Kareem is available for hire

Kareem Al-Naggar

Verified Expert in Engineering

Cloud Architect and Developer

Location

Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt

Toptal Member Since

April 11, 2023

Kareem is a cloud and DevOps architect with over 15 years of experience in IT. He has focused on delivering cloud architecture solutions, infrastructure modernization, DevOps implementations, app modernization, and cloud-native and data-driven software development. Kareem has successfully helped many US and EMEA clients migrate their complex and sensitive workloads to the cloud in various industries such as government, manufacturing, media, marketing, and healthcare.

Cloud Infrastructure Infrastructure as Code (IaC)Linux Windows PHP Docker JavaScript Python Ansible Google Cloud Platform (GCP)Apache Google Cloud DevOps Jenkins Bash NetApp

Portfolio

Rackspace Technology

Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Jenkins, Ansible, Python, NGINX...

Cloud 11

Google Cloud, Google Workspace, Google Maps API, Google Cloud Platform (GCP)...

Yellow Pages Digital & Media Solutions

Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), PHP, Docker, JavaScript, MySQL...

Experience

Linux - 12 years Networking - 9 years Python - 7 years Ansible - 7 years DevOps - 5 years Google Cloud - 5 years Terraform - 3 years Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 3 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Python, JavaScript, Linux, Windows, Ansible, Jenkins, Terraform, Kubernetes

The most amazing...

...project I've led is migrating a complicated banking system with hundreds of machines and components to the cloud, making it more resilient and secure.

Work Experience

Senior Cloud Practice Engineer

2021 - PRESENT

Rackspace Technology

Migrated 200+ multi-tiered servers from on-premise systems to Google Cloud.
Designed and executed disaster recovery solutions for app and database machines.
Refactored hardware-based application delivery controllers with 60+ services to cloud-based technology using AWS infrastructure and NGINX.
Built an assessment to evaluate the current architecture for the cloud environment and provide recommendations and best practices for performance, security, cloud operations, cost optimization, and workload reliability, such as SAP.

Technologies: Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Jenkins, Ansible, Python, NGINX, NetApp, SAP, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Servers

Enterprise Architect

2021 - 2022

Cloud 11

Provided 12 architecture designs for planning and executing migration and implementation of workload hosting on Google Cloud.
Managed project delivery for government, education, real estate, eCommerce, and manufacturing institutions.
Delivered training programs for software engineers, IT specialists, and C-level executives on cloud computing, its services, and required practices such as DevOps.

Technologies: Google Cloud, Google Workspace, Google Maps API, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Servers

Cloud Architect

2019 - 2021

Yellow Pages Digital & Media Solutions

Migrated and refactored 11 monolith applications with over one million daily visits into containerized applications and successfully implemented CI/CD operations.
Reduced operational costs by 300% and increased the development team performance by saving 70% of the time previously dedicated to troubleshooting deployment issues.
Planned and executed DevOps and Agile implementations and provided training sessions for developers and IT teams.

Technologies: Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), PHP, Docker, JavaScript, MySQL, Cloud Infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Node.js, Apache, Servers

Experience

Disaster Recovery Cloud Automation

An integration of configuration management tools, middleware programs, and cloud operations for applications, databases, and business intelligence systems to perform an automated failover/failback between sites. This system was built for workforce software handling banking customers.

Architecture Assessement

A set of tools and documentation for evaluating existing cloud environments, providing recommendations and best practices for well-architected environments, and approaching them without breaking the current system.

Data Modernization for B2B Reporting Application

I designed the architecture for migrating and re-platforming a B2B SaaS reporting application and its databases. This project included designing and executing a landing zone, an HA infrastructure, and a pipeline for loading data to a highly scalable data warehouse.

Certifications

MARCH 2023 - MARCH 2026

Red Hat Certified System Administrator

Red Hat

JUNE 2022 - JUNE 2024

Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer

Google Cloud

APRIL 2022 - APRIL 2024

Professional Cloud Architect

Google Cloud

Skills

Languages

PHP, JavaScript, Python, Bash, Java

Libraries/APIs

Node.js, Google Maps API

Tools

Ansible, Jenkins, Terraform, Apache, NGINX, Git, IBM Cognos

Paradigms

DevOps, DevSecOps

Platforms

Docker, Linux, Windows, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, QlikView, Red Hat Linux

Storage

Google Cloud, MySQL, NetApp, IBM Db2, Vertica

Other

Cloud Infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Networking, Servers, SAP, Google Workspace, SAP Architecture, Cloud Architecture, Operational Excellence, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Google BigQuery, Active Directory (AD)

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