop - Network traffic monitor
• dstat - System statistics

• ansible - Automation tool
• terraform - Infrastructure as code
• vagrant - Development environments
• packer - Image builder

• jenkins-cli - Jenkins command line
• gh - GitHub CLI
• gitlab-cli - GitLab command line
• argocd - ArgoCD CLI

⚙️ Playstyle: pressure + precision · read the opponent, punish the greed, close the gap. ✏️ Set your true rank + signature combos here — e.g. Rank: [your rank] · Go-to: [your bnb combo].

Barou first — the apex predator — with Isagi's adaptability, Noa's craft, Kaiser's flair, Shidou's chaos, and Rin's cold precision.

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الله ورسوله أولاً، ثم عائلتي

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💚 Thank You for Visiting!

"Get better every day, conquer yourself, then the World 💪"

— Monarch+_+MAT

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DevSecOps Engineer | Cloud Security Architect

Made with ❤️ and ☕ by Muhammad Abdullah Bin Tariq

🔄 Last Updated: August 2026
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