ghada abu shawish, Senior Cloud Engineer and Scrum Master

ghada abu shawish

Senior Cloud Engineer and Scrum Master

Salinaitllc

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science and Engineering
Experience
9 years, 11 Months

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Total years of experience :9 years, 11 Months

Senior Cloud Engineer and Scrum Master at Salinaitllc
  • United Arab Emirates - Ajman
  • My current job since October 2022

On-site
- Senior Cloud Engineer & Accomplished Scrum Master: Leading with expertise in both roles at Salinaitllc, driving precision-focused transformative initiatives.

-Strategic Office 365 Setup & Optimization: Orchestrated seamless setup of Office 365, elevating collaboration and organization-wide productivity.

-Azure DevOps and DevSecOps Implementation: Architected and executed robust DevOps practices in Azure, streamlining workflows, and expediting deployment.

- Cloud Solution Reliability Enhancement: Leveraged in-depth knowledge of Database Administration, Azure DevOps Services, Git, and Azure Portal to ensure highly reliable and efficient cloud-based solutions.

- Production Releases Oversight: Spearheaded end-to-end oversight of production releases, executing rigorous testing, and ensuring seamless, timely, and flawless deployments.

- Agile-Driven Scrum Mastery: As an Agile-minded Scrum Master, fostered a culture of collaboration and innovation, guiding teams toward successful project outcomes.

- Continuous Improvement Advocate: Committed to a culture of excellence, consistently delivering high-quality software and cloud solutions through continuous enhancement.

- Synthesizing Expertise & Project Management: Driven by the opportunity to synergize technical prowess with project management excellence, catalyzing impactful changes for elevated team performance and organizational success.

- Senior Cloud Engineer & Accomplished Scrum Master: Leading with expertise in both roles at Salinaitllc, driving precision-focused transformative initiatives.

-Strategic Office 365 Setup & Optimization: Orchestrated seamless setup of Office 365, elevating collaboration and organization-wide productivity. -Azure DevOps and DevSecOps Implementation: Architected and executed robust DevOps practices in Azure, streamlining workflows, and expediting deployment.

- Cloud Solution Reliability Enhancement: Leveraged in-depth knowledge of Database Administration, Azure DevOps Services, Git, and Azure Portal to ensure highly reliable and efficient cloud-based solutions.

- Production Releases Oversight: Spearheaded end-to-end oversight of production releases, executing rigorous testing, and ensuring seamless, timely, and flawless deployments.

- Agile-Driven Scrum Mastery: As an Agile-minded Scrum Master, fostered a culture of collaboration and innovation, guiding teams toward successful project outcomes.

- Continuous Improvement Advocate: Committed to a culture of excellence, consistently delivering high-quality software and cloud solutions through continuous enhancement.

- Synthesizing Expertise & Project Management: Driven by the opportunity to synergize technical prowess with project management excellence, catalyzing impactful changes for elevated team performance and organizational success.


Skills: Cloud Migration · Cloud Application Analysis · DevSecOps · Database Administration · Azure DevOps Services · Git · SQL · Scrum · Microsoft Azure

Session Lead - Cloud Developer using Microsoft Azure at Udacity
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • September 2022 to February 2023

• Develop and guide curriculum, lead live sessions, and mentor Azure development students.
• Provide hands-on Azure technical support, host mentoring sessions, and stay updated with platform advancements.
• Develop engaging Azure content, nurture a vibrant student community, and organize interactive events

Senior DevOps Engineer | Scrum Master | Cloud Application Analyst at Halza
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • June 2019 to January 2023

• Leading development and operations processes inside team
• Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and the team adheres
• to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines.
• Architecting and Implementing Azure Service Offering, such as Azure cloud services, Azure storage, Azure Active Directory (AD), Azure Active Directory Business to Customer (ADB2C), Azure Storage, Azure, Blob Storage, Azure VMs, SQL Database, Azure Functions, Azure Monitor, and Azure Service Bus.
• Implemented a CI/CD pipeline using Azure DevOps(VSTS, TFS)
• Experienced in working on DevOps /Agile operations process and tools area (Code review, unit test automation, Build & Release automation Environment, Incident and Change Management) including various tools.
• Web developing and performance maintaining.
• Guides and coaches the Scrum Team on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products and services to our customers.
• Works with Scrum Team, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and support organizational project or product teams.
• Acts as a leader who coaches and supports Agile team.
• Planning deliverables and helping teams monitor performance.
• Resolving issues that hinder the teams’ work.

Software Developer at INJAZAT INFORMATION SYSTEM IIS
  • United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
  • July 2017 to June 2019

• Design and develop systems manage customer
• service centers (Tasheel, Tawjeeh, Tadbeer, … etc. ).
• Developing and implementing Customer site visit Management Software.
• Developing and maintaining ticketing support system.
• Design and develop Account system
• Install, configure and maintaining web services
• CRM system.
• Localization/translation systems.
• Build Notification module - emails/SMS.
• Design and develop Task and Meating Management Software.
• Developing websites:
http://nabdemiratestadbeer.ae/
http://injazatuae.ae/
http://estemarat.ae/
• Analysis, manage development projects
• Software tester by performing Unit Testing methodology.
• Work through Waterfall and Agile product lifecycle.
• Preparation of training manuals for users

TEACHER ASSISTANT at Al Ghurair University
  • United Arab Emirates
  • January 2015 to January 2017

Helping Doctors create lesson plans particularly in the following courses:
•Software Engineering
•Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis
•Database Systems
•Working with small groups of students to enhance the learning process
•Making sure classrooms are safe and tidy
•Databases: MS SQL Server 2012, MySQL, Cosmos DB
•SDLC: Agile, Scrum, Waterfall
•Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment: TFS/VSTS IT HELP DESK & SOFTWARE TESTER

WEB DEVELOPER at Al Ghurair University
  • United Arab Emirates
  • January 2014 to January 2015

Effective member of software development team that was responsible for upgrading Al Ghurair University website \[https://agu.ae/\].

Education

Bachelor's degree, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science and Engineering
  • at Al Ghurair University
  • February 2017

Excelled academically during university, achieving an impressive 3.99 CGPA and earning the distinction of "bachelor with high distinction" in Computer Engineering. - Developed a unique and innovative graduation project: a prototype web-based application showcasing the potential of a computerized decision support system for prospective and current undergraduate students in UAE-based tertiary institutions. Technologies Applied in Graduation Project: - Proficiently employed PHP syntax, PHPMyAdmin, MySQL Select and Insert, Loops, Superglobals (GET, POST), and Associative Arrays. - Applied advanced text mining techniques, including Extraction, Tokenization, Stemming, Stop Word Removal, and Similarity Percentage. - Utilized the Agile software development method to ensure efficient and effective project execution.

Specialties & Skills

Web Design
Web Development
AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
MANAGEMENT
SQL (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE)
SCRUM (SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT)
ACTIVE DIRECTORY
CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION
ALGORITHM ANALYSIS
CODE REVIEW
AZURE ACTIVE DIRECTORY
COLLABORATION

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Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Native Speaker

Training and Certifications

AWS Knowledge: Cloud Essentials (Training)
Training Institute:
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Date Attended:
November 2023
Duration:
50 hours
Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2022
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2021
Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2020