Cloud Engineer

MAR 2025 - PRESENT · 1.5 years

To be filled later.

Founder and Principal Consultant

JUN 2017 - PRESENT · 9.3 years

● Founded and managed a successful consulting business specializing in DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, and Automation, providing services to clients across diverse industries ● Delivered end-to-end solutions, including infrastructure migrations, CI/CD pipeline design, and security enhancements, for clients ranging from startups to enterprise-scale organizations. ● Managed all aspects of the business, including client relationships, project delivery, and financial operations, achieving consistent revenue growth.

Devops Engineer and Infrastructure Engineer

OCT 2016 - PRESENT · 9.9 years

● Selected as part of the top 3% of applicants worldwide to join Toptal, a platform connecting top-tier engineers with global clients. ● Completed multiple high-impact contracts through Toptal, including roles at [InfoImage, AllVoices, etc.]. ● Delivered DevOps and infrastructure solutions for several SaaS companies, startups, and enterprises

DevOps and Infrastructure Engineer

JUL 2023 - AUG 2024 · 1.2 years

● Orchestrated the migration of 196 Vsphere VMs from Manual provisioning to IaC with Terraform and Ansible. VM Provisioning went from a few hours to less than 3 minutes. ● Configure and set up Hashicorp Packer to build standardized, secure Ubuntu and Rocky Linux Golden Images to provide a base image with all the requirements to accelerate provisioning. ● Provided comprehensive developer support, fostering seamless collaboration between infrastructure and development teams. ● Provided Data backup, restoration, and migration. ● Handled seamless MongoDB cluster replication and data migration. ● Brought in my 25+ years of Linux administrator skills for all VMs and improved resilience. ● Administered Datadog for logging and obsevability across all departments. ● Administered DELL Isilon NAS for Storage for the two engineering teams.

DevOps Engineer

MAR 2022 - NOV 2022 · 9 months

● Recreated and secured new Kubernetes clusters for all environments. ● Migrated the legacy Kubernetes terraform project from v0.11 to v1.3. ● Maintained the developers' CI/CD pipelines. ● Collaborated with the CTO on infrastructure design. ● Increased Kubernetes security with Falco. ● Wrote a custom Slack application for tracking builds and deployment with Python.

Cloud infrastructure and Cybersecurity Engineer

OCT 2018 - JUL 2021 · 2.8 years

● Was the only DevOps and Cloud Engineer for close to 2 years handling the whole infrastructure that is processing millions of messages monthly. ● Designed and Deployed Cloudformation stacks for 19 Microservices in several different environments. (74 total stacks) ● Designed and wrote ansible roles and plabooks for all stacks mentioned above. ● Designed, wrote and deployed golden images with Hashicorp Packer and reduced deployment time by around 60%. ● Lead all deployments , back up and monitoring for all environments. ● Was in charge of working with external security and compliance auditors and in charge of implementing all changes required by their report. ● Designed, Deployed and Maintained a TICK stack for Monitoring and Metrics. ● Supported all Developers in their day to day and system needs. ● Collaborated with the transition to Terraform and ECS when another Site Realibility Engineer joined the company. ● Collaborated with the developers to migrate all their stacks to Docker. ● Handled all cybersecurity policies and scans keeping all environments safe and secure. ● Managed Threatstack for applications and infrastructure security. ● Managed Papertrail for logs aggregation, parsing and indexing ;a huge departure from checking logs server by server.

DevOps and Infrastructure Engineer

SEP 2017 - JUL 2018 · 11 months

● Wrote IaC (Terraform) and Configuration Management(Ansible) to provision several Microservices on both AWS and VMware ESXi. ● Accelerated deployment by several orders of magnitude.

DevOps and Cloud engineer

JUN 2017 - AUG 2017 · 3 months

● Was my first contract as an incorporated contractor. ● Migrated a NodeJS application’s deployment to Ansible and Cloudformation. ● Handled deployments on the facebook gaming platform with Jenkins pipelines.

Infrastructure Engineer

JAN 2017 - APR 2017 · 4 months

● Worked on migrating the legacy infrastructure from Chef to Terraform and Ansible, making reproducibility, provisioning and configuration management much simpler and faster. ● Monitored the infrastructure diligently with Datadog ● Monitored all applications with New Relic.

Automation and Devops Engineer

OCT 2016 - FEB 2017 · 5 months

● Was part of the new effort to modernize the city of Montreal’s Informatics Infrastructure ● Worked on virtualizing the workflow, modernizing the Infrastructure and ways of working. ● Using OpenStack as a base for IaaS and Kubernetes for PaaS. ● Worked with over 200 Engineers with a common mission to modernise the failing and obsolete infrastructure and ways of working.

Back-End Software Engineer

MAR 2015 - FEB 2016 · 1 year

● Worked with an International team (Canada, Spain, Hungary, and Croatia) to create an Ericsson-wide custom IPAM and deployment solution for the new massive ICT centers. ● Made me for flexible in regard of timezones and different working cultures. ● IPAM was a huge success across multiple departments spread around the world.

Test Configuration Manager

NOV 2012 - MAR 2015 · 2.4 years

● Managed Testing Environments for several development teams to simulate real nodes. ● Managed Several Telecommunication Clustered Nodes ● Virtualized Nodes Installation on VMWare ESXi, Xen, and KVM like HSS, HLR and CUDB. ● Create a PXEBoot System and automation for seamless nodes startup. ● Improved and facilitated the job of testers and their testing environments. ● Automated installations and configurations with a custom-made installation platform. ● Led a team of interns to create a custom IPAM for our department, and made sure they learned best practices to help them be ready for the next step in their careers.

Build and System Administrator

SEP 2011 - SEP 2012 · 1.1 years

● Seamlessly Handled all apps deployment on AWS. ● Administered local Linux server for Data Backup and LDAP. ● Managed over 90 users on LDAP and Google Apps. ● Single handedly managed migrating all users from onprem email system to google mail that became the SSO for all all users applications like Git and Atlassian Products ● Packaged and distributed Python and Java stacks ● Acted as a MySQL administrator and helped developers with their day to day work. ● Maintained and administrated of Atlassian Products(Crowd,Crucible,Fisheye)

Build Engineer

FEB 2010 - APR 2011 · 1.3 years

● Was in charge of all QA environment infrastructure. ● Was in charge of the entire build process ● Redesigned the whole workflow and build time from several hours to less than 15 mins, which allowed several releases a week instead of a whole release day a week. ● Launched a whole rewrite of the build from ANT to Maven.

Early Career Experiences

JUN 2002 - DEC 2009 · 7.6 years

● Worked in various roles as a software engineer and systems administrator across companies like G10/Sun Microsystems, Layout LTD and Others. ● Developed expertise in Linux administration and configuration management. ● Built a strong foundation in software development using Java, PHP, and C.