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Emad Gamal Kamel Senior DevOps Engineer
Work Experience
Senior DevOps Engineer, Giza Systems
Feb 2024 – present | Cairo, Egypt
  • •Implement, administrate, and maintain cloud infrastructure.
  • •Manage release management processes, including designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines.
  • •Mentor internship trainees and develop training programs on DevOps practices.
    • Senior DevOps Engineer, IST Networks (MajorelX)
    Nov 2021 – Nov 2023 | Egypt & KSA
  • •Built and established the DevOps function from scratch, leading a team to define processes, drive culture change, and execute technical tasks.
  • •Designed and maintained a DevOps Service Catalog, which enabled the organization to streamline service delivery and improve efficiency.
  • •Raising awareness of cloud and DevOps practices throughout the organization, conducting training sessions and workshops.
  • •Architecting, installing, and managing large-scale production Kubernetes/OCP clusters on-premises and on-the-cloud solutions that support customer workloads.
  • •Leading the deployment of large-scale microservices & Deep learning applications for major enterprises, and governmental entities in the Gulf area.
  • •Architecting, creating, and managing reliable local infrastructure solutions like Linux key areas such as filesystem management, networking, and security hardening that reduces downtime by 30% and achieves 70% cost savings.
    • SRE/DevOps Engineer, zTechnium
    Feb 2020 – Apr 2021 | Cairo, Egypt

    Manage and maintain an e-commerce website with 50K daily active users, ensuring 99.9% uptime reliability, with the following duties:

  • •Install and configure cloud infrastructure components, including Linux servers, Kubernetes clusters, HTTP proxy/security firewalls, and storage solutions.
  • •Containerize, and deploy large-scale microservices applications.
  • •Design, and manage orchestration, monitoring, and CI/CD services.
  • •Providing support and troubleshooting to ensure smooth operation.
    • DevOps Engineer, Hoopoe Digital LLC
    Jul 2019 – Feb 2020 | Cairo, Egypt
  • •Implemented, administrated, and maintained cloud infrastructure.
  • •Developed and tested web application monitoring solutions and web services, improving the availability and performance of web services.
  • •Managed release management processes, including designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using GitLab-CI.
  • •Dockerized applications and managed web servers, streamlining the deployment and management of web services.
    • Network Engineer, EMC "Egyptian Maintenance Co."
    Sep 2017 – Dec 2018Middle/Upper Egypt
  • •Served as an outsourced network engineer for project implementation and validation of core network devices and voice systems in over 150 power stations across the middle and upper Egypt area.
  • •Created, planned, validated, and delivered testing procedures for Cisco networking appliances and Selta voice systems.
  • •Troubleshoot network tasks, ensuring uninterrupted network connectivity and reliable services.
    • Skills
    Misc.

    Networking - Linux administration - Firewall/proxy - Security- Git - Systems design - Cloud-native - Serverless - Agile - Design Thinking.

    Cloud Providers/Platforms

    AWS - Azure - OCI - GCP - VMWare Vsphere.

    CI/CD

    GitLabCI - Jenkins - GitHub Actions - Bitbucket - Azure DevOps - ArgoCD - Nexus.

    Monitoring

    ELK/EFK Filebeat - Prometheus - Grafana

    Containerization

    Docker - Kubernetes - OpenShift - Rancher - cilium - Longhorn - Ceph - MinIO.

    IaaC

    Ansible - Terraform - AWS CloudFormation - Vault - Consul.

    Database systems

    PostgreSQL - MySQL - MongoDB - Redis - Cassandra - ElasticSearch - Kafka.

    Backend Framewarks

    Python (Django - FastAPI - Flask) - Java (Spring) - JavaScript (NodeJS) - GoLang.

    Certificates
    Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
    Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator
    Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)
    Certified Kubernetes Security specialist (CKS)
    Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer
    CCNA (Routing and Switching)
    AWS Certified: Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA)
    Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect
    CCNA (CyberOps)
    Courses
    Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD), Linux Foundation
    Distributed Systems Design using SOA & DDD, Particular Software
    RedHat Certified Engineer (RHCE), RedHat
    Software Architecture, ITIDA
    Education
    Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting & Business administration), Benha University
    Accomplishments
    Watson IoT Hackathon, Team leader
    IBM, Egypt
    Call for Code Competition, Team member
    IBM, Egypt
    Languages
    English
    Germany
    Volunteering
    Google Developer Student Club (GDSC), Benha University, Team Lead
    Cloud Application Developer - Skills Acadmy, Instructor, Mentor
    IBM, Egypt