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+Meta:
+  Name: Ahmed AbdelHalim
+  Title: Platform Engineer · DevOps
+  Location: Berlin, Germany
+  Phone: +49 177 912 6386
+  Email: [email protected]
+  Srht: https://git.sr.ht/~a14m
+  Github: https://github.com/a14m
+  StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/users/1769515/a14m
+  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/a14m
+
+Summary:
+  Platform engineer with 10+ years of experience in software development
+  (backend/API focused), 5+ years in infrastructure automation and DevOps,
+  hobbyist security analyst and tester. An avid fan of automation,
+  sustainability, design patterns, and clean code. Always interested in deriving
+  a better problem-solving method for challenging tasks, and learning sensible
+  new technologies and tools (when the need arises).
+
+Skills:
+  - DevOps:
+      Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, Ansible, CloudFoundry, Helm, Fastly,
+      Vault, Concourse, Artifactory, ...
+  - Telemetry:
+      Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, ELK, Sentry, Tempo.
+  - Coding:
+      Go, Ruby, Python, Bash, Rust.
+  - Paradigms:
+      Design Patterns, Test Driven Development (TDD),
+      Behavior Driven Development (BDD),
+      Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD), Infrastructure as Code (IaC),
+      Configuration as Code, RESTful APIs, Micro-Services.
+  - Tools:
+      vim, git, tmux, ssh, bash, kubectl, kubevela, ansible, helmfile, vagrant,
+      docker, certbot, dig, bosh, vault, nc, nmap, curl, ffuf, gobuster, sqlmap,
+      xxd, searchsploit, meta-sploit, commix, gdb, ltrace, ...
+  - Platforms:
+      Amazon Web Services (AWS), DigitalOcean,
+      Heroku, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Linux.
+  - Languages:
+      English (Professional), German (Basic), Arabic (Native).
+
+Education:
+  Degree: B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering
+  University: Arab Academy for Science and Technology
+  GPA: GPA 3.1/4.0 (B - Very Good)
+  Duration: Sep. 2005 - Jan. 2011
+  Location: Alexandria, Egypt
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+Projects:
+  - title: <a href="https://git.sr.ht/~a14m/game-of-life"> Conway's Game of Life </a>
+    content:
+      A mono-repo with different command line interface (<abbr>CLI</abbr>) implementations for the
+      <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life">Game of Life</a> in multiple languages
+      (currently Ruby/Rust), with the automation for publishing updates to
+      different package managers using a git-ish workflow.
+
+  - title: <a href="https://git.sr.ht/~a14m/a14m.srht.site"> a14m.srht.site </a>
+    content:
+      The source code, and deployment scripts for this website/CV/blog.
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+Work:
+  - Company: <a href="https://group.springernature.com/gp/group">Springer Nature AG & Co. KGaA</a>
+    Title: Platform Engineer
+    Duration: Feb. 2022 - Aug. 2022
+    Location: Berlin, Germany
+    Note:
+      Working as part of the <b>Engineering Enablement</b> team, who provides infrastructure, internal tooling, docs,
+      CloudFoundry platform, and Kubernetes clusters, to help the development teams with their daily tasks.
+    Tasks:
+      - Worked on internal <a href="https://github.com/springernature/halfpipe">(halfpipe)</a>
+        tooling for building CI/CD pipelines on Github actions and Concourse.
+      - Implemented reusable GitHub Actions workflows for deploying to CloudFoundry, Kubernetes, and Docker Registries.
+      - Implemented tooling to show and report Kubernetes deployment status (from CI/CD) to respective teams,
+        and notify them on failure.
+      - Implemented alert-routing service, to integrate with Prometheus
+        <a href="https://prometheus.io/docs/alerting/latest/alertmanager/">alert-manager</a>.
+        And sends alerts to different teams/projects, and preconfigured Slack channels or emails.
+      - Maintained team docs used by other development teams, to integrate with and use internal platforms.
+      - Maintained terraform-provisioned infrastructure of different parts of the platforms.
+
+  - Company: <a href="https://sapera.com/">Sapera GmbH.</a>
+    Title: Senior Developer/DevOps
+    Duration: Apr. 2018 - Nov. 2021
+    Location: Berlin, Germany
+    Tasks:
+      - Implemented infrastructure as code (IaC) for different projects using Terraform and Ansible.
+      - Standardized the deployment process (and maintained the process documentation).
+      - Built templates to provision infrastructure on different cloud providers and development stages.
+      - Built standardized workflows using CircleCI to automate deployments (for internal and external projects).
+      - Implemented and maintained the (Rails 5) JSON API serving our <a href="#note1"> infographics portal[1]</a>.
+      - Maintained 99+&percnt; documentation coverage of the <a href="#note1"> infographics portal[1]</a>. API
+        and 90+&percnt; test coverage.
+      - Worked with Docker to provide deliverables for some of our external projects.
+      - Provided support and tutoring to work with our standard deployment workflows (internally and externally).
+      - Worked closely with our Systems Engineer to support with various DevOps tasks.
+      - Rewrote, maintained and provisioned some of the data pipelines to adhere to a better security standards.
+    FootNote:
+      <a id="note1" href="#note1">[1]</a> A working version of the infographics portal was acquired by
+      <a href="https://scrollytelling.net/"> Scrolly Telling GmbH</a> and still worked on by them as seen at
+      <a href="https://five-times.com/"> Five-Times</a>.
+
+  - Company: <a href="https://liqid.de/">LIQID GmbH.</a>
+    Title: Senior Backend Developer
+    Duration: Mar. 2016 - Dec. 2017
+    Location: Berlin, Germany
+    Tasks:
+      - Maintained the RESTful API (used by admins and front-end).
+      - Implemented and maintained the integration with Deutsche Bank.
+      - Implemented and maintained the integration with Intercom
+        <abbr title="Customer Relationship Management">CRM.</abbr>
+      - Implemented and maintained the Invoicing system.
+      - Implemented the new authentication layer using
+        <a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7519">(RFC7519&colon; JWT)</a>.
+      - Implemented the Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) for user/client login.
+      - Integrated other services like DocuSign, PostIdent,...
+      - Implemented day to day business/marketing/technical requirements.
+
+  - Company: PrioriData GmbH.
+    Title: Full Stack Developer
+    Duration: Jul. 2015 - Feb. 2016
+    Location: Berlin, Germany
+    Note: Was acquired by <a href="https://airnow.com/">Airnow Data Ltd.</a>
+    Tasks:
+      - Maintained the Rails web (dashboard) app.
+      - Optimized the scraping process of getting the data from Apple and GooglePlay stores.
+      - Reimplemented the queueing and monitoring around the scrapers.
+      - Migrated acquired data from different resources to Google BigQuery.
+      - Maintained and provisioned different purpose VM instances on Google Cloud Platform (using chef).
+      - Reimplemented the “Extract” step in the ETL process (using an API based crawler instead of phantomJS browser).
+
+  - Company: AskNative
+    Title: Backend Developer/DevOps
+    Duration: May. 2013 - Jul. 2015
+    Location: Remote, Egypt
+    Tasks:
+      - Implemented the test suite for the API.
+      - Implemented events booking feature via Stripe.
+      - Reimplemented caching for better response times.
+      - Maintained the Heroku stacks for staging/production.
+      - Reimplemented large portions of the API to follow better design patterns
+        (Hexagonal Architecture, and <abbr title="Publish-Subscribe">Pub/Sub</abbr> pattern).
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+Writing:
+  - title: The Publish/Subscribe Pattern on Rails
+    content:
+      A
+      <a href="https://www.toptal.com/ruby-on-rails/the-publish-subscribe-pattern-on-rails">
+        Toptal published blog post
+      </a>
+      on implementing the <abbr title="Publish-Subscribe">Pub/Sub</abbr>
+      pattern in practice in Rails apps.
+
+  - title: Clean Code and the Art of Exception Handling
+    content:
+      A
+      <a href="https://www.toptal.com/abap/clean-code-and-the-art-of-exception-handling">
+        Toptal published blog post
+      </a>
+      on different tactics and strategies for exception handling
+      and how to employ them to write cleaner code.
+
+  - title: <a href="https://git.sr.ht/~a14m/OTW"> Over The Wire Solutions </a>
+    content:
+      Solutions for some of the <a href="https://overthewire.org/wargames/">OTW wargames</a>
+      documented in a README files format.
+
+  - title: <a href="https://git.sr.ht/~a14m/HTB"> Hack The Box Solutions </a>
+    content:
+      Learning security analysis via documenting the solutions for some of the
+      <a href="https://hackthebox.eu">HTB machines</a>
+      in a README files format.