Ahmed AbdelHalim

Working as part of the Engineering Enablement team, that provides infrastructure, internal tooling, docs, CloudFoundry platform, and Kubernetes clusters, to help the development teams with their daily tasks.

• Worked on internal (halfpipe) tooling for building CI/CD pipelines on Github actions and Concourse.
• Implemented reusable GitHub Actions workflows for deploying to CloudFoundry, Kubernetes, and Docker Registries.
• Implemented tooling to show and report Kubernetes deployment status (from CI/CD) to respective teams, and notify them on failure.
• Implemented alert-routing service, to integrate with Prometheus alert-manager. And sends alerts to different teams/projects, and preconfigured Slack channels or emails.
• Maintained team docs used by other development teams, to integrate with and use internal platforms.
• Maintained terraform-provisioned infrastructure of different parts of the platforms.

• 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.
• Built standardized workflows using CircleCI to automate deployments (for internal and external projects).
• Implemented and maintained the (Rails 5) JSON API serving our infographics portal[1].
• Maintained 99+% documentation coverage of the infographics portal[1]. API and 90+% test coverage.
• Worked with Docker to provide deliverables for some of our external projects.
• 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.
• Rewrote, maintained and provisioned some of the data pipelines to adhere to a better security standards.

[1] A working version of the infographics portal was acquired by Scrolly Telling GmbH and still worked on by them as seen at Five-Times.

• Maintained the RESTful API (used by admins and front-end).
• Implemented and maintained the integration with Deutsche Bank.
• Implemented and maintained the integration with Intercom CRM.
• Implemented and maintained the Invoicing system.
• 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.

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.
• Maintained and provisioned different purpose VM instances on Google Cloud Platform (using chef).
• Reimplemented the “Extract” step in the ETL process (using an API based crawler instead of phantomJS browser).

• 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.
• Reimplemented large portions of the API to follow better design patterns (Hexagonal Architecture, and Pub/Sub pattern).