Mohamed Hamzawi

I'm passionate and results-driven IT professional with a strong academic background, holding an MSc with Merit in ITM (Business Intelligence) from the British University in Dubai. Besides, an enough of hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and SRE, demonstrated by my AWS certifications as a Solution Architect and Developer, as well as Redhat certifications (SA, E, VA).
Key Skills and Expertise:

Skills:
- UAE Golden Visa Holder
- Cloud Architecture: I specialize in designing secure, scalable, and highly available cloud infrastructures on AWS.
- Automation: I actively manage, build, and maintain operational tools for AWS infrastructure and systems.
- CI/CD: I create and maintain fully automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment, including Docker containerization.
- Monitoring and Alerting: Experienced in implementing and improving monitoring and alerting systems.
- Release Management: I handle releases throughout all deployment stages up to production.
- Collaboration: I collaborate closely with software engineering teams to define infrastructure and deployment requirements.
- Technical Competencies: Strong technical competencies in LAMP (PHP, MySQL, Apache), Tomcat, Java, web technologies (Haproxy, Nginx, content caching, website hardening), version control systems (GIT, GitHub, Bitbucket, CodeCommit), monitoring tools (Nagios, Zenoss, Site24x7, New Relic, Grafana, Splunk), log parsing and analysis (ELK - Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), virtualization (RHCVA using RHEV, KVM, VMware, Ovirt, Hyper-V), and programming (Shell scripting, Java, Python).

• AWS Certified Solution Architect
• AWS Certified Developer
• Redhat Certified (SA, E, VA)
• Design cloud infrastructure that is secure, scalable, and highly available on AWS.
• Ensuring availability, performance, security, and scalability of AWS production systems.
• Actively manage, Build and maintain operational tools for deployment, monitoring, and analysis of AWS infrastructure and systems, and monitor cloud infrastructure on AWS including patches and scaling.
• Provision, configure and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure defined as code
• Create and maintain fully automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment
• Build and deploy Docker containers to break up monolithic application into microservices
• Using Rancher to deploy, manage and secure Kubernetes deployment.
• Releases Management during all deployment stages till the production.
• Install and configure solutions, implement reusable components, translate technical requirements, assist with all deployment stages.
• Work collaboratively with software engineering to define infrastructure and deployment requirements
• Collaborating with developers team (iOS/Android) to manage the application releases on (AppStore/PlayStore)
• Strong Technical competency with LAMP (PHP, MySQL, Apache), Tomcat and Java
• Web technologies (Haproxy, Nginx, Content caching and Website hardening)
• Version control system (GIT, GitHub, Bitbucket and CodeCommit).
• Monitoring tools (Nagios, Zenoss, Site24x7, New Relic, Grafana and Splunk)
• Log parsing and analysis using (ELK) Elastic search, Logstash and Kibana.
• Virtualization (RHCVA using RHEV 3.5, KVM, VMware, Ovirt and Hypre-V)
• Programming (Shell scripting, Java and Python)

1. Level two support
2. Responsible for a linux environment servers
3. Clouding on Amazon and Rackspace ( 40 Clouding Instances )
4. Perform all administration tasks begin with monitoring, troubleshooting and fixing
5. Research and development with the opensource solutions and customize for our business needs
6. Responsible for system administration tasks on :
• DawriPlus (www.dawriplus.com) : Monitoring - Deployment - Managing - Support with dev. Team
• Invision (www.invision.com.sa) : Monitoring - Deployment - Managing - Support with dev. team
• I6 Services (ihub) Charging system for STC: Monitoring - Managing - Deployment
• Dokany (www.dokany.me): Monitoring - Managing - Deployment.
• Afkar (www.afkar.me): Monitoring - Managing - Deployment.
• Khairna (www.khairna.org) : Monitoring - Deployment - Managing
• Intigral website (www.intigral.net): Monitoring - Managing - Deployment.

Implementation experience and Projects:

1.Dawiplus (www.dawriplus.com)
Dawri Plus Live is MENA’s first multi-screen platform that puts users at the center of the game using cutting edge features and technology. Specifically developed to enable and activate exclusive rights to the Saudi Professional League digital video content, the platform allows users to live stream and replay the League’s matches within a completely interactive and socially connected application.
2.Invision(http://invision.com.sa)
• Interactive TV developed and managed by Intigral for STC
• We provide Saudi Telecom Company (STC) with an IPTV/OTT advanced interactive TV service. The multi-screen service delivers video content including live TV, catch-up and Video On Demand (VOD) and Premium VOD using internet protocol.
3.Ihub(Charging System)
• Intigral Hub (iHub) is a full service solution enabling digital providers and merchants to grow their businesses through billing, insight and analytics; while providing convenient and secure electronic and mobile payment options for end consumers.
4.Dokany (Dokany.me)
• Dokany is our premium web/WAP portal developed with the end consumer in mind. Offering a choice of popular mobile content across multiple genres including sports, news, health, games, charity, religion and more, the portal is dynamic and fresh, with a clean and engaging User Interface with regularly updated mobile content at attractive rates.
5.Afkar (Afkar.me)
• MENA’s full spectrum digital startup incubator. We established Afkar.me as a platform to recruit select and groomed entrepreneur with unique digital ideas. Our vision is to enable the MENA’s innovative spirit by improving the quality and the viability of the start-ups.
6.Redhat Virtualization: Create development and staging environment based on RHEVM platform.

Governmental Position ... i got this position due to my advance rank on my college.

Kenanaonline Portals ( www.kenanaonline.com )
• Perform administration tasks for Kenanaonline portals such as backup, monitoring, reporting, updates and etc.
Egypt Telecentre Academy ( www.telecentreacademy.org.eg )
• Full administration for Egypt Telecentre academy web site.
• Monitoring and performing Updates tasks using GIT tools as version Control System.
Backup Solutions
• Research and development for Backup solutions such as (FreeNas - Amanda)
• Configure Snap server to work as Backup Server.
• Responsible for Backup process.
Virtualization Concept using VMware solution:
• Research and development for virtualization concept
• Leverage our resources and provide economies of scale using VMWARE server.
• Apply VMWare Server and create Machines due to achieve the best utilization of our resources.

Siwa Oasis Projects :
• Remote diagnosis System between siwa hospital and Elshatbi Alexanderia hospital
• Design labs for Siwa Smart Schools .