Experience
Professional Journey
Over 5 years of experience in DevOps and cloud infrastructure, specializing in Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native solutions across multiple platforms.
Work Experience
Senior DevOps Engineer
Full-timeRabbit
Cairo, Egypt
04/2024 - Present
Leading DevOps transformation and infrastructure optimization for enterprise applications.
Key Achievements
- Design and implement centralized CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions, enhancing deployment consistency, reliability, and operational efficiency
- Deploy and optimize Kubernetes autoscaling with Karpenter, improving cluster resource utilization and reducing compute costs
- Build and maintain a scalable data stack infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using Terraform, ensuring high availability and adherence to best practices
- Engineer robust, scalable deployment pipelines leveraging Helm, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and GitHub Actions to support fast, reliable application delivery
- Deploy and manage the EFK stack (Elasticsearch, Fluentbit, Kibana) to establish a centralized, scalable logging solution for real-time monitoring and analysis
- Integrate DataDog for advanced observability, setting up dashboards, alerts, and incident response workflows to monitor system health and application behavior
- Configure and utilize DataDog APM to monitor application performance, detect anomalies, and proactively alert on critical application errors and performance degradations
- Perform patch upgrades on Kubernetes control plane and worker nodes, maintaining version compatibility, improving cluster security, and ensuring system stability
- Administer and maintain RDS databases, including user management, permission tuning, schema creation, data backup, and replication setup to support data analytics workloads
- Led cloud cost optimization initiatives, achieving a 35% reduction in infrastructure costs through effective implementation of Kubecost, Horizontal Pod Autoscalers (HPA), and Vertical Pod Autoscalers (VPA)
GitHub ActionsKubernetesKarpenterGCPTerraformHelmDockerEFK StackDataDogRDSKubecost
Tech Ecosystem Consultant
ContractManara
CA, United States
10/2024 - 11/2024
Provided comprehensive insights into Egypt's tech ecosystem and facilitated strategic connections for platform growth.
Key Achievements
- Provided comprehensive insights into Egypt's tech ecosystem, identifying key players, emerging trends, and potential growth opportunities
- Facilitated introductions and established connections with influential figures, tech leaders, and organizations within the local tech community
- Scoped out and engaged with relevant influencers, acting as an ambassador to build strong relationships and secure collaborations that align with Manara's goals
- Assisted in strategizing and executing user acquisition campaigns, leveraging your network to drive platform growth
- Served as a trusted advisor, offering recommendations and insights to help shape Manara's approach to expanding its presence in the Egyptian tech market
Market ResearchNetwork BuildingStrategic PlanningUser AcquisitionEcosystem Analysis
DevOps Engineer
Part-timeCyberTalents
Cairo, Egypt
09/2023 - Present
Developed API using Flask, Python, MongoDB, and Redis for queuing, enabling challenge creation in the CyberTalents environment with a server-worker architecture.
Key Achievements
- Developed Helm charts for API v2 to manage deployment configurations
- Integrated CyberTalents products into a "one-shot" solution to launch a demo version of the product on-demand, including all infrastructure for single-tenant group pages
- Enhanced challenge creation automation using GitHub Actions for efficient resource usage and testing
- Migrated CyberTalents infrastructure, including Kubernetes clusters, from AWS (EKS) to Azure (AKS)
- Provisioned infrastructure resources using Terraform and Terragrunt, with automated management and deployment through Atlantis
- Implemented monitoring for Kubernetes clusters, including Application Performance Monitoring (APM) using New Relic
- Used Terraform to create and manage NewRelic alerts for application and infrastructure monitoring
- Automated daily reports to monitor the number of running containers and machines across client and production environments using AWS Lambda
FlaskPythonMongoDBRedisHelmGitHub ActionsAWSAzureTerraformTerragruntAtlantisNew RelicLambda
DevOps Engineer
Full-timeBuguard
Cairo, Egypt
01/2024 - 04/2024
Implemented Jenkins CI/CD Pipeline for automated deployment and continuous integration, leading the deployment of new releases and updates for APIs.
Key Achievements
- Enhanced AWS infrastructure by adding load balancers to improve the availability and reliability of production applications
- Utilized AWS Lambda functions to automate tasks and improve the efficiency of infrastructure management
- Conducted code analysis and quality checks using SonarQube to maintain code integrity and security
- Implemented real-time scanning to prevent the inclusion of sensitive data like API keys, passwords, and certificates in source code, enhancing security measures
- Collaborated with development teams to adhere to Gitflow methodology, ensuring efficient version control and collaboration
- Implemented and effectively utilized NewRelic for comprehensive application and infrastructure performance monitoring and optimization
- Integrated Sentry for Application Performance Monitoring (APM), providing real-time visibility into application performance and error tracking
- Troubleshoot application configuration issues in testing, staging, and UAT environments
JenkinsAWSLambdaSonarQubeGitflowNewRelicSentry
DevOps Engineer
Full-timeVodafone Intelligent Solutions (_VOIS)
Smart Village, Egypt
03/2019 - 03/2021
Responsible for the production and availability of millions of users in the German market of the MVA (Mein Vodafone App).
Key Achievements
- Maintaining the availability of the application on the Kubernetes cluster, which is hosted on AWS, for many applications like DXL DE
- Create dashboards and alarms for monitoring the application and the infrastructure on different monitoring tools: Grafana, AWS, Prometheus, and Kibana
- Deploy new releases of APIs on Jenkins
- Deploy the infrastructure changes on the Concourse pipeline by changing the Terraform templates
- Integrate with the developers and all teams to implement any required task
- Provide on-call support as and when required
- Solve day-to-day operational support issues
- Prioritizing and managing several open cases at one time based on agreed Service Levels
- Ensure that all incidents are solved within the agreed SLA
- Update the technical documentation and the team knowledge base
- Experienced in utilizing AWS and Azure for cloud infrastructure provisioning and deployment
- Actively involved in deploying infrastructure changes and updates, leveraging Terraform templates
- Integrated secret manager to securely manage application configuration and secrets across the team and infrastructure
KubernetesAWSGrafanaPrometheusKibanaJenkinsConcourseTerraformAzureSecret Manager
Companies I've Worked With
Rabbit
Manara
CyberTalents
Buguard
Vodafone Intelligent Solutions
Stackpak
eVision - Digital Systems
Indos
AXON Healthtech
Sabika