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   Bespin Global MEA (an e& enterprise company)

   Current Abu Dhabi, UAE

   Managed Services Cloud Engineer

   Dec 2023 — Present

   • Designed high-availability AWS architectures for 30+ enterprise customers across the UAE and KSA (EC2, EKS, Lambda, RDS, ALB/NLB), built with Terraform.
   • Reduced annual cloud spend by 25–35% through rightsizing, workload modernisation, Savings Plans and cost governance.
   • Led migration and modernisation programmes that cut operational overhead by 30% and improved reliability for critical workloads.
   • Run production Amazon EKS across dozens of clusters — version and Karpenter upgrades, ALB migrations and cross-account access.
   • Built a serverless, infrastructure-as-code patching solution for 200+ instances (Step Functions, Lambda, SSM, EventBridge) with automated compliance reporting.
   • Strengthened backup and DR with multi-AZ designs, regular DR exercises and monitoring in Datadog and New Relic.
   • Mentor engineers and partner with architects and security teams, following the AWS Well-Architected Framework. Won the Customer Impact Award (2025).

   Managed Services Cloud Associate

   Jun 2022 — Dec 2023

   • Monitored client servers and applications, diagnosing and resolving alerts within SLA.
   • Triaged, tracked and escalated incidents through Jira ITSM and maintained the knowledge base.
   • Delivered monthly service reports and proactive client follow-ups after each resolution.
2. 

   Tatweer LLC

   Damascus, Syria

   DevOps Engineer

   Feb 2021 — Dec 2021

   • Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines for Linux and Windows deployments (Git, Docker, GitLab CI/CD).
   • Automated infrastructure provisioning and application deployment with Ansible and Bash.
   • Ran Linux/Windows servers, MySQL, Oracle and MongoDB databases and VMware, with Zabbix monitoring and HAProxy load balancing.
3. 

   SCS — Syrian Computer Society

   Damascus, Syria

   System Administrator

   Mar 2019 — Feb 2020

   • Administered Linux mail, DNS and web servers on VMware ESXi and Virtuozzo, monitored with PRTG.
   • Kept high-traffic public exam-results sites online under peak load.
4. 

   Bitakat ISP

   Damascus, Syria

   System and Network Administrator

   Jun 2018 — Mar 2022

   • Administered ISP network infrastructure (MikroTik and Cisco routers, switches and firewalls) and ADSL services.
   • Deployed and operated the ISP's mail, DNS, VPN and web services and its MySQL database.

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Serverless2026

Hermes

Run your AWS account from a Telegram chat

A personal AWS assistant: send plain-English messages to a Telegram bot and Claude translates them into real AWS API calls — with confirmation guards for anything destructive. Fully serverless, ~$0.20/month.

AWS LambdaLambda Function URLAmazon DynamoDBClaude Haiku 4.5 (tool use)+3

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AI2026

ModelDrift

Automated storytelling that makes AI, cloud & DevOps click

An automated YouTube studio that turns dense AI, cloud and DevOps topics into clear, long-form stories — researching, scripting, narrating, generating visuals, assembling and publishing with barely a hand on the wheel.

AWS EC2n8nPostgreSQLffmpeg+6

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Infrastructure2026

Portus

One-click SSM, RDP & database tunnels into AWS — no bastions, no open ports

A cross-platform desktop app (Electron, MIT) that authenticates to AWS, lists your EC2 instances, and opens a Systems Manager shell, an RDP-over-SSM tunnel or a database tunnel to any box — even reaching private EKS API endpoints through the VPC, with zero inbound ports, no bastion hosts and no manual CLI.

Electron 37electron-builderAWS SDK v3 (EC2)AWS Systems Manager (SSM)+4

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Infrastructure2025

AWS Patching Automation

Scheduled, compliant patching with zero manual steps

A CloudFormation-deployed patching solution: Step Functions orchestrate SSM patch scans and installs across tagged patch groups, on independent EventBridge schedules, with SNS alerts and S3 compliance reports.

AWS CloudFormationAWS Step FunctionsAWS LambdaAWS Systems Manager (SSM)+4

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