Professional Summary
Nine years building the delivery machinery for product teams on AWS: multi-account landing zones, EKS platforms, CI/CD with GitHub Actions and CDK, observability and cost control. I like boring deploys and loud dashboards.
Work Experience
Senior DevOps Engineer, Nimbus Digital
Muscat · May 2022 – Present
Platform owner for 18 product teams: accounts, clusters, pipelines, observability, cost.
- Blue/green deployment platform on EKS — 1,400 production deploys a month, rollback under 60 seconds
- Multi-account landing zone with Control Tower, SCPs and centralised logging
- Cost programme cut the AWS bill 38 % in a year with Savings Plans, Graviton and right-sizing
DevOps Engineer, Gulf Bank Technology
Muscat · Mar 2019 – Apr 2022
Built the bank's first AWS platform under regulatory constraints: private networking, encryption everywhere, audited pipelines.
- Passed the central bank's cloud review at the first attempt
- Moved 70 services from Jenkins to GitHub Actions with reusable workflows
Systems Engineer, Omantel
Muscat · Jan 2017 – Feb 2019
Automation and monitoring for the telecom's internal platforms; first Terraform and Docker adoption.
Education
B.Sc., Computer Science, Sultan Qaboos University
Sep 2012 – Jun 2016
Skills
AWS (EC2, EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS), IAM and Organizations, VPC and networking, CloudWatch and X-Ray, Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Kubernetes (EKS), GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Docker, Go, Python, Bash
Certifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Professional — Amazon Web Services, Feb 2024 (valid to Feb 2027)
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer — Professional — Amazon Web Services, May 2023 (valid to May 2026)
- HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate — HashiCorp, Oct 2022
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator — CNCF, Nov 2021
Projects
ship — the deployment platform — Lead
2023 – present
Blue/green and canary deploys on EKS with Argo Rollouts, automatic rollback on SLO burn, a CLI and a Slack bot. 1,400 deploys a month.
Landing zone v2 — Architect
2022 – 2023
40 accounts, Control Tower, SCPs, centralised CloudTrail and Config, account vending in under an hour.
cost-cop — Author
2024
Open-source Lambda that tags, reports and shuts down what nobody owns. Saved the first 11 % by itself.
https://example.com/cost-cop
Achievements
- AWS bill −38 % in twelve months, 2025
- 1,400 production deploys a month, rollback < 60 s, 2024
- Central bank cloud review passed first time, 2020
Languages
Arabic (Native), English (Fluent)