Ahmed is a high-performing Cloud Architect and DevOps Engineer with 14+ years of solid experience in software architecture, design, and development. He has in-depth experience in building development frameworks and team leading, being well-versed in AWS Cloud Solution Architecture, Micro Services, Azure DevOps, SOA NodeJS, C#, JavaScript, and Linux.
Delivers CI/CD as part of an agile team in improving performance by automating and streamlining operations and processes.
Helps build and improve infrastructure, application and performance development and ensures tight security including data encryption, security groups, and environment scanning.
Ensures high-quality deliverables and implements DevOps and security best practices in fast-paced environments.
Acted as a DevOps expert at stc to apply the best practices for DevOps on 300+ already running applications.
Installed OpenShift clusters for developer and production environments. Worked on setting up and supporting developers with the best tools and processes.
Implemented multiple Jenkins pipelines for different applications (Java, Nodejs, Angular), with the source from BitBucket. Implemented a robust and efficient Cloud Strategy design aligned with business objectives.
Designed and implemented the infrastructure for the different environments on Azure.
Worked on implementing the infrastructure as a code using AzureArm templates and Azure CLI. Used the Azure DevOps Pipelines for infrastructure and the application.
Applied the best practices for all Azure resources. Implemented vnet subnets separation to isolate private resources and expose only the needed resources for public access.
Acted as a Cloud Software Architect and SaaS Ops, building and maintaining the central monitoring stack for the company.
Used Zabbix, NewRelic, Prometheus, Grafana, and PagerDuty to implement monitoring for 40+ products.
Solved high-value use cases by leveraging current SaaS products and technical skills.
Handled all technical aspects of Cequens Cloud Messaging Platform, manager for the engineering team that develop and maintain Cequens Cloud Messaging Platform on AWS.
Utilized multiple tools including EC2, S3, ELB, EBS, SNS, SQC, Lambda, API Gateway, BeansTalk, OpsWorks, Code Pipeline, VPC, Auto Scaling, RedShift, CLI.
Used used OpsWork, Beanstalk, CodeCommit, CodePipeline, and CloudFormation to automate the deployment of some components of the gateway.
Worked as a Senior Developer for the Investment KFH project, an integrated multi-user Investment Management System for administration all financial investment products, investment transactions, corporate events, and portfolio management.
Used Microsoft VisualStudio 2005 and C# for software development, and Microsoft SQL Server for database.
Joined the digital transformation project for the Saudi Telecom Company as a DevOps Expert/ Solution Architect. My primary role at the beginning was working with our vendors to get our CI/CD stack and the Container platform up and running based on STC's requirements. Supported, maintained, and administrated our DevOps stack components that consist of OpenShift, Jenkins, Nexus, Sonarqube, and ElasticSearch. Assisted the dev teams in joining this stack by providing training and guidelines. Created the needed pipelines to apply the Gitflow for some applications.
CleanSlate is a national medical group providing integrated treatment for the chronic disease of addiction. Designed and implemented the infrastructure for the different environments on Azure. Implemented the infrastructure as a code using AzureArm templates and Azure CLI. Used the Azure DevOps Pipelines for infrastructure and the application, and applied the best practices for all Azure resources.
SMS API provides instant, worldwide message delivery. Connect through global carriers and send unlimited texts to anyone in the world using our dedicated interface or scalable APIs. I was part of a team that was responsible for implementing and maintaining Cequens’s messaging gateway. I used MicrosoftVisual Studio 2013, Visual Studio Code, C#, and Node.js for software development, Redis for caching, and ActiveMQ as a queue server. I also worked as L3 support for any issues reported by the support team. I also acted as a DevOps engineer, using OpsWork, Beanstalk, CodeCommit, CodePipeline, and CloudFormation to automate the deployment of some components of the gateway
