Ahmed AbouZaid أحمد أبوزيد

** Not looking for a new job ** (Sorry, but If you sent me a job vacancy, then you send messages randomly!) Looking for DevOps advice? Get in touch: https://aabouzaid.com/#contact ⭐ Overview ⭐ With 16+ years of open-source contribution, 12+ years of professional hands-on experience in DevOps, and an M.Sc. in Data Engineering from Edinburgh Napier University (UK), I enjoy facilitating the growth of both businesses and individuals. I specialize in Cloud-Native and Kubernetes. I'm also a Free/Open source advocate and book author. My favorite topics are DevOps transformation, automation, data, and metrics. Find me also at: https://tech.aabouzaid.com https://tech.aabouzaid.com/talks https://github.com/aabouzaid ⭐ Skill set ⭐ • Containers: (Docker, Kubernetes ecosystem, Kustomize, Helm, Conftest). • Automation/IaC: (Terraform, Ansible, SaltStack, Gradle, Kitchen.ci, Molecule, Make). • Code: (Python, Golang, Groovy, Bash, PyTorch, Jupyter Notebook). • CI/CD: (GitOps, Blue-Green, Canary, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, GitLab). • Monitoring/Logging: (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, TICK/InfluxDB Stack). • Distributed systems: (Vault, Consul, Apache ZooKeeper, Kafka, Flink and Hadoop basics). • Cloud/virtualization: (AWS, GCP, OpenStack basics, KVM, Xen, Proxmox). • RDBs/NoSQL: (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Apache Cassandra, Redis, MongoDB). • Security: (OPA, TFSec, Trivy, KubeSec, DDoS protection and mitigation). • Process: (Roadmap, OKR, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, JIRA, Confluence). • Misc: (CDN, Cloudflare, Velero, Keycloak, Netbox, GlusterFS). ⭐ Misc activities ⭐ • Regularly I write posts on my lite tech blog: https://tech.aabouzaid.com. • Free/Open Source contributor and conducting public sessions about Free/Open source software. • Author of 2 tech books under Creative Commons (Open Content License). • Founder of LibreBooks.org project, which aims to help to create more open content books. • Working with civil society organizations to fight poverty with education since 2006. Note: The detailed projects are in the PDF resume.