November 2019 - April 2024 (4 years and 5 months)
London, United Kingdom
• leantech.me is the leading open banking provider in the middle east and north africa. First company hire
• Critical cloud infrastructure management using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform).
• Managed at least 8 cloud infrastructure migrations that could have impacted 250,000+ users, all with an aggregate of 0 unplanned downtime.
• Maintained >99.9% uptime SLA of Data & Payment APIs in the UAE and KSA for over 2 years (2021 -
2023)
• Automation of infrastructure services, using GitOps (ArgoCD), such as Redis, Vault, Kafka, MongoDB, Nginx. This created an environment where engineers could self-serve their infrastructure requests
• Removed internal requests (at least 5 a week) to the DevOps engineers to manually modify the infrastructure (database creation / r+w access) by creating a security compliant solution (SSO +
approvals + audit trails)
• Securit y infrastructure setup and administration, such as a PKI setup for mTLS Authentication or a company wide SIEM/XDR
• Participated in several high profile security audits that helped certify the company ISO 127001