Platform Consultant | Hilversum, Netherlands | 05/2023 - Present

• Solve clients complex issues by providing highly-performant, self-service platforms providing standardisation and simplicity.

Review Board Member | Remote | 01/2025 - Present

• Review proposals for HUSTEFs 15th edition, taking place in Budapest, Hungary. The conference revolves around software quality and software testing and is one of the top three conferences in Europe in this domain.

Platform Consultant and Assessor (via Xebia) | Hilversum, Netherlands | 11/2024 - 01/2025

• Leading the assessment in code quality, maintainability and development processes areas. In this assessment, the focus is on diving deep on the current state of code, CI/CD, deployments, monitoring, and quality. Also, responsible for creating a cloud readiness plan to migrate to GCP and support global users.

Observability Platform Tech Lead (via Xebia) | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 05/2023 - 12/2023

• Provided a production-ready self-service observability platform running the Grafana stack (Grafana, Loki, Mimir, and Tempo) on AWS within the first two months.
• Enhanced the platform with multiple self-service workflows to create dashboards and alerts lowering the barrier of entry for developers.
• Achieved a seamless onboarding experience to the platform resulting in 10 development teams onboarded by the end of the engagement.

Senior DevOps Engineer | Amstelveen, Netherlands | 06/2022 - 04/2023

• Onboarded new applications to our CI/CD pipelines running on GitLab and ArgoCD.
• Responsible for introducing Platform Engineering to the organisation by creating PoCs aiming to standardise the creation of new applications and maintaining them during their lifecycle.
• Provided insights regarding AWS infrastructure for applications hosted on Kubernetes or Serverless applications.

API/DevOps Engineer | Ede, Netherlands | 09/2021 - 05/2022

• Responsible for provisioning infrastructure using IaC (Terraform) for the API management platform greatly reducing time to market.
• Assisted with creating CI/CD pipelines for API proxies standardising the build, test, deploy, and versioning stages.

Senior DevOps Engineer | Amman, Jordan | 07/2019 - 08/2021

• Onboarded multiple new applications to the existing AWS and on-premises infrastructure.
• Implemented IaC using Terraform for AWS reducing infrastructure provisioning greatly, while maintaining standardisation and velocity.
• Created CI/CD piplines on Jenkins for deploying applications from development to production achieving a full coverage of applications being deployed by Jenkins.
• Assisted with improving monitoring, logging and alerting using New Relic and ELK while participating in on-call rotations for mission critical systems.

DevOps Engineer | Amman, Jordan | 07/2018 - 07/2019

• Deployed a brand-new production environment, microservices-based infrastructure, which was highly-available, fault-tolerant on AWS within the first two months. This was done in an automated fashion using IaC (AWS CloudFormation).
• Assisted in production deployments and onboarding all remaining manual deployments to Jenkins automated deployments reducing time to production by 50%.
• Achieved logging and monitoring of the microservices by leveraging ELK stack and AWS CloudWatch allowing developers to diagnose issues much faster.

Senior Development Specialist | Amman, Jordan | 04/2017 - 06/2018

• Implemented CI/CD for the mobile application running Jenkins, Git and Artifactory reducing deployment times from months to once a week.
• Provided high-quality DevOps introductory training sessions for the CI/CD team consisting of 10 team members from different functions.
• Attended blueprinting sessions with Apigee and delivered a PoC that was presented to the top-level management resulting in a full implementation of Apigee.
• Assisted in delivering AppDynamics workshops and implementing APM for Digital Banking components. This resulted in the adoption of AppDynamics as the main observability solution within the bank.

Systems Engineer | Kuwait City, Kuwait | 10/2016 - 03/2017

• Migrated 8,000 users in more than 10 different countries from MS Office to Office 365 for the multi-national holding company Alshaya.
• Lead the on-call support team consisting of 6 team members resolving issues ranging from critical to low priority.