Md Sarowar Alam is a seasoned DevOps leader and mentor with more than 15 years of hands-on experience in automation, cloud infrastructure, and software development. As the Lead DevOps Engineer at Hogarth Worlwide, Sarowar has designed, implemented, and scaled mission-critical infrastructure solutions that power global enterprise applications. His career spans diverse domains—ranging from virtualization and cloud automation to enterprise application development—making him the perfect instructor for learners who want to master DevOps not just from theory, but from real-world, production-grade expertise.

Professional Experience

Lead DevOps Engineer - Hogarth Worlwide
Sarowar has led large-scale automation and infrastructure projects that transformed operational efficiency and reduced manual overhead for enterprise environments. His work includes:

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and Jenkins to fully automate ECS deployments, EC2 provisioning, and AMI management.
CI/CD Pipeline Engineering with Jenkins, Ansible, Groovy, PowerShell, and Python, streamlining deployments and backups across multi-environment systems.
AWS Cloud Architecture—designing scalable ECS setups, CloudFront access controls, private VPC networks, and Redshift clusters.
Monitoring & Automation—migrating and enhancing Zabbix for dynamic health checks, automated alerts, and system-wide monitoring integration.
Disaster Recovery & Backup—implementing automated DB backup, restore pipelines, and AMI cross-region strategies to ensure reliability.

Beyond automation, he has mentored DevOps teams, introduced error-proof scripting practices, and ensured security compliance across cloud and virtualization environments.

Senior Executive – MIS, Navana Real Estate & Construction Ltd
Earlier in his career, Sarowar designed and deployed enterprise-grade applications for finance, HR, and operations. He built payroll, inventory, procurement, and multi-bank management systems using VB6, ASP.NET, and SQL Server. Alongside software, he architected a LAN infrastructure serving 85+ endpoints with Active Directory, Squid-based bandwidth control, and enterprise-grade IT security. This foundation in enterprise system development gave him deep insights into lifecycle management and end-to-end system architecture, which continue to strengthen his DevOps practices today.

Skills & Technologies

Cloud & Virtualization: AWS (EC2, ECS, S3, RDS, Lambda, Redshift, CloudFront), VMware vSphere
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, Ansible
CI/CD Automation: Jenkins (Groovy scripting), GitHub Actions
Scripting & Programming: Python, PowerShell, Shell, ASP.NET, VB6
Monitoring & Logging: Zabbix, AWS CloudWatch
Databases: MS SQL Server, MongoDB, MySQL
Networking & Security: VPN, VPC, IAM, Route 53, Active Directory (GPO, ADFS, LDAP)
Backup & Recovery: mysqldump, Symantec Backup Exec, vRanger Pro

Sarowar Alam brings the perfect combination of technical depth and educator’s empathy. Having solved thousands of real-world DevOps challenges—ranging from scaling AWS systems to automating enterprise pipelines—he translates complex concepts into hands-on, practical learning experiences. His students gain not just knowledge of AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, and automation, but the confidence to apply them in real production systems.