Ali Abdo, Infrastructure Architect

Ali Abdo

Infrastructure Architect

IBM

Location
Egypt - Alexandria
Education
Master's degree, Information Technology
Experience
17 years, 0 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :17 years, 0 Months

Infrastructure Architect at IBM
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since March 2012

1- Etihad Airways (UAE)
2- CIB Bank (Egypt)
3- RTA “Road and Transport Authority” - (Dubai)
4- DHE "Download hosting environment" - (USA)

Main responsibilities
Design, implementation, administration and monitoring projects infrastructure.
Interfacing between vendors for code merging, merging the new code with updated applications and install it on servers.
Provide technical expertise for network/OS problems and vendors back-end.
Provide customer support for infrastructure related problems through customer support team.
Provide technical assistance for developers and other teams during all phases of projects.
Provide documentation with technical Details and infrastructure Diagrams.
Develop road-maps and standards for projects environments.
Migration, administration, troubleshooting, and support projects environments.
Provide technical assistant for network/OS problems and third party applications.
Communicate and work with people of all technical and non-technical levels in projects.

Senior System Engineer at Turbo-Smtp
  • United States - New York
  • December 2011 to December 2013

Planning, development, installation, administration, monitoring, troubleshooting, support and management of out-going SMTP cluster service (Linux, Qmail, Mysql, Apache, Nginx, Perl, php, Monitoring).
Support developers, customer support team and customers.

Unix/Linux instructor at Yat learning center
  • Egypt - Alexandria
  • July 2011 to November 2011

• Prepare LPI-c3 martial and study guide.
• Teaching LPI 301, 302, 303 courses.

Senior Linux system engineer at Silicon-Nile
  • Egypt - Alexandria
  • June 2010 to July 2011

Installation, administration and troubleshooting of :-
RHEL, Centos, Apache-Tomcat, Nginx, Ftp, MySQL, Postgres, postfix, DNS
service and Firewalls.
Design, Develop and install monitoring system using Nagios.
Support development teams.
Manage Data-center in Romania \[12 server with 40 vps\].
Manage jira account, mail accounts and basecamp.
Developing search engine using Hadoop, Nutch, solr and Lucene
Design and implement company infrastructure and network .
Lead the IT department.

Senior System Engineer at exa.com.sa
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • February 2009 to June 2010

• Installation, administration and troubleshooting of :-
RHEL and centos Os, apache, nginx, ftp, cpanel and whm, MySQL, exim, postfix, DNS service, Firewalls and SELinux.
• Design, Develop and install monitoring system for 90+ server using nagios.
• Helping technical support team to solve customer’s problems.
• Helping customers and solve technical problems.
• lead the technical support team.

Linux system engineer at thebetechnology.com
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2008 to February 2009

Installation and administration of :-
• VoIP and phone system solution based on Asterisk, Network cabling, routers, switches and access points and Mail server
• Data center \[over 8 Linux servers\].
• Web server, database server and Subversion server DNS, DHCP and gateway.
• VMware servers \[hosting multiple OS machines for testing team\].
• Video conferences and on-line meetings.
• Set-up New computers, and support developers.

System admin at gawab.com
  • Egypt - Alexandria
  • May 2007 to May 2008

• Preparing technical reports for Gawab servers and service.
• Ensuring quality of Gawab service, and servers' capacity.
• Providing technical advice to technical support team and developers.
• Analyze and Develop Gawab monitoring system (GMS) and testing tools; keep
the (GMS) up to date and make sure that the (GMS) cover all service
Install and configure in Gawab :-
● Nagios, Cacti (cluster monitoring tools).

Education

Master's degree, Information Technology
  • at Alexandria University
  • June 2005

Bachelor of Education Alexandria University 2005 graduate student & research Alexandria University).

Specialties & Skills

MySQL OS
Message Broker
Linux Server
Databases
linux - unix - aix
web server
WebSphere® Message Broker
WebSphere® MQ
linux Security
File System managment
Web Hosting
Networking
Scripting
Database
Accounts managment
JAVA Programming
Mail servers
Web Servers
Back-up and Recovery

Social Profiles

Languages

English
Expert

Training and Certifications

IBM certified system Administrator (Training)
Training Institute:
IBM
Date Attended:
February 2008
Duration:
160 hours
LPI (Training)
Training Institute:
LPI
Date Attended:
July 2008
Duration:
180 hours
IBM certified JAVA developer (Training)
Training Institute:
IBM
Date Attended:
June 2008
Duration:
120 hours
IBM certified Data base Administrator. (Training)
Training Institute:
IBM
Date Attended:
March 2008
Duration:
80 hours

Hobbies

  • World Record Holder - motorcycle adventure
    https://www.facebook.com/Around.egypt.on.motorcycle