YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD CLOUD ENGINEER
JAVEDKHAN.
Senior Software Engineer - Platforms
Cloud and Platform Engineering professional with 8+ years of enterprise experience, independently building practical software and privacy-focused Android applications.
YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD CLOUD ENGINEER
JAVEDKHAN.
Senior Software Engineer - Platforms
Cloud and Platform Engineering professional with 8+ years of experience, independently building practical software and privacy-focused Android applications.
Practical software built with deliberate simplicity.
Javed Khan Labs is an independent technology and software development initiative founded by Javed Khan. Combining professional experience in cloud infrastructure and platform engineering with a passion for software development, it focuses on building practical digital products and applications that simplify everyday tasks.
No forced logins, zero surveillance SDKs, and local-first data architecture.
Built by a Senior Cloud Developer with 8+ years across OpenStack & OpenShift.
Javed Khan
Founder, Javed Khan Labs
Senior Software Engineer - Platforms
New Delhi, India
pennyBook Ledger
Modern, 100% offline personal finance, investment, budgeting, and Udhaar debt ledger for Android.
Core Product Philosophy
"Your money. Your records. Your privacy. Financial software shouldn't require surrendering your personal data to cloud servers or ad networks."
Operates with complete on-device data sovereignty. Zero mandatory sign-up, zero third-party ads, and zero cloud data leaks.
Data stays locked in an encrypted local Room SQLite database with Argon2id AES-256 backup support.
Track money lent or borrowed, manage bank EMIs, log repayments, and share WhatsApp reminder notes.
Dynamic monthly budgets with intelligent rollover, interactive donut charts, and drill-down sheets.
Export complete records to multi-sheet Microsoft Excel (.xlsx), professional PDF statements, or clean CSV.
pennyBook Ledger v1.0.1Native Android • Jetpack Compose • Material 3
Other Applications & Research
Qibla Direction Compass
Accurate, privacy-first Qibla compass for Android.
A native Android compass application that computes the exact great-circle bearing to the Kaaba with true-north declination correction.
Future Studio Experiments
Practical software utilities and productivity tools in R&D.
Upcoming experimental tools exploring local-first utilities, device management helpers, and privacy-centric data workflows.
Technical Expertise
Carrier-grade cloud virtualization, container runtimes, software-defined storage, and native mobile architecture.
Cloud Platforms
Enterprise private cloud environments, bare-metal datacenter infrastructure, and public cloud architectures.
Containers and Orchestration
Container platforms, multi-cluster fleet management, declarative GitOps workflows, and secure runtimes.
Infrastructure as Code and Automation
Declarative infrastructure automation, configuration management, GitOps, and continuous delivery pipelines.
Monitoring and Observability
Real-time infrastructure health, cluster telemetry, centralized logging, and proactive incident alerting.
Application Development
Independent native Android software development, offline-first SQLite architectures, and modern application engineering.
Professional Experience
Senior Software Engineer - PlatformsCurrent Role
Leading bare-metal Kubernetes infrastructure deployments across enterprise datacenters and architecting geo-redundant GitOps OpenShift clusters with centralized policy and security governance.
- Deploying and managing production Kubernetes clusters on enterprise bare-metal hardware across high-availability datacenters.
- Configuring remote out-of-band management, server telemetry, and automated hardware lifecycle maintenance.
- Collaborating with infrastructure and network operations teams on rack elevation, network topologies, storage provisioning, and cluster bring-up.
- Deploying, hardening, and verifying Kubernetes control planes and worker nodes optimized for high-throughput containerized workloads.
- Architecting geo-redundant GitOps deployments of Red Hat OpenShift using ArgoCD, multi-cluster management, and automated zero-touch provisioning.
- Engineering active/passive cluster topologies across disparate geographic regions with centralized Git repository synchronization for rapid disaster-recovery failover.
System Integration Advisor
Delivered cloud container platform advisory, cluster lifecycle operations, and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for enterprise banking environments.
- Managed OpenShift container platform ecosystems, overseeing cluster installation, version upgrades, security patching, and health diagnostics.
- Administered Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (RHACM) for unified governance and policy compliance across multi-cluster environments.
- Implemented enterprise cluster monitoring and automated alerting pipelines.
Senior Cloud Developer
Spearheaded OpenShift cluster management and telecommunications cloud infrastructure deployment across OpenStack, bare-metal, and AWS cloud environments.
- Managed Red Hat OpenShift clusters across production and staging environments.
- Deployed enterprise container services (Kubernetes and Podman) on OpenStack, AWS, and bare-metal infrastructure.
- Executed end-to-end deployment of OpenStack cloud platforms, including Ceph storage pools and system health monitoring per architectural designs.
- Automated cloud infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and Ansible with custom operational workflows.
- Configured security hardening and performed rigorous acceptance testing procedures for carrier-grade platform stability.
- Integrated cloud platforms with centralized network operations and Grafana observability dashboards.
Verified Certifications
Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator
Validates enterprise capability to deploy, configure, manage, and troubleshoot Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform clusters across hybrid enterprise environments.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2023 Certified Foundations Associate
Validates foundational knowledge of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services, core architecture, identity and access management, networking, and cloud security.
Nokia Container Service Integration Engineer Level 3
Advanced engineering certification validating expertise in container service integration, Kubernetes architecture for telecommunications infrastructure, and carrier-grade platform reliability.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Historical foundational certification demonstrating proficiency in designing high-availability, fault-tolerant, and secure multi-tier distributed architectures on AWS.
GitHub Foundations Certification
Validates core collaboration, repository management, GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows, Git branching strategies, and project security practices.
Jira Fundamentals Badge
Demonstrates proficiency in agile project tracking, scrum and kanban workflows, issue lifecycle configuration, and sprint management.
Connect with Javed Khan
Inquiries regarding software products, cloud engineering, or developer collaboration.
Let's discuss technology, architecture, or software products.
Whether you want to explore collaboration, share feedback on pennyBook Ledger, or consult on telco cloud & Kubernetes infrastructure, feel free to reach out directly.
javedakhan2010@gmail.com
javed.apps.support@gmail.com
Verified Professional Networks
Connect across public engineering platforms and developer communities.
Location & Timezone
New Delhi, India (IST, UTC+5:30)