Adam Kadri
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps Engineer and Cloud Developer
Paris, France
Toptal member since August 6, 2021
Adam is a certified cloud solutions architect and DevOps expert with five years of experience, consulting European and American companies, from startups to corporations. He modernizes infrastructures by enhancing performance, security, and reliability while reducing costs and applying the industry's best practices to move to the cloud. Adam has extensive knowledge of cloud and DevOps technologies. He is proficient in AWS Cloud, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD tools, Linux, and Python.
Portfolio
Experience
- Docker - 5 years
- Linux - 5 years
- Kubernetes - 5 years
- DevOps - 5 years
- CI/CD Pipelines - 5 years
- Terraform - 3 years
- GitLab CI/CD - 3 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, CI/CD Pipelines, DevOps, GitLab CI/CD, Monitoring, Linux, Python
The most amazing...
...thing I've done is design and build several solutions architectures on AWS with automated CI/CD chains while ensuring their scalability and security.
Work Experience
Senior Cloud Engineer
Toptal client (Kubernetes PaaS)
- Guided the client in identifying key Kubernetes use cases for targeted market; validated tailored solutions resulting in increased customer acquisition and improved customer satisfaction.
- Led the administration, maintenance, and upgrade of Kubernetes clusters, ensuring optimal performance and scalability across cloud and on-prem infrastructure; minimized downtime and enhanced system reliability.
- Architected innovative features within the product leveraging Kubernetes open-source projects (KubeVirt, Cluster API, Hubble, etc.), Kubernetes Operators, and Go.
- Orchestrated the design and deployment of an advanced central monitoring solution by leveraging the Prometheus Operator stack and Grafana. Empowered health industry customers to monitor and manage over 1,000 Kubernetes edge clusters.
- Developed a robust monitoring solution using KubeVirt, Prometheus Operator, and Grafana, ensuring real-time visibility and performance optimization for VMs running on Kubernetes, reducing system downtime, and improving resource utilization.
- Enhanced the developer experience by integrating and automating deployments of 15+ 3rd-party applications and databases into Kubernetes hosts and nested virtual clusters, resulting in a seamless user experience for developers and non-technical users.
- Evaluated, tested, and demonstrated methods of deploying 40+ applications, databases, workloads, and ML workflows (Kubeflow, TensorFlow) on Kubernetes to highlight the client's product advantages and added value for end users.
Cloud and DevOps Consultant
Emeria (previously Foncia Groupe)
- Ensured that the client's infrastructure needs were met to accommodate their complex ERP utilized by Foncia, a leading property manager in France and Europe.
- Configured and sized cloud environments like AWS, MongoDB Atlas, and CloudAMQP to adhere to best practices for performance, high availability, fault tolerance, security, and FinOps.
- Automated and industrialized the lifecycle for infrastructural resources on AWS, Okta, and MongoDB Atlas using Terraform and Terragrunt.
- Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines and workflows with GitLab CI, allowing for the construction and deployment of ERP microservices, databases, and cloud resources.
- Created monitors and dashboards on Datadog to observe and monitor the health of the infrastructures and applications.
DevOps Engineer | AWS, Terraform
BCG
- Utilized AWS technologies to deploy IAM, RDS, ALB, EC2, and S3 resources, as well as executable containers via ECS, observing best practices for enterprise application development.
- Built CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions for data modeling, processing containers on AWS ECS, and orchestrating systems such as Airflow on AWS.
- Leveraged Terraform and CircleCI to automate AWS resources provisioning and implementing a Zero Trust approach.
- Advised the client on best practices for infrastructure as a code and cloud architectures in corporate environments.
Solution Architect | DevOps Engineer
Transeo
- Utilized Terraform to securely migrate a self-managed Amazon EC2-based Kubernetes cluster into Amazon EKS.
- Transformed the deployment process for multiple applications from Docker Compose to Helm charts in combination with Terraform code and CI/CD.
- Built CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions to create, test, and deploy stack applications to ECR and EKS clusters.
- Designed the infrastructure architecture for different environments (staging, production) using EKS, VPC, RDS, IAM, and S3.
- Configured monitoring for an EKS cluster by utilizing Prometheus, Amazon Managed Grafana, and Amazon CloudWatch.
- Strengthened security hardening in AWS and augmented the networking architecture (Amazon VPC).
Cloud and DevOps Engineer
Toptal Clients
- Designed and implemented a serverless API endpoint with Lambda and API Gateway using the Serverless Framework.
- Ensured the operational condition of a B2B/B2C platform running on GKE (Kubernetes on GCP); debugged and fixed issues in the production environment.
- Created a development environment for a startup on AWS, using IAM, CodeCommit, Terraform, and other services.
Cloud and DevOps Engineer
Datategy
- Provided guidance to the CTO and project managers with technology selection and decision-making.
- Guided developer teams and project managers in the implementation and utilization of DevOps principles, leading to successful adoption.
- Collaborated with development teams to enhance the security, orchestration, and monitoring of company solutions architecture.
- Designed and implemented the architecture of a B2B solution on AWS using Kubernetes, S3, RDS, Aurora, CodeBuild, WAF, Lambda, and other services, enabling a highly available and cost-effective production environment.
- Established the architecture of a B2B ML and Data Science SaaS solution from the ground up on Kubernetes, with its CI/CD chain using Ansible and GitLab CI. The ecosystem consists of multiple microservices and apps (Spark cluster, databases).
- Constructed and managed an automated CI/CD chain for internal development teams with Jenkins, Ansible, Docker Compose, and BitBucket along with a monitoring solution with ELK stack.
Experience
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Science Enterprise Platform
I served as the cloud and DevOps engineer and designed the infrastructure architecture using Kubernetes and Linux. Performed the containerization of the solution's components for apps in Python, Scala, Java, Angular, Node.js, Spark, and databases. Also built and maintained fully automated CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Ansible, Helm, Docker, and Bitbucket, along with the advanced monitoring using ELK, Grafana, and Prometheus.
Telecommunications B2B Solution
AI Platform for Fraud Fighting
I served as the DevOps engineer, performing the containerization of the solution's apps using Python, Node.js, and Angular, administering databases like Cassandra and PostgreSQL and Linux servers (Centos 7 and Debian). Built CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Ansible, BitBucket, Docker, and Compose and maintained the operational condition of the production environment with frequent improvements of the infrastructure architecture.
Education
Master's Degree in Information Technology
Institut F2I - Vincennes, France
Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology
L’École des Technologies Numériques Avancées (ETNA) - Ivry-sur-Seine, France
Certifications
AWS Certified Database - Specialty
AWS
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
AWS
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
HashiCorp
AWS Certified Developer Associate
AWS
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals
Microsoft
AWS Certified Security - Specialty
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
AWS
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services
Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)
Red Hat
CompTIA Linux+
CompTIA
Certified Linux Administrator (LPIC-1)
Linux Professional Institute
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Node.js, GitHub API, Terragrunt
Tools
Ansible, Terraform, Git, AWS IAM, AWS Key Management Service (KMS), AWS CloudTrail, Amazon CloudWatch, Jenkins, Helm, Docker Compose, Amazon EKS, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), NGINX, Bitbucket, ELK (Elastic Stack), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), GitLab CI/CD, GitLab, Grafana, Jira, Atlassian, GitHub, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Apache Airflow, Kustomize, Istio, AWS Systems Manager, AWS CloudFormation, AWS ELB, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon CloudFront CDN, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, Amazon ElastiCache
Languages
Bash, Python, SQL, Java, Python 3, YAML
Paradigms
DevOps, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Integration (CI), DevSecOps, Scrum, Automation, Serverless Architecture, Microservices
Platforms
Linux, Kubernetes, Docker, Amazon EC2, AWS Cloud Computing Services, AWS Lambda, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux CentOS 7, Debian, Linux RHEL/CentOS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AWS ALB, Kubeflow, AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Storage
Amazon S3 (AWS S3), OVH, Databases, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Datadog, Amazon Aurora, MySQL, MongoDB, Redshift, Amazon DynamoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch
Other
Orchestration, Containers, Containerization, Container Orchestration, Cloud Security, Cloud Architecture, AWS Cloud Architecture, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, RHEL, Linux Server Configuration, Programming, Cloud, IT Infrastructure, Cloud Infrastructure, Linux Administration, CI/CD Pipelines, AWS DevOps, Computer Science, AWS Certified Developer, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Site Reliability, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Amazon RDS, Web Application Firewall (WAF), Networks, Linux Server Administration, Networking, Web Security, Web Servers, Monitoring, Prometheus, Algorithms, Identity & Access Management (IAM), System Administration, IT Security, Security, Load Balancers, Web Technologies, Agile DevOps, GitHub Actions, DevOps Engineer, ECS, CloudAMQP, FinOps, Open Source, Technical Documentation, Machine Learning, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator, AWS CodePipeline, Amazon API Gateway
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