Mustapha Abella
@mustaphaabella
Senior Technical Support Engineer specializing in platform reliability, incident response, and REST/API troubleshooting for SaaS environments.
What I'm looking for
I’m a Senior Technical Support Engineer with 10+ years leading complex SaaS escalations, production incident response, and API troubleshooting across global enterprise environments. I’m known for turning noisy symptoms into precise fixes through strong operational diagnostics and deep technical ownership.
My core strength is root cause analysis supported by SQL validation, log analysis, and telemetry review—especially when systems span APIs, databases, integrations, authentication, and reporting pipelines. I debug REST APIs and webhooks with tools like Postman/curl/Charles Proxy, and I validate environment and service behavior across cloud-connected, containerized, and on-prem setups.
I operate as the technical bridge between Support, Engineering, Product, and Infrastructure—driving permanent fixes, improving operational workflows, and reducing recurring incident patterns. I also leverage AI-native tooling (Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and LLM-assisted debugging) to accelerate investigation, RCA development, troubleshooting automation, and operational analysis.
In customer-facing work, I support high-priority enterprise environments across EMEA, APAC, and the Americas in multilingual settings, while owning SLA expectations and building troubleshooting guides and runbooks. I bring a reliability mindset: reproduce the issue, isolate the failure domain, and deliver actionable outcomes that engineering teams can implement quickly.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Software Test Specialist
Genetec
Jul 2025 - Present (11 months)
Validated REST endpoint correctness and data accuracy with Postman across distributed environments, preventing integration defects before release. Monitored Azure CI/CD pipelines for failures and improved cross-functional QA handoffs by writing acceptance criteria and using GitHub Copilot to speed test authoring.
Implementation Engineer
PowerFactors
Aug 2024 - Jul 2025 (11 months)
Delivered enterprise onboarding under SLA by validating API integrations via Postman and resolving configuration failures before go-live. Established secure IPSEC tunnels and validated renewable-energy telemetry mappings against technical specifications.
Support Analyst
Sentry Software
Jan 2024 - Jul 2024 (6 months)
Resolved complex REST API and platform issues using deep troubleshooting, log analysis, and reproduction workflows. Investigated infrastructure monitoring and reliability problems and created operational troubleshooting documentation and knowledge resources.
Global Support Engineer
Qmatic
Jan 2014 - Dec 2023 (9 years 11 months)
Served as final escalation point for mission-critical enterprise SaaS and on-prem environments, leading production troubleshooting across APIs, SQL, authentication, and reporting platforms. Conducted root-cause investigations using logs, SQL queries, telemetry, and diagnostics, and produced guides and operational runbooks to prevent recurring incidents.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Nova Southeastern University
Computer Science
Completed coursework in Computer Science at Nova Southeastern University.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
Portfolio
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Skills
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