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Tariq Al Lawati

Senior DevOps Engineer · Nimbus Digital

Tariq Al Lawati

AWS DevOps engineer — pipelines, Kubernetes platforms and infrastructure as code

Every change through a pipeline, every environment from code, every deploy reversible in a minute.

  1. Sultan Qaboos UniversityB.Sc., Computer ScienceSep 2012 – Jun 2016 — source
  2. OmantelSystems EngineerJan 2017 – Feb 2019 — completed
  3. Gulf Bank TechnologyDevOps EngineerMar 2019 – Apr 2022 — completed
  4. Nimbus DigitalSenior DevOps EngineerMay 2022 – Present — current
  • 10years of experience
  • 3roles
  • 3projects
  • 4certifications

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.

Experience

  1. Senior DevOps Engineer

    Nimbus Digital · Muscat

    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
  2. DevOps Engineer

    Gulf Bank Technology · Muscat

    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
  3. Systems Engineer

    Omantel · Muscat

    Automation and monitoring for the telecom's internal platforms; first Terraform and Docker adoption.

Projects

  • ship

    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.

    • EKS
    • Argo
    • Go
  • Landing zone

    Landing zone v2

    Architect · 2022 – 2023

    40 accounts, Control Tower, SCPs, centralised CloudTrail and Config, account vending in under an hour.

    • Control Tower
    • CDK
    • governance
  • cost-cop

    cost-cop

    Author · 2024

    Open-source Lambda that tags, reports and shuts down what nobody owns. Saved the first 11 % by itself.

    • Lambda
    • Python
    • FinOps
    • open source
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Skills

Cloud

  • AWS (EC2, EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS)
  • IAM and Organizations
  • VPC and networking
  • CloudWatch and X-Ray

Infrastructure as code

  • Terraform
  • AWS CDK
  • CloudFormation

Delivery

  • Kubernetes (EKS)
  • GitHub Actions
  • Argo CD
  • Docker

Languages

  • Go
  • Python
  • Bash

Certifications

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Professional

    Amazon Web Services

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  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer — Professional

    Amazon Web Services

  • HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate

    HashiCorp

  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator

    CNCF

Achievements

  • AWS bill −38 % in twelve months2025
  • 1,400 production deploys a month, rollback < 60 s2024
  • Central bank cloud review passed first time2020

About

At Nimbus I own the platform that 18 teams ship through: 40 AWS accounts under Control Tower, three EKS clusters, 600 pipelines and the on-call rota that keeps them honest.

Previously I built the same thing twice — once for a telecom, once for a bank — which is why the third one is small, documented and mostly automated.

Education

  1. B.Sc., Computer Science

    Sultan Qaboos University

Publications

Testimonials

  • Deploys used to be an event. Now nobody notices them — which is the whole point.

    Laila Al Busaidi — VP Engineering, Nimbus Digital

Languages

  • ArabicNative
  • EnglishFluent

Interests

  • Diving
  • Home automation
  • Arabic calligraphy

Contact

Your message goes straight to Tariq Al Lawati. No account needed.

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