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).

Work Experience

- Springer Nature AG & Co. KGaA -

- Platform Engineer - Feb. 2022 - Aug. 2022 - Berlin, Germany -

Working as part of the Engineering Enablement team, that provides infrastructure, - internal tooling, docs, CloudFoundry platform, and Kubernetes clusters, - to help the development teams with their daily tasks.

Worked on internal (halfpipe) - 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 - alert-manager. - 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.

Sapera GmbH.

- Senior Developer/DevOps - Apr. 2018 - Nov. 2021 - Berlin, Germany -

- 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 - infographics portal[1]. -
- Maintained 99+% documentation coverage of the infographics portal[1]. API - and 90+% 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. -

- [1] A working version of the infographics portal was acquired by - Scrolly Telling GmbH and still worked on by them as seen at - Five-Times. -

LIQID GmbH.

- Senior Backend Developer - Mar. 2016 - Dec. 2017 - Berlin, Germany -

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 - CRM. -
Implemented and maintained the Invoicing system.
- Implemented the new authentication layer using - (RFC7519: JWT). -
Implemented the Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) for user/client login.
Integrated other services like DocuSign, PostIdent,...
Implemented day to day business/marketing/technical requirements.

PrioriData GmbH.

- Full Stack Developer - Jul. 2015 - Feb. 2016 - Berlin, Germany -

Was acquired by Airnow Data Ltd.

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). -

AskNative

- Backend Developer/DevOps - May. 2013 - Jul. 2015 - Remote, Egypt -

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 Pub/Sub pattern). -

Writing

The Publish/Subscribe Pattern on Rails

- A - - Toptal published blog post - - on implementing the Pub/Sub pattern in practice in Rails apps. -

Clean Code and the Art of Exception Handling

- A - - Toptal published blog post - - on different tactics and strategies for exception handling and how to employ them to write cleaner code. -

- Over The Wire Solutions -

- Solutions for some of the OTW wargames - documented in a README files format. -

- Hack The Box Solutions -

- Learning security analysis via documenting the solutions for some of the - HTB machines - in a README files format. -

Projects

- Conway's Game of Life -

- A mono-repo with different command line interface (CLI) implementations for the - Game of Life in multiple languages - (currently Ruby/Rust), with the automation for publishing updates to different package managers using a - git-ish workflow. -

- a14m.srht.site -

The source code, and deployment scripts for this website/CV.

Education

B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering

Arab Academy for Science and Technology

GPA 3.1/4.0 (B - Very Good)

- Alexandria, Egypt - Sep. 2005 - Jan. 2011 -