Ilias User

Engaged in multiple short-term consulting projects across various companies, providing expert advice and solutions. Focused on delivering specialized technical assistance and strategic guidance to meet diverse client needs.

Developed new features and debugged reported issues for the multi-cloud Kubernetes platform. Supported various product teams across the organization, ensuring platform stability and functionality.

Redesigned logging and monitoring solutions for cost efficiency and centralization. Migrated services to a shared Kubernetes platform to consolidate resources and optimize costs, improving platform evolution and automation tooling.

Consulted the Digital department on their DevOps approach, evaluating maturity and processes employed. Provided recommendations and Proof of Concepts for improved ways of working, focusing on reusability, standardization, and CI/CD.

Migrated services from an old platform to a modern Kubernetes platform, including CI/CD pipelines to Drone CI and ArgoCD. Developed Terraform IaC and Helm charts with Istio and Prometheus, ensuring minimal disruption within financial institution constraints.

Led the effort to deploy and improve Kubernetes platforms across multiple cloud providers, including AWS, Oracle Cloud, Google Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, and Azure. Focused on enhancing multi-cloud Kubernetes infrastructure and operations.

Assisted in completing a complex migration automation project on AWS, Kubernetes, and Helm with Jenkins and Concourse-ci. Developed custom orchestration services for Kubernetes and microservices for AWS Lambda using Go.

Built and led a DevOps team, setting group strategy, standards, and best practices. Modernized multiple services by migrating monoliths to microservice architectures on Kubernetes and AWS cloud, emphasizing automation and CI/CD.

Shaped cloud strategy and led commonality-driven engineering efforts, overseeing 15 different projects and line managing 15 cloud engineers. Championed migration to a modern Kubernetes platform to improve delivery times and capability.

Modernized a critical system to a greenfield fully serverless AWS architecture using Lambda, DynamoDB, and Go for massive concurrency. Designed and deployed a Kubernetes HA cluster on shared infrastructure with Terraform and created CI/CD service deployment pipelines.

Automated cost calculation, monitoring, and maintenance for large-scale public cloud deployments, including end-to-end Windows 2012R2 automation. Conducted a PoC for Docker containers in Kubernetes and integrated OpenStack with Netscaler load balancers.

Managed infrastructure for 100+ servers using Puppet, overseeing 2 Senior System Engineers and consulting R&D teams. Spearheaded migration to a new fully redundant and scalable SaaS infrastructure, ensuring compliance with strict SLAs and implementing DRP and ISMP.

Designed and developed a wireless network for a university campus, implementing a unified authentication solution. Utilized OpenLDAP, FreeRadius, WPA2 Enterprise, OpenWRT APs, and PHP for the project.

Created a platform for asynchronous tele-education content using PHP and Real Helix Server. Administered and maintained the necessary servers to run the platform effectively.

Responsible for main and secondary web servers running LAMP and Solaris 10 environments. Managed server expansion, security procedures, and improved services like OpenLDAP, Samba, NFS, OpenBSD PF firewall, and VLAN routing.

Led the design and implementation of a Content Management System for the GUNET E-class Platform. Managed a small group of two developers, utilizing PHP, MySQL, and XML technologies.

Currently pursuing an MPhil/PhD as a part-time candidate at Birkbeck College, University of London. The program started in 2012 and is ongoing.

Grade: Merit

Activities and societies: MSc Dissertation Project, “Design and implementation of a Service Oriented Architecture for Lifelong learning in JAVA EE”

Completed a Master of Science in Web Information Management at Birkbeck, University of London, School of Computer Science. Graduated with Merit after completing the one-year program.

Grade: 8.13 out of 10

Activities and societies: Diploma Thesis, “Design and implementation of an open source router with the use of OpenBSD as a platform basis and the creation of a management application with the use of AJAX and PHP technologies”

Graduated as an Engineer of Informatics and Computer Technology from the Technological Educational Institute of Lamia. Ranked 1st in class with a grade of 8.13 out of 10, completing the program within the normal four-year duration.