Adnan Alshar — Platform Engineer & Cloud Consultant

Available for consulting

Hello! I'm Adnan Alshar

Platform Engineer & Cloud Consultant based in Utrecht, Netherlands.

Experienced, highly accomplished and results-driven engineer with 11+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). Proven ability to lead complex projects, build high-performing teams, and drive improvements in software delivery, infrastructure scalability, and system reliability. Expert in AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, IaC, CI/CD, and Observability. Passionate about enabling developer productivity and driving organizational transformation through DevOps principles and platform engineering practices.

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11+ Years Experience

7 Roles

10 Certifications

3 Open Source Projects

WORKING EXPERIENCE

Career Journey

Xebia

3 yrs

Spearheaded the platform engineering initiative, sharing knowledge on tools and best practices across the organisation
Provided consultancy and hands-on support to client teams in implementing and optimizing Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines and continuous monitoring solutions

Leading the delivery team in provisioning a secure, compliant, and scalable landing zone on Google Cloud
Leading the delivery team in provisioning a cloud-native, secure, and scalable data platform on Google Cloud
Assisting the delivery team in provisioning all infrastructure using IaC (Terraform) and CI/CD

Managing the project timeline and plan while ensuring stakeholder expectations are met
Assisting the team in delivering a Data Lake on Google Cloud

Leading the Cloud Delivery team in consolidating existing service packages, creating new service packages, and collaborating with the Sales and Pre-sales teams to share knowledge, assist in client calls, and sales enablement
Assisting the Cloud Delivery team on project delivery, through creating toolkits ensuring standardised and consistent client experience
Leading the effort to achieve the Google Cloud Infrastructure Specialistion, cementing CNTXT’s position in the market, and unlocking a new avenue of funding from Google

Defined and calibrated assessment scope and SRE goals based on stakeholder objectives, existing documentation, and system data, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities
Conducted 360-degree SRE assessments with application and DevOps teams, engaging with 9 stakeholders across 3 teams to evaluate architecture, toolchains, and development processes
Developed SRE improvement plans and high-level roadmaps for SRE transformation, providing strategic guidance to improve system reliability, performance, and operational efficiency

Reviewed and evaluated proposals for HUSTEF's 15th edition, a top-three European software quality and testing conference, ensuring the selection of high-quality content
Contributed to the conference's program by providing expert feedback on submissions related to software quality and testing

Advised DAS on the adoption of DevOps best practices and monitoring strategies, leveraging DORA metrics to provide actionable insights into software delivery performance. This resulted in improved engineering team visibility and enabled data-driven decision-making

Led assessments of code quality, maintainability, and development processes for a key client, identifying critical bottlenecks and recommending improvements that increased development velocity by 25%
Developed a cloud readiness plan for migrating to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and supporting global users, including a cost optimization strategy projected to save 15% in infrastructure expenses

Architected and delivered a production-ready self-service observability platform based on the Grafana stack (Grafana, Loki, Mimir, and Tempo) on Amazon Web Services (AWS) within 2 months, enabling proactive monitoring and reducing incident resolution time by 50%
Designed and implemented self-service workflows for dashboards and alerts, lowering the barrier to entry for developers and achieving successful onboarding of 10 development teams within 3 months

Dustin

11 mos

Led the initiative to introduce Platform Engineering principles, creating and implementing Proof of Concepts (PoCs) that standardized the creation and maintenance of new applications, resulting in a 30% reduction in application deployment time
Provided guidance on Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure best practices for applications hosted on Kubernetes and serverless architectures, optimizing resource utilization and reducing cloud costs by 20%
Onboarded 15+ new applications to Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines using GitLab CI and ArgoCD, automating deployments and improving release reliability

AppyThings

9 mos

Automated infrastructure provisioning for the API management platform (Apigee) using Terraform, reducing time to market for new APIs by 40% and freeing up 50 engineering hours per month
Designed and implemented Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines for API proxies, standardizing build, test, deploy, and versioning stages, and improving deployment frequency by 3x

Bank al Etihad

2 yrs 2 mos

Led the onboarding of multiple new applications to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and on-premises infrastructure, streamlining deployments and improving scalability
Implemented Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform for Amazon Web Services (AWS), automating infrastructure provisioning and reducing deployment time by 60%, while ensuring standardization and increasing deployment velocity
Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, achieving 100% automation of application deployments from development to production
Enhanced monitoring, logging, and alerting capabilities using New Relic and ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), enabling proactive issue detection and reducing mean time to identification (MTTI) by 40%

POSRocket

1 yr

Led the deployment of a new production environment with a highly available, fault-tolerant, microservices-based infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS) within the first two months, utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (AWS CloudFormation) for automation
Automated production deployments using Jenkins, reducing time to production by 50% and improving release cadence
Implemented logging and monitoring with the ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) and AWS CloudWatch, providing developers with actionable insights and reducing issue diagnosis time by 60%

Arab Bank

1 yr 3 mos

Led the implementation of a CI/CD pipeline for the mobile application using Jenkins, Git, and Artifactory, reducing deployment frequency from monthly to weekly and decreasing release cycle time by 75%
Designed and delivered DevOps training to a team of 10 engineers, increasing their CI/CD proficiency by 50% and establishing DevOps best practices across the development lifecycle
Architected and presented a Proof of Concept (PoC) for Apigee, securing buy-in for its full implementation and enabling centralized API management for 5+ applications
Spearheaded the adoption of AppDynamics as the bank's primary observability solution, providing real-time application performance monitoring and reducing mean time to identify (MTTI) application issues by 30%

Diyar United Company

6 mos

Led a large-scale migration of 8,000 users across 10+ countries from MS Office to Office 365 for Alshaya, achieving a 95% user adoption rate and minimizing disruption to business operations by implementing a phased rollout plan
Managed a 6-member on-call support team, reducing average incident resolution time by 20% and maintaining 99.9% system stability through proactive monitoring and rapid response to critical issues

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