name: Shams Zia
role: Founder @ Unicodrex | DevSecOps Enthusiast | Community Builder
location: Lahore, Pakistan
what_i_do:
- 🚀 Growing Unicodrex and the developer community
- 🛡️ Passionate about DevSecOps and Cloud-Native security
- 🌐 Organizing tech events via CNCF
- 💻 Contributing to Open Source projects
currently:
- 📚 Learning Advanced AI through Anthropic AI certifications
- ☁️ Collaborating on Cloud-Native computing & AI Hackathons
- 🧠 Brainstorming open-source architecture
passionate_about:
- 🚢 Docker, Kubernetes & Infrastructure as Code
- 🤖 Artificial Intelligence & Automation
- 🌍 Building impactful developer communities
- 🏋️♂️ Gym and a good PR (Pull Request!)
open_to:
- Remote Software Engineering roles
- DevSecOps / Cloud Engineering opportunities
- Open Source collaboration & AI research
End-to-end CI/CD pipeline with integrated security scanning using Trivy + SonarQube + Snyk. Automated container builds, image vulnerability scans, and Kubernetes deployment with zero-downtime rollouts.
Infrastructure as Code project provisioning full AWS environments — VPCs, EKS clusters, RDS instances, and monitoring stacks using Terraform modules and Ansible playbooks.
Community tooling and event coordination resources for CNCF Cloud Native Lahore — bridging academia and industry for 500+ developers across Pakistan.
🛡️ Deepening expertise in DevSecOps — container security, supply chain security, and zero-trust architectures
🌐 Scaling Unicodrex — mentorship series targeting students' first DevOps/Cloud roles
📚 Advancing knowledge in Kubernetes internals, service mesh (Istio), and GitOps with ArgoCD
I founded Unicodrex to close the gap between what universities teach and what the industry expects.
| What | Numbers |
|---|---|
| 👨💻 Students mentored via GitHub & LinkedIn visibility series | 500+ |
| 🎤 Tech events & workshops organized | 14+ |
| 🌐 Community partners | CNCF Cloud Native Lahore · AWS Community Pakistan · Cloud Native Security Pakistan · GDG Cloud Lahore |
| 🎯 Mission | Bridge academia and industry — give students real-world insights before their first interview |
