Platform engineer at Springer Nature Group with
10+ years of experience in software development (backend/API focused),
5+ years in infrastructure automation and DevOps,
hobbyist security analyst and tester.
An avid fan of automation, sustainability, design patterns, and clean code.
Always interested in deriving a better problem-solving method for challenging tasks,
and learning sensible new technologies and tools (when the need arises).
Platform Engineer
Feb. 2022 - Present
Berlin, Germany
Part of the Engineering Enablement team, that enables product teams to focus on
delivering value to the business.
We Provide:
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) with centralised services like
logging, metrics, CI/CD and caching.
- CloudFoundry platform capable of handling an average of 13.000 requests/min.
- CloudFoundary and Kubernetes clusters with around 2.800 apps (Micro-Services).
- Concourse pipelines that handle an average of 4.000 deployments/week.
- Internal tooling around building pipelines for CI/CD on Concourse and GitHub actions.
- Prometheus as a Service, and pre-configured customizable Grafana dashboards for developers to use.
- Logging via ELK/Loki and logging metrics.
- Implementing solutions for cloud services, focusing on high availability, security,
disaster recovery, scaling and performance.
Senior Developer/DevOps
Apr. 2018 - Nov. 2021
Berlin, Germany
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Implemented infrastructure as code (IaC) for different projects using Terraform and Ansible.
- Standardized the deployment process (and maintained the process documentation).
- Built templates to provision infrastructure on different cloud providers and development stages.
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Built standardized workflows using CircleCI to automate deployments (for internal and external projects).
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Implemented and maintained the (Rails 5) JSON API serving our
infographics portal.
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Maintained 99+% documentation coverage of the
infographics portal API and 90+% test coverage.
- Worked with Docker to provide deliverables for some of our external projects.
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Provided support and tutoring to work with our standard deployment workflows (internally and externally).
- Worked closely with our Systems Engineer to support with various DevOps tasks.
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Rewrote, maintained and provisioned some of the data pipelines to adhere to a better security standards.
Senior Backend Developer
Mar. 2016 - Dec. 2017
Berlin, Germany
- Maintained the RESTful API (used by admins and front-end).
- Implemented and maintained the integration with Deutsche Bank.
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Implemented and maintained the integration with Intercom
CRM.
- Implemented and maintained the Invoicing system.
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Implemented the new authentication layer using
(RFC7519: JWT).
- Implemented the Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) for user/client login.
- Integrated other services like DocuSign, PostIdent,...
- Implemented day to day business/marketing/technical requirements.
PrioriData GmbH.
Full Stack Developer
Jul. 2015 - Feb. 2016
Berlin, Germany
Was acquired by Airnow Data Ltd.
- Maintained the Rails web (dashboard) app.
- Optimized the scraping process of getting the data from Apple and GooglePlay stores.
- Reimplemented the queueing and monitoring around the scrapers.
- Migrated acquired data from different resources to Google BigQuery.
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Maintained and provisioned different purpose VM instances on Google
Cloud Platform (using chef).
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Reimplemented the “Extract” step in the
ETL process (using an API based crawler instead of phantomJS
browser).
AskNative
Backend Developer/DevOps
May. 2013 - Jul. 2015
Remote, Egypt
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Reimplemented large portions of the API to follow better design patterns
(Hexagonal Architecture, and Pub/Sub pattern).
- Implemented the test suite for the API.
- Implemented events booking feature via Stripe.
- Reimplemented caching for better response times.
- Maintained the Heroku stacks for staging/production.