Ala'a Abunemeh
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps Engineer and Developer
Ala'a is a talented DevOps engineer focused on performance optimization and technical improvements with an understanding of cost-effective decision-making and usability. He has built and managed highly scalable, reliable, and durable infrastructures focusing on performance and cost-effectiveness. He has also worked on creating CI/CD pipelines and automating infrastructure and codebases. Ala'a has excellent skills that will help you reach your goals.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, Helm, Argo CD, Jenkins, CI/CD Pipelines, Linux, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
The most amazing...
...thing I've created is a highly available, durable, and fully automated infrastructure that can self-heal and that has achieved 99.99% up-time.
Work Experience
Senior DevOps Engineer
BitOasis
- Managed and maintained helm charts for microservices.
- Managed and created automated release pipelines focusing on security and effectiveness.
- Migrated Jenkins from EC2 to inside the EKS cluster and used the Kubernetes plugin, saving cost and enabling the running of multiple concurrent jobs simultaneously.
- Used Kaniko instead of Docker to build Docker images. Kaniko is a tool used to create container images from a Dockerfile inside a container or Kubernetes cluster.
- Created Terraform code for managing the whole cloud infrastructure.
Senior Infrastructure and DevOps Engineer
TheChefz
- Built the whole infrastructure from the ground up.
- Created fully automated systems covering every aspect of the infrastructure.
- Introduced containerization to the development team.
- Conducted sessions about DevOps and the tools used in it.
- Created custom system services to run customer PHP commands.
- Achieved 99.99% availability on the cloud-based infrastructure.
- Saved the company $9,000 by suggesting optimization on the database and socket levels.
- Created a fully functional EKS cluster to serve the application.
- Saved the company hours when sending notifications by switching from PHP commands to Firebase topics.
- Managed and maintained all aspects of the infrastructure as the only DevOps engineer.
Infrastructure and DevOps Engineer
OpenSooq
- Managed huge infrastructure with more than 300 servers.
- Headed a team consisting of two junior DevOps engineers.
- Got recognized as a team player after three months on the team and got a salary raise.
- Supported multiple coding languages such as PHP, Python, and Node.js.
- Developed a disaster recovery mechanism to run the site in case of an AWS region failure.
- Wrote a report comparing AWS cloud and Google Cloud in terms of computing, storage, network, billing, support, uptime, and security.
- Created a report comparing AWS cloud and Oracle Cloud in terms of computing, storage, network, billing, support, uptime, and security.
- Handled huge clusters of MySQL, including master-slave and master-master replications, Redis Master-Slave and Redis Sentinel, and MongoDB replica sets.
- Created a custom auto-scaler to scale spot and on-demand instances based on custom criteria to save costs.
Linux System Administrator
Winfooz
- Received the employee of the month award after three months on the team.
- Created a Jenkins master-slave cluster for building containers and running internal jobs.
- Wrote a disaster recovery code for the entire infrastructure in Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.
- Dockerized a Ruby on Rails web app and shared it with the development team.
- Created init.d custom services to run scripts from Ruby code.
- Wrote an automated test environment creation pipeline.
Application Support Specialist
EastNets
- Got recognized as a top achiever in the number of tickets solved.
- Provided support to clients and acted as their direct contact when needed to handle issues.
- Shared ideas with the development team to implement in the system.
Experience
Auto Dealership Platform
https://winfooz.comI managed the entire cloud infrastructure hosted on AWS and oversaw the creation of Docker images and deployments on multiple services such as ECS, Elastic Beanstalk, and EC2.
Arabic Classified Ad Platform
https://opensooq.comI had to manage and maintain a huge infrastructure in this role, serving more than a hundred thousand requests per minute, ensuring availability and scalability. I also managed the automation of every aspect of the infrastructure.
Gym Management System
https://wodworx.comI created the infrastructure from scratch on the Hetzner Cloud.
Food Mobile App
https://thechefz.coIn this position, from the moment I joined the team, I created the whole architecture from the ground up, introducing new services and using new technologies for automation, monitoring, and scaling; the project was redeployed from scratch on multiple services such as AWS EC2, ECS, lambda functions with API Gateways and EKS and chained with autoscaling and monitoring tools such as Grafana, ELK, Metabase, Nagios, Percona monitoring tool and AWS CloudWatch.
Cryptocurrency Trading Platform
https://bitoasis.netIn this role, I managed multiple Kubernetes clusters deployed on AWS using Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), serving the cryptocurrency trading platform with automated deployments using Helm charts and Argo CD.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering
Tafila Technical University - Tafila, Jordan
Certifications
AWS Certified Security – Specialty
Amazon Web Services
GitOps at Scale
Codefresh
GitOps Fundamentals
Codefresh
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
AWS
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional
AWS
Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist
Linux Foundation
AWS Certified Developer Associate
AWS
Terraform Associate
HashiCorp
Associate Cloud Engineer
Google Cloud
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Linux Foundation
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
AWS
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
AWS
AWS Solutions Architect – Associate
AWS
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Jenkins Job DSL, Jenkins Pipeline, Amazon API, Node.js, Socket.IO, Redis Queue
Tools
Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon CloudWatch, Helm, Jenkins, Ansible, Ansible Tower, Nagios, NGINX, ELK (Elastic Stack), SonarQube, Amazon EKS, Amazon ElastiCache, GitHub, Vault, Amazon Firewall, Git, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Docker Compose, Amazon CloudFront CDN, Systemd, Amazon Athena, AWS Key Management Service (KMS), AWS Systems Manager, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), AWS CodeBuild, Amazon Cognito, Apache Solr, Grafana, Varnish, Kaniko, Istio, AWS Fargate
Paradigms
DevOps, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), ETL
Storage
Databases, MySQL, Redis, Memcached, MongoDB, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), LVM, SQL Performance, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, InfluxDB, ClickHouse
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, Amazon EC2, LAMP, Linux, Docker, Percona, Apache2, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS ALB, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Sideqik, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), AWS Lambda
Languages
SQL, PHP, Python, Ruby, Python 3, Java, GraphQL
Other
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS DevOps, Load Balancers, Autoscaling, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), AWS Cloud Architecture, CI/CD Pipelines, AWS Certified Solution Architect, AWS Certified Developer, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Security, Customer Support, IT Operations Management (ITOM), IT Automation, Mobile Device QA Automation, Shell Scripting, Amazon RDS, Web Application Firewall (WAF), ECS, Argo CD, GitOps, AWS WAF, Galera Cluster, EKS Cluster Autoscaling, Solution Architecture, Architecture, Kubernetes Operations (kOps), Database Optimization, IOPS, AWS NAT Gateway, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Google Workspace, Cloud Architecture, Prometheus, Ticketing, Amazon MQ, HAProxy, API Gateways, Data Warehousing, Cloud, NFS, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon Personalize, GitHub Actions, Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Inspector, Amazon Detective, AWS Shield, Container Security
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