ABDELRAHMAN KAMEL
*****@*******.***
http://www.github.com/akamel001
EDUCATION
Cornell University 2011 - 2012
Masters, Computer Science
CSUSB 2007 - 2010
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
EXPER IENCE
SHIFT.com 02 / 2014 - Present
Lead DevOps Engineer
Developed and maintained a scalable python platform that utilizes flask and Celery. Also Helped maintain and
distributed load on our back-end Cassandra cluster that is highly fault tolerant by design. The platform currently
handles 100k+ Reads per second a can scale accordingly. Our tech stack utilizes Jenkins/Buildbot, Logstash &
Elasticsearch, Also automated with fabric the provisioning of new instances along with VPC's in amazon. Our
infrastructure is housed entirely in Amazon (EC2 / VPC's).
AXS.com 02 / 2013 - 07 / 2014
Sr. DevOps / Systems Engineer
Help develop and support a fast, available and scalable infrastructure that powers axs.com. Managed system to the
service level, and worked closely with the internal development and big data teams. Develop a large scale, high traffic
24/7 production environments that utilizes Symfony, PostgreSQL, Redis, Solr / Elasticsearch, node.js, python, Cloudera
/ Hadoop, and Jenkins. The stack is currently housed in Amazon (EC2 / VPC) and in the process of being migrated to
our own datacenter.
Square Enix 09 / 2012 - 02 / 2013
Cloud Automation Engineer
Developed a platform to help automate the development of games in a pipeline fashion. The platform also housed an
API used by many developers. Games ranged from mobile phones to facebook games. Similar to Zinga's platform.
Technologies used were Tomcat for the API, Joyent as the cloud provider, Unity 3d, Jenkins for build Automation, SVN
for all the developers to check in code, and puppet for configuration management.
Intel Corporation 05 / 2012 - 09 / 2012
Validation Engineer
Design, scale, and managed a cloud-based infrastructure. Specifically, helped scale our storage and processing systems
to handle the exponential growth of data. Also created a series of stress tests that utilize this hybrid cloud
infrastructure.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory 01 / 2011 - 08 / 2011
Tracking Specialist
Develop scripts in PERL and shell to assist in mission tracking on Solaris. Also created programs that help monitored
the performance of Deep Space Network ground tracking stations for Telemetry, AZ/EL tracking, Commanding, VLBI &
Radio Science activities
JPL (NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory) 01 / 2009 - 01 / 2011
Lead Space Operations Engineer
WR Grace 06 / 2005 - 11 / 2009
System Administrator
Created and administrated a network of workstations. Developed scripts to help backup sensitive data and automated
tasks.
SK ILLS
Perl Apache Python
Linux Distributed Systems Hadoop
Amazon Web Services (AWS) PostgreSQL Puppet
MongoDB Nagios Jenkins
Tomcat Ganglia Nginx
Symfony Solr Redis
HAProxy Buildbot Cassandra
SaltStack Github Rackspace Cloud
Logstash Chef Shell Scripting
ElasticSearch