Ahmed AbouZaid!

Ahmed AbouZaid!

Solutions Architect with Agility | M.Sc. in Data | Cloud-Native at Core | DevOps Transformation Advisor and Mentor!

  • A passionate Solutions Architect DevOps Engineer based in Berlin/Germany, have lived on 3 continents, visited 19+ countries, and I’m still learning!
  • With 17+ years of open-source contributions, 14+ years of professional hands-on experience in DevOps, and an M.Sc. in Data Engineering from Edinburgh Napier University (UK), I enjoy facilitating the growth of both businesses and individuals.
  • I specialize in Cloud-Native and Kubernetes. I’m also a Free/Open source advocate and book author. My favorite topics are DevOps transformation, DevSecOps, automation, data, and metrics.
  • Besides hands-on experience, I hold/held a couple of professional certificates like CKS, CKA, CKAD, AWS SAA, AWS SOA, RHCE, and RHCSA.
  • Also published a double-blind peer-reviewed research paper on Springer Nature’s journal and creator of the Dynamic DevOps Roadmap.
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๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป More about me
๐Ÿ“ Blog Posts

I enjoy writing about tech, here are some featured ones.

Your DevOps learning roadmap is broken! - Career
3 ways to customize Helm charts with Kustomize - Kubernetes
Validate, format, lint, secure, and test Terraform IaC - CI/CD
DevOps, J-Curve, and change management - Agile
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๐Ÿ“ Projects and Initiatives

Consistently, I contribute to open-source projects or develop my own. Here are some featured ones.

[AR|EN] Awesome Arabic Speakers
[EN] Dynamic DevOps Roadmap
[EN] Awesome Kustomize
[AR] LibreBooks.Org
[Go] KubeZero
[Go] Kustomize Merger
[Bash] ASDF Plugin Manager
[Bash] Kubech CLI
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โบ Tech Talks

Occasionally, I make sessions and tech talks. Here are some featured ones.

[AR] Platform Engineering: Manage your infrastructure using Kubernetes and Crossplane
[EN] Kubernetes Security Best Practices with tips for the CKS exam
[EN] Docker Best Practices Workshop
[EN] Kubernetes Requests and Limits
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๐Ÿ“š Publications

Over the years, I have published several books and research in Arabic and English. Here are some featured ones.

[EN][Research Paper] Modern Big Data Platform
[AR][Book] Free Open Source Guide
[AR][Book] Simply Ubuntu
[AR][Research] Alternative Energy
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๐Ÿ› ๏ธ Main toolkit
Amazon Web Services - AWS Google Cloud Platform - GCP Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift Digital Ocean
Kubernetes Helm Kustomize Argo CD Crossplane Docker Go Python Prometheus Vault HashiCorp Terraform Ansible Jenkins GitHub Actions Bash Linux
โณ Timeline

A timeline of my personal public activities and highlights over the past years.

Note: The articles listed here are only the highlights; the rest of the posts could be found at tech.aabouzaid.com. Additionally, my professional work-related activities, such as promotions and career ladder, are also not included here; please refer to my LinkedIn profile for details.

2025

  • Article: Tech and career posts

    Highlights of tech and career posts I wrote this year:

  • Academic: Building a Modern Data Platform for the Artificial Intelligence Era

    Post on Springer Nature Research Communities
    Published post on Springer Nature Research Communities about my paper in the data domain.

  • Academic: Building a modern data platform based on the data lakehouse architecture and cloud-native ecosystem

    Peer-Reviewed Research Paper on Springer Nature
    Published a peer-reviewed research paper on Springer Nature about Modern Data Platform blueprint using DataOps, Kubernetes, and the Cloud-Native ecosystem for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.

  • Award: Maysam Honorary Award

    Issued by Saudi Programmers Association (Parmej)
    Received the Maysam Honorary Award, presented by the Saudi Programmers Association (Parmej). The award honors individuals, organizations, and communities that promote open-source technologies in Saudi Arabia and the region.

  • Session: How Open Source Helped Me Step Up My DevOps Career

    Saudi Open Source Summit 2025
    Presented a session titled How Open Source Helped Me Step Up My DevOps Career and participate in open source.

  • Podcast: How to start your DevOps career in 2025

    Presented as a guest on a tech podcast, discussing the Dynamic DevOps Roadmap I created to help people start a career in DevOps.

2024

2023

  • Article: Tech and career posts

    Highlights of tech and career posts I wrote this year:

  • Initiative: The Dynamic DevOps Roadmap

    DevOpsRoadmap.io
    Created Dynamic DevOps Roadmap, a FREE pragmatic DevOps learning to kickstart your DevOps career in the Cloud Native era following the Agile MVP style! A DevOps Engineer or Software Engineer, this roadmap is all that you need to start, grow, and expand!

  • Session: Platform Engineering - Manage your infrastructure using Kubernetes and Crossplane

    JobStack 2023
    Presented as a speaker at JobStack 2023, the largest tech community in the Middle East & Africa.

  • Session: DevOps Circle - DevOps is not only a culture!

    JobStack 2023
    Presented as a speaker at JobStack 2023, the largest tech community in the Middle East & Africa.

  • Code: Kustomize Merger Plugin

    Golang plugin for Kustomize
    Developed a Kustomize plugin generating manifests seamlessly by extending Kustomize merge strategies (schemaless StrategicMerge).

  • Code: ASDF Plugin Manager

    Security plugin for asdf version manager
    Developed a plugin allows you to pin asdf plugin info like Git URL and ref for security and integrity.

  • Academic: Master of Science with Distinction in Data Engineering

    Edinburgh Napier University, UK
    Received my master’s degree from Edinburgh Napier University, in the UK. My dissertation builds a proof of concept for the core of Modern Data Platform using DataOps, Kubernetes, and Cloud-Native ecosystem to build a resilient Big Data platform based on Data Lakehouse architecture, which is the basis for Machine Learning (MLOps) and Artificial Intelligence (AIOps).

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

  • Article: Tech and career posts

    Highlights of tech and career posts I wrote this year:

  • Code: Terraform external data source for SaltStack Pillar

    Python tool links between Terraform and SaltStack
    Python tool to read from SaltStack Pillar, and return the value in Terraform as external data source.

  • Code: Flume metrics collector

    Golang plugin links between InfluxDB Telegraf and Apache Flume
    Golang plugin of InfluxDB Telegraf to collect Apache Flume metrics.

2017

  • Article: Tech and career posts

    Highlights of tech and career posts I wrote this year:

  • Session: Developing Ansible Dynamic Inventory Script

    Ansible Berlin Meetup
    Conducted a session part of Ansible Berlin Meetup about my experience with writing an external inventory script from scratch for Netbox (IPAM and DCIM tool from DigitalOcean network engineering team).

  • Session: Introduction to InfluxDB and TICK Stack

    CrossEngage Academy
    Conducted a session part of CrossEngage Academy meetup about my experience with InfluxDB and TICK Stack.

  • Misc: Flink Forward 2017

    Berlin
    Contributed to the Apache “Flink Forward” conference as a member of the organizing team.

  • Code: Ansible module for Netbox dynamic inventory

    Python module links between Ansible and Netbox
    Python Ansible module to query Netbox as a dynamic inventory source.

2016

2015

  • Article: Tech and career posts

    Highlights of tech and career posts I wrote this year:

  • Session: Getting Started with Ansible

    Developer Enablement TechTalk
    Conducted a TechTalk about Ansible at eScape to start adopting DevOps culture and practices starting with the configuration management.

  • Session: Why Open-Source Software?

    Re-Learn Workshops, American University in Cairo (AUC)
    Presented as a speaker at Re-Learn Workshops, American University in Cairo, about Open-Source Software adoption.

2014

  • Award: Best Arabic Websites Contest, First Prize

    Issued by IMA Committee
    I received first prize as the founder and representative of the Free/Open-Source Arabic Books project, which hosted over 50 books and produced 5 books. This project aims to encourage and enhance Arabic content.

  • Session: Discover Creative Commons Licenses

    Bibliotheca Alexandrina
    Presented as a speaker at Bibliotheca Alexandrina, as a participant of the team, translated the Creative Commons Licenses.

2013

  • Session: Free as in Freedom

    Mozilla Power '13, British University in Egypt (BUE)
    Presented as a speaker at Mozilla Power ‘13 part of the Mozilla Egypt team activities.

  • Session: Why Ubuntu Linux?

    MIG, Modern Academy for Engineering and Technology
    Presented as a speaker part of the MIG workshops in Modern Academy, about Ubuntu Linux adoption.

  • Session: Why Open-Source Software?

    CAT Reloaded, Mansoura University
    Presented as a speaker part of the CAT Reloaded workshops in Mansoura University, about Open-Source Software adoption.

  • Book: Free and Open Source Guide, 3rd Edition

    FreeOpenSourceGuide.com
    An author of an Arabic book introduces Free and Open-source software and lists famous applications to use.

  • Initiative: Free/Open Source Books Website

    LibreBooks.org

    Founded LibreBooks.Org, an initiative that aims to encourage and enhance the Arabic content and support initiatives like Access to Knowledge, Open Access, Creative Commons. Additionally, the project supports people in starting to create Free and Open books.

    Hence, as part of the project, I designed and formatted the layout of 5 open-content books, one of them is “Creative Commons User Guide” and also an infographic titled “Learn About Creative Commons”.

  • Award: Official Ubuntu Membership

    Issued by Canonical
    An official recognition of significant and sustained contribution to the Ubuntu Linux community and ecosystem.

2012

  • Article: Five Reasons Why Open-Source Is a Priority for Arab Countries

    Lughat Al-Asr, by Al-Ahram Journal
    An article in the most famous tech magazine in Egypt, โ€œLughat Al-Asrโ€ (Language of the Age) by Al-Ahram Journal.

2011

  • Book: Simply Ubuntu, 2nd Edition

    SimplyUbuntu.com
    An author of the most famous Arabic book for end-users to adopt Ubuntu for daily use (Over 250,000 downloads, last check 2016).

2004-2010

  • Award: Scientific Research Competition, Third Place

    Issued by Cairo University
    A leader of a research group to win 3rd place in Cairo University’s Scientific Research Competition 2010. Topic: Alternative energy.

  • Misc: Multiple Activities

    During high school and university, I started to discover the tech world in depth. I jumped between multiple topics and activities, such as:

    • Authored the first versions of my books Simply Ubuntu and Free and Open Source Guide.
    • Participated in the Ubuntu-EG LoCo team and other open-soruce activities like Windows 7 Sins and Upgrade from Windows by Free Software Foundation.
    • Started to use Linux as a primary operating system (since 2007 until today!).
    • Translated many open content from English to Arabic (Localization).
    • Wrote many general and technical articles (Technical Writing).
    • Learned advanced Arabic calligraphy (Naskh, Reqaa, and Diwani).


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