Tariq Shatat
Verified Expert in Engineering
Argo CD Developer
Tariq is a passionate, delivery-oriented cloud and software engineer and AWS Certified Solutions Architect with 8+ years of experience in high-end software firms and four years in the infrastructure domain, including AWS, GCP, and Kubernetes, shipping applications to millions of clients around the world. He served the edtech, healthtech, supply chain, and navigation industries. Tariq is a true owner and skilled troubleshooter aiming to make life easier by building resilient software.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Kubernetes, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, Node.js, Helm, Argo CD, Apache Kafka, MySQL, MongoDB
The most amazing...
...thing I've built: a SaaS platform to stream MATLAB-like apps without changing the core—I used AWS technologies like Lambda, Dynamo, Cognito, and AppStream.
Work Experience
Lead SRE Engineer
Swvl
- Collaborated with the team to reduce cloud spending by 40%, leveraging cloud best practices in terms of autoscaling, capacity planning, and performance optimization.
- Worked with the team to migrate infrastructure to Kubernetes infrastructure based on GKE and EKS.
- Co-built a serverless GitHub Runner orchestrator to autoscale and provision the machines used for CI pipelines on AWS using Terraform, Lambda, API Gateway, and CloudWatch.
- Provisioned the infrastructure of code for multi-environment on both GCP and AWS using Terraform and Terragrunt.
- Helped the team migrate the CI pipelines of 25+ services into GitHub Actions using AWS App Runner and the CD pipelines to use ArgoCD declaratively.
- Cooperated closely with development to migrate from monolith to microservices architecture while using a wide variety of technologies, including Kafka, Elastic Search, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL.
- Contributed to the implementation of the observability stack using Prometheus and Datadog.
Senior Cloud Engineer
Rackspace Technology
- Helped our clients to migrate and set up their infrastructure using AWS and Kubernetes.
- Built a complete SAAS platform using AWS serverless architecture to stream a MATLAB-like desktop application using AWS Lambda, Cognito, AppStream, and DynamoDB.
- Helped our client create a multi-account and multiregional, AWS-based environment using Terraform and Terragrunt.
- Used AWS to build a complete SaaS platform to stream a MATLAB-like desktop application to clients through a web interface without changing the core implementation of the app.
- Mentored and supervised a group of two or three engineers to deliver infrastructure to our clients effectively.
Technical Lead
Hospitalia Ltd
- Designed and implemented the migration to AWS serverless architecture using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, S3, and Amazon CloudFront.
- Led a team of front-end, mobile, and back-end engineers to develop and maintain Hospitalia application using ASP.NET Core, React, React Native, and Node.js.
- Collaborated with business stakeholders and product designers to define the product roadmap and analyze customer feedback.
Solutions Architect
RoboGarden
- Worked closely with the CTO to provide optimization plans for the infrastructure performance, cost, availability, and resiliency.
- Led the DevOps team to implement AWS WAA and streamline the development and integration process.
- Reduced the cloud spending by 25% while the customer base grew to 200% by leveraging scheduled scaling and server-less techniques.
- Migrated most of the services into either a Lambda and API gateway or Docker on ECS based on the use case.
- Built the CI/CD pipelines for RoboGarden Services using Jenkins.
Experience
Real-time Structural Health Monitoring
Hospitalia Infrastructure Modernization
https://www.app.hospitalia.net/Migration of a Large Infrastructure to AWS
My main role was to help build the Kubernetes infrastructure with best practices of security, availability, and performance in mind.
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
AWS
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Terragrunt, Node.js, React, AWS Amplify
Tools
Amazon EKS, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Terraform, Vault, AWS IAM, Helm, NGINX, AWS CodeDeploy, MongoDB Atlas, AWS Fargate, AWS CloudFormation, Git, Grafana, Amazon AppStream, GitLab, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Elastic, AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), GitHub
Paradigms
DevOps, Continuous Delivery (CD), Serverless Architecture, Continuous Integration (CI), Microservices
Storage
Databases, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Google Cloud, Redis, Amazon DynamoDB, MySQL, MongoDB, Amazon Aurora, Google Cloud SQL, Datadog
Platforms
Kubernetes, AWS Lambda, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Linux, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Apache Kafka, Amazon EC2, AWS IoT Core, Webflow
Languages
Go, Python, JavaScript, SQL, TypeScript, Active Server Pages (ASP), PHP
Frameworks
ASP.NET Core, ASP.NET, Next.js
Other
Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Cloud, Container Orchestration, AWS Cloud Architecture, Networking, AWS Certified Solution Architect, Containerization, Serverless, GitOps, AWS DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, Scalable Web Services, Web Hosting, Web Scalability, Argo CD, CI/CD Pipelines, Autoscaling, Monitoring, Amazon API Gateway, Containers, Lambda Functions, Amazon RDS, Relational Database Services (RDS), Prometheus, GoDaddy, API Gateways, Amazon Route 53, AWS Cloud Development, Amazon Kinesis, Architecture
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