K h a l e d A l k u r d i Cloud · DevOps · AI Engineer

1. 

   Bespin Global MEA (an e& enterprise company)

   Current Abu Dhabi, UAE

   MS Engineer — Cloud Operations Center

   Dec 2023 — Present

   • Design scalable, resilient AWS architectures and DR strategies across environments.
   • Build automation and CI/CD pipelines for repeatable, hands-off deployments.
   • Implement security, compliance and cost-optimization controls.
   • Author run-books and SOPs that streamline incident response.
   • Won the Customer Impact Award (Jul 2025).

   MS Associate — Cloud Operations Center

   Jun 2022 — Dec 2023

   • Monitored client servers and applications, diagnosing and resolving alerts within SLA.
   • Escalated and tracked incidents to resolution; produced monthly service reports.
2. 

   Tatweer LLC

   Damascus, Syria

   System Administrator — DevOps & SysAdmin

   Feb 2021 — Dec 2021

   • Built and maintained fully automated CI/CD pipelines (Git, Docker, GitLab CI/CD).
   • Administered Linux/Windows servers, databases, ESXi/VCSA and HAProxy load balancing.
   • Provisioned and deployed applications with Ansible.
3. 

   SCS — Syrian Computer Society

   Damascus, Syria

   System Administrator — System Operation

   Mar 2019 — Feb 2020

   • Ran Linux mail/DNS/web servers and ESXi virtualization.
   • Published high-traffic sites (national exam results) under heavy load.
4. 

   Bitakat ISP

   Damascus, Syria

   System & Network Administrator — NOC

   Jun 2018 — Mar 2022

   • Maintained a reliable, secure ISP network (MikroTik, Cisco routers/switches/firewalls).
   • Operated ISP services (Mail, DNS, VPN, Web) and monitored with PRTG.

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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

Secure SSM & RDP access to EC2 — no bastions, no open ports

A cross-platform desktop app (Electron) that authenticates to AWS with Azure AD SSO, lists your EC2 instances, and opens a Systems Manager shell or an RDP-over-SSM tunnel to any box — with zero inbound ports, no bastion hosts, and no manual CLI. Open source, MIT.

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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