Abdelsalam Shiblack

Spark is a telecommunications and digital services provider. As a DevOps Engineer my role is to provide technical and operational expertise, taking full ownership and responsibility for production software applications. Overlooking the SDLC end to end for delivering new application projects. Building Springboot using Postgres containerized microservices, integrated with Camunda workflow engine, hosted on OpenShift on-premises and AWS cloud, managed using Helm, through CI CD build and deployment pipelines on Microsoft Azure DevOps. Configured Grafana dashboards to monitor performance and setup alerts for being on-call. Leading the DevOps team providing technical guidance, communicating to external teams and stakeholders, ensuring expected compliance and organizational policies are met, with implementing DevOps best practices. Projects worked on:
• Mobile provisioning replacement application.
• Worked within the development team to deliver billing event orchestrator and number portability applications.
• Pre-Order fibre availability application.
• Skinny recurring discounts project.
• Delphix database management product.

The Warehouse Group is the parent brand that owns and supports The Warehouse, Warehouse Stationery, Noel Leeming, Torpedo7, TheMarket and One Day. As an integration engineer my role is to maintain and create new microservices using Java Spring Boot applications following Golden Path template and complying with standard data exchange models. To deliver customer facing solutions, using modern technologies following pub/sub and on-demand integration patterns. Technology stack used on daily bases include Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Postgres, AWS Gateway, Azure APIM, Jenkins to create microservices providing REST interfaces to integrate with various systems. Projects worked on:
Abdelsalam Shiblack

• Group Gift Cards project building integration layer solution, to handle payment transactions.
• Group Loyalty program, integrating with Eagle Eye rewards program.
• Developed loyalty Apple & Google digital wallet - Loyalty pass.
Abdelsalam Shiblack

Hansen Technologies is a software provider for utilities, energy and telecommunication companies, with clients in 80+ countries, serving 62 million end-customers. My role responsibilities as a Software Engineer include analysis, development, manual and automated testing, estimation and quotation, deployment and delivery, software documentation as well as technical consultation to clients, clarification and requirement gathering, across all stages of the software development lifecycle in Agile environment. Worked within multiple teams at Hansen, working on the following areas:
• Build new and maintain existing functionalities and APIs using Java and Oracle DB.
• DevOps engineer within the Agile team, responsible for CI CD using Jenkins.
• Write and maintain various Linux based tools and scripts in Perl, Bash and Python.
• Infrastructure support to existing and new deployments for technology stack upgrades.
• Deploy the application in a multi-tier environment, configured behind a load balancer.
• Write technical design solution specifications and review software modifications.
• Designed an automated end-to-end smoke test framework, using Selenium and Cucumber.
• Maintained existing REST/SOAP integration layer solution.
• Write new internal Tomcat projects like Jira / Git integration services.
• Develop new and maintain Selenium and JUnit automated tests.
• Upskill new hires and provide training programes. Projects worked on:
• Building a new REST integration framework layer with Spring Security.
• Direct Debit performance enhancement, providing a multi-threaded solution.
• Internal automated smoke test end-to-end testing framework using Cucumber.
• Xcel Energy complex-billing, integrating two billing products.
• Xcel AMI for moving utility customers to smart meters through web services.
• Oracle Database Archive and Purge solution, to reduce the size and increase performance.

I worked at IBM within BPM Business Process Management team, working on projects for Westpac. Worked on GTS project, providing the business with a process workflow management system. Tasks included: database design and management, server-side and user-interface development. The development was carried out in Java, Javascript, HTML, CSS and BPM business logic modelling tool. Was also responsible for training new hires, ensuring they get up to speed.