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Infolmage
Devops Engineer/Infrastructure Engineer
2023 - 2024 (1 year)
Transfering all VMs to IaC
Packer Golden images configuration
Dev support
Data backup and transfer
Linux administrator for all VMs
AllVoices Holding Co
DevOps Engineer
2022 - 2022
Maintained and upgraded the Kubernetes installation.
Upgraded all legacy working environments to recent versions.
Collaborated with other DevOps engineers to upgrade different parts of the Kubernetes infrastructure with Terraform.
Programmed a GitHub Actions Slack-release notifier.
Tatango, Inc.
DevOps Engineer
2018 - 2021 (3 years)
Provisioned, maintained, and improved the entire infrastructure to handle millions of requests.
Handled all staging and production deployments, including automating and ironing out bugs.
Collaborated with the CTO and DBA for any decision-making regarding scaling the infrastructure horizontally and vertically.
Increased the stability of the whole pipeline and set extra checking mechanisms at every point to reduce problems that reach production.
Helped with migration towards a Dockerized infrastructure to use Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS).
thredUP
DevOps and Infrastructure Engineer
2017 - 2017
Decoupled applications for cloud provisioning and deployment.
Migrated from Chef and Ansible to a standardized Terraform, Ansible, and Docker approach.
Monitored, alerted, and escalated the configurations and setup.
Integrated Digital Solutions, Inc.
DevOps Engineer
2017 - 2018 (1 year)
Worked with AT&T to offer new services.
Automated and provisioned new services with Terraform and Ansible.
Collaborated with the entire team to make sure all requirements are met.
CGI
Consultant
2016 - 2017 (1 year)
Provided DevOps work for the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Automated application deployments with Docker and Kubernetes.
Contributed to the planning of a city-wide Kubernetes deployment.
Ericsson
Software Engineer
2015 - 2016 (1 year)
Created an IPAM with an international team for Ericsson.
Provisioned IPS automatically from telecom nodes.
Used Puppet for provisioning several types of servers.
Created a Django and Django REST framework back end for multiple front ends.
Programmed one of the front ends with Twitter Bootstrap.
Ericsson
Test Configuration Manager
2012 - 2015 (3 years)
Managed developer-virtualized test nodes on HP blades with ESXi hypervisors.
Virtualized CUDB telecom node installation, including configuration and alteration to fit a smaller concise installation.
Improved and facilitated the jobs of testers by communicating non-stop and anticipating their needs.
Automated installations and configurations of different services.
Ludia
Build and System Administrator
2011 - 2012 (1 year)
Maintained Amazon Cloud Service (EC2, S3 , Route 53 , ELB, and more).
Maintained LDAP and mail servers and migrated the entire company to Gmail.
Packaged and distributed Python, Java, and Flash stacks.
Provided administration for MySQL, MongoDB, and Atlassian products.
Mate1, Inc.
Build Engineer
2010 - 2011 (1 year)
Overhauled the entire workflow process to make an easy transition from designers to developers, doing quality assurance and finally making it live.
Oversaw the entire build (38 modules) written in Ant but migrated to Maven with our own Nexus repository and plugged it into a CI server (Bamboo).
Handled mergers from the well-being of main branches to the maintenance of our Git and SVN repositories.
Managed the entire QA environment and its multiple chains.
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Happy at Work
Ongoing project focused on employee happiness.
Project has been paused due to increased importance of other projects.
The developer retains ownership and domain of the project.
StreamOps
A platform designed to assist mods with their duties.
Features include translation, cuss word detection, karma tracking, and collaboration tools.
Development is underway and planned for a release in early 2024.
Pomodori 24/7
Pomodori is a customizable Pomodoro timer designed for synchronization across a company.
It aims to sync 'pause' periods simultaneously for all users.
The project is currently in progress and is expected to be released in August 2023.
Education
Postgraduate Diploma in Bioinformatics
The University of Edinburgh
2006 - 2007 (1 year)
Master's Degree in Computer Science
American University of Science and Technology
2004 - 2006 (2 years)
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Lebanese American University
1999 - 2004 (5 years)