Muhammad Hassaan Javed

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Reducing your cloud bill, therapy bill, & blood pressure all at once!

Lahore, PakistanJoined May 2026

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Founder @ infraforge.agency Cloud & DevOps engineer focused on infrastructure recovery, Terraform/IaC debt, Kubernetes stabilization, CI/CD reliability, and cloud migration recovery for SaaS teams.

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helping saas teams understand their infrasructure. What is broken, what is risky, and what needs to be stabilized first.

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MHMuhammad Hassaan Javedblog.infraforge.agencyJun 17 · 12 min read

When a hardening rollout breaks 8 layers and your own reconciler fights you

The first thing the on-call team tried was patching the status ConfigMap. Five apps showed Progressing in the platform's bleater-status object, the dashboard had been red for four hours, and somebody

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MHMuhammad Hassaan Javedblog.infraforge.agencyJun 16 · 11 min read

When a validating webhook blocks the ConfigMap that would fix it

The kubectl patch came back as a webhook timeout, not a credentials error. That was the moment the incident stopped being about a rotated MongoDB password and started being about the admission layer.

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MHMuhammad Hassaan Javedblog.infraforge.agencyJun 2 · 10 min read

ArgoCD CVE-2022-24348: a Secret leak that hid in log volume

The first thing we saw in Loki was a fanout service log line that contained the string 'a2V5Y2xvYWstY2xpZW50' repeated about 40 times in a single minute. Base64 decode: 'keycloak-client'. The fanout s

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MHMuhammad Hassaan Javedblog.infraforge.agencyJun 1 · 10 min read

Why Grafana OnCall acknowledgments hang after a Helm upgrade migration

The call did not come from our on-call rotation. It came from a customer who noticed two unrelated degradations on their side and asked why we had not paged. We had not paged because Grafana OnCall ha

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MHMuhammad Hassaan Javedblog.infraforge.agencyMay 30 · 9 min read

Why a deleted backup Lambda kept billing 9,400 EBS snapshots

The EBS Snapshot line on the monthly bill was $1,830. There was no active EBS snapshot policy on the account. The backup Lambda that had produced these snapshots had been deleted thirteen months earli

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When a hardening rollout breaks 8 layers and your own reconciler fights you

When a validating webhook blocks the ConfigMap that would fix it

ArgoCD CVE-2022-24348: a Secret leak that hid in log volume

Why Grafana OnCall acknowledgments hang after a Helm upgrade migration

Why a deleted backup Lambda kept billing 9,400 EBS snapshots

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Muhammad Hassaan Javed's blogs

Recently published

When a hardening rollout breaks 8 layers and your own reconciler fights you

When a validating webhook blocks the ConfigMap that would fix it

ArgoCD CVE-2022-24348: a Secret leak that hid in log volume

Why Grafana OnCall acknowledgments hang after a Helm upgrade migration

Why a deleted backup Lambda kept billing 9,400 EBS snapshots