Shahe Islam · Director & platform engineer

Cloud platforms built to specification. Proven in production.

Senior AWS, Kubernetes and reliability engineering for UK organisations. One engineer from first decision to final handover.

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Independent consultancy · Birmingham, United Kingdom

Shahe Islam, director and platform engineer at Shahe Solutions
Shahe Islam Director · 10× AWS Certified
70%CI cost reduction 99.99%backup success 90%fewer support tickets 85%lab compute saved

Services

Four disciplines. One engineer of record.

Fixed-scope engagements or retained advisory. Every line of infrastructure is written as code, reviewed in the open, and handed over documented.

  1. 01

    Cloud Modernisation & Migration

    Monolith to containers without the drama. Legacy estates moved onto Docker, ECS or EKS with pipelines that make deployments boring — and rollbacks instant.

    Docker · ECS · GitLab CI/CD · GitHub Actions · zero-downtime cutover

  2. 02

    AWS Foundations & Landing Zones

    Multi-account AWS organisations built in OpenTofu: Identity Center, security baselines, budgets and guardrails from day one. The foundation your auditors ask about — already in writing.

    OpenTofu / Terraform · IAM Identity Center · security baselines · eu-west-2

  3. 03

    Kubernetes Platform Engineering

    Enterprise-grade EKS and AKS: policy enforcement with OPA, cost-aware autoscaling with Karpenter, and self-serve workflows that cut platform tickets in half.

    EKS · AKS · OPA / Gatekeeper · Karpenter · Helm · developer self-service

  4. 04

    Observability & Reliability

    Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Mimir and Tempo — sized from load tests, not guesswork. Alerts that page the right person, and SLOs signed like contracts.

    Prometheus · Grafana stack · Elasticsearch · PagerDuty · SLOs · on-call design

Track record

Delivered inside institutions that measure everything.

  • HMRC

    EKS as a platform for the UK's tax authority: multi-tenant compliance with OPA & Conftest, PCI-hardened images, release automation.

    −70% runner costs
    release notes 4h → 15s

  • Nationwide

    Enterprise Kubernetes and the observability platform behind 40+ teams: Loki, Mimir & Tempo, KEDA autoscaling, self-serve dashboards.

    −90% dashboard tickets
    −85% lab compute

  • ITV

    Vended Prometheus/Thanos observability for ITVX: long-term metrics on object storage, custom exporters unifying AWS telemetry.

    one pane of glass
    platform-wide

  • Our Future Health

    Azure landing-zone IaC for the UK's largest health research programme: GitOps provisioning, enterprise backup, DR rehearsals with point-in-time recovery.

    99.99% backup success
    50+ identities governed

  • Dept for Education

    Platform engineering for national digital services: Kubernetes operations, Azure DevOps delivery, observability.

    gov-scale reliability

  • UK Manufacturing GroupIn delivery

    AWS landing zone in OpenTofu, ECS container platform, TimescaleDB private networking — a twenty-year monolith becoming a fleet.

    landing zone → live

Engagements delivered as senior / lead engineer, employed or contracted. References available on request.

Credentials

10× AWS Certified every professional & specialty certification

Architecture, DevOps, security, networking, data and machine learning — certified at the highest level AWS issues, and applied in production for eight years.

  • Kubernetes — KCNA & KCSA Cloud Native & Security Associate
  • HashiCorp Terraform Associate Infrastructure as Code
  • MEng Systems Engineering University of Warwick · 2013–2017

Certification IDs verified on request.

The engineer

No agency markup. No handovers.

Shahe Solutions is the consulting practice of Shahe Islam: eight years of platform and reliability engineering inside HMRC, Nationwide, ITV and Our Future Health — now available to businesses that need enterprise-grade infrastructure without enterprise-agency overhead.

One senior engineer, deliberately few concurrent engagements. The person who scopes your platform is the person who builds it, documents it, and answers the phone afterwards.

Shahe Islam — Director

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