
Ahmed Gilani
Wired for Curiosity, Cloud and Onprem Infrastructure Engineer
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Cloud Solutions - Architect
Alibaba Group Holding • Fulltime
Nov 2025 - Present • 11 mos
VMware Cloud Foundation Upgrade Led the upgrade of VMware Enterprise 8 (standalone) to VMware Cloud Foundation 9, combining the infrastructure across four regions. This initiative standardized virtualization platforms, improved scalability, and enabled centralized management of multi‑region workloads Patch Automation with WSUS Designed and deployed Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) across multiple regions, automating patch approvals and rollout to streamline routine maintenance. By optimizing the patching process, ticket resolution time for VM updates was cut from 8 hours to just 2 hours, a 75% reduction in engineering effort and a major improvement in operational efficiency PRTG Monitoring Deployment Implemented PRTG monitoring across regional datacenters to proactively track Hosts, VMs, Cloud VMs, SNMPv3 network devices, and hosted websites. Configured alerting thresholds and dashboards, resulting in 99% uptime (excluding maintenance windows) and faster incident response Enterprise Backup & Recovery Deployed Veeam Backup & Replication with Single Sign‑On integration, enabling automated reporting and alerting of backup status. Ensured compliance with enterprise recovery objectives and strengthened business continuity planning