Amaan Ul Haq Siddiqui
Building infrastructure at scale across AWS, OCI, and Azure. Designing observability stacks, hardening platform security, and shipping open source tooling that fills real gaps.
Multi-cloud infrastructure, enterprise observability, large-scale migrations, and platform security for an AWS Premier Implementation Partner and MSP.
Cloud Native Karachi
Founding organizer of the city's first official CNCF Community Group, approved 22 July 2026 after clearing LFC102, vendor-neutrality, and organizer-diversity review.
Stack
Desirable Difficulties
Desirable difficulties is a cognitive psychology idea: making learning harder on purpose slows you down now and makes it stick later. This is the loop I run on to keep growing as a platform engineer, and the one I'm running now to get my head around AI/ML.
I Stopped Clicking Through the AWS Pricing Calculator. Now I Just Describe the Architecture.
The AWS Pricing Calculator MCP lets Claude build a real estimate from a sentence and hand back a shareable calculator.aws URL. No credentials, no clicking. For presales engineers this is the difference between a same-day quote and 'let me get back to you next week.'
I Got Tired of Passing --profile on Every OCI CLI Command
ocswitch is a small shell script that manages multiple OCI profiles and persists the active one across all terminal sessions. No more --profile flags, no more editing config files.
DNS as Code: Managing Cloudflare Records with DNSControl
Manual DNS edits in dashboards leave no audit trail and no review process. DNSControl turns your Cloudflare zone into a Git-backed, PR-reviewed, CI-deployed system - here is a working POC you can fork.