Ahmed AbouZaid!
Product Engineering | M.Sc. in Data | Cloud-Native and DevOps Transformation Advisor and Mentor!
- A product-minded DevOps solutions specialist who loves data-driven decision-making, have lived on 3 continents, visited 19+ countries, and is always happy to keep learning!
- With 10+ years in the German/European market, 14+ years of professional hands-on experience, and 17+ years of open-source contributions, I enjoy facilitating the growth of both businesses and individuals.
- I specialize in Cloud-Native and Kubernetes, and my favorite topics are DevOps transformation, DevSecOps, automation, data, and metrics.
- I’m also a Free/Open source advocate, book author, and the creator of the “Dynamic DevOps Roadmap”.
- In addition, I hold an M.Sc. in Data Engineering from Edinburgh Napier University (UK), and I have published a double-masked peer-reviewed research paper in Springer Natureโs journal.
- Besides hands-on experience, I hold/held a couple of professional certificates like CKS, CKA, CKAD, AWS SAA, AWS SOA, RHCE, and RHCSA.
๐จโ๐ป More about me
- ๐ค Interested in Career Growth, Agile, DevOps, Cloud, Kubernetes, Containers, CI/CD, Automation
- ๐ฑ Founder of SAHABA:AI, DevOps Hive, and KubeZero, and creator of the Dynamic DevOps Roadmap.
- ๐ Regularly write articles on my Tech Blog.
- ๐ก My talks and sessions are available on Tech Talks.
- ๐๏ธ More about my professional experiences on LinkedIn.
- ๐ Created curated lists for Awesome Kustomize, Awesome Crossplane, and Awesome Arabic Speakers.
I enjoy writing about tech, here are some featured ones.
Consistently, I contribute to open-source projects or develop my own. Here are some featured ones.
![[AR|EN] Awesome Arabic Speakers](/initiatives/01-awesome-arabic-speakers/featured_hua0739e431b1b4e3dbfa98d21c979630a_35440_5b0671908d187c8e09c132507acc76e3.webp)
![[EN] Dynamic DevOps Roadmap](/initiatives/02-dynamic-devops-roadmap/featured_hu11d71e90d03ca51a8f9a09f9dae7ab6e_56579_ac75e0b8b25ec99bdb98ad025457df23.webp)
![[EN] Awesome Kustomize](/initiatives/03-awesome-kustomize/featured_hu8ade7cd798518f7c525a423c128cbca0_30780_68d8444bec4121745c77a07c1fb9d66a.webp)
![[AR] LibreBooks.Org](/initiatives/04-librebooks/featured_hu7b0216c00e013c1cbc8416aedca4f63b_25530_d00ed69752af62906b2e20b400389a38.webp)
![[Go] KubeZero](/projects/01-kubezero/featured_hu07d9fa8bf00f81164ad47a9c5dedba00_32594_4df789e423ac36a77a91dda074211288.webp)
![[Go] Kustomize Merger](/projects/02-kustomize-merger/featured_hu46562d03af77b68565d0ad519ebbf2d3_54519_ebce632a232585458dbce382b141c353.webp)
![[Bash] ASDF Plugin Manager](/projects/03-asdf-plugin-manager/featured_hu46562d03af77b68565d0ad519ebbf2d3_190962_b1c94b87cbffefbff0aca40c28a1d8de.webp)
![[Bash] Kubech CLI](/projects/04-kubech/featured_hu821bf858258c8afaa18dc42fee13179b_163176_2465034fb4ade6aa3ebe6ec781fadd90.webp)
Occasionally, I make sessions and tech talks. Here are some featured ones.
![[AR] Platform Engineering: Manage your infrastructure using Kubernetes and Crossplane](/talks/01-platform-engineering-manage-your-infrastructure-using-kubernetes-and-crossplane/featured_hu81d6ab94d14988c9195f84cac6569872_43420_b5251690268f07f5eee4f7fdc1cce3cf.webp)
![[EN] Kubernetes Security Best Practices with tips for the CKS exam](/talks/02-kubernetes-security-best-practices-with-tips-for-the-cks-exam/featured_huff7e975078e4855645ac453b93790f3b_29314_c9211e3e1ac76d317d386644bcc30284.webp)
![[EN] Docker Best Practices Workshop](/talks/03-docker-best-practices-workshop-presentation/featured_hu2f84f81964aa57f948827943ba0cb7d0_283852_344e5a88cc5dd0956d7d770224a5ee20.webp)
![[EN] Kubernetes Requests and Limits](/talks/04-kubernetes-requests-and-limits-presentation/featured_hub4eaee6715c31286e454a996956cdc62_50062_87a3960738312a11cd6d122ef4d59677.webp)
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](/publications/2025-modern-big-data-platform/_featured_hufd7daa78f73a0ea9a2b095306d3c61af_209751_1ab3718ff246d0eacf66bc078fa88df6.webp)
![[AR][Book] Free Open Source Guide](/publications/2013-free-open-source-guide/_featured_hufd7daa78f73a0ea9a2b095306d3c61af_174151_5595bc3fd7c94c65f6164419babcf13d.webp)
![[AR][Book] Simply Ubuntu](/publications/2011-simply-ubuntu/_featured_hufd7daa78f73a0ea9a2b095306d3c61af_265441_ea7e337ebb55b462e42f2159337fa8e3.webp)
![[AR][Research] Alternative Energy](/publications/2010-alternative-energy/_featured_hud664aeaa024032cbf07dceb6f11b8807_23685_9367ec14bd14058e029e3c13ed4f7ba1.webp)
๐ ๏ธ Main toolkit
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.
2026
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Article: Tech and career posts
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2025
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Article: Tech and career posts
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Academic: Building a Modern Data Platform for the Artificial Intelligence Era
Post on Springer Nature Research CommunitiesPublished 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 NaturePublished 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 2025Presented 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
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Podcast: How to be a good DevOps Engineer
Presented as a guest on a tech podcast, discussing the Dynamic DevOps Roadmap I created to help people start a career in DevOps. -
Session: Kick-off Panel - Welcome to JobStack 2024
JobStack 2024Part of the kick-off panel at JobStack 2024, the largest tech community in the Middle East and Africa. -
Session: DevOps Circle - DevOps Engineer Kit in 2025
JobStack 2024Presented as a speaker at JobStack 2024, the largest tech community in the Middle East & Africa. -
Initiative: Awesome Arabic Speakers
Awesome-Arabic-Speakers.devStarted an initiative to create a curated and collaborative list of Awesome Arabic Speakers’ tech contributions. -
Initiative: KubeZero
KubeZero.ioStarted KubeZero (also, Kube0 and K0), an open source project that aims to provide a production-ready zero-friction Platform Orchestrator with GitOps designed for a multi-environment Cloud Native setup.
2023
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Article: Tech and career posts
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Initiative: The Dynamic DevOps Roadmap
DevOpsRoadmap.ioCreated 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 2023Presented 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 2023Presented as a speaker at JobStack 2023, the largest tech community in the Middle East & Africa. -
Code: Kustomize Merger Plugin
Golang plugin for KustomizeDeveloped a Kustomize plugin generating manifests seamlessly by extending Kustomize merge strategies (schemaless StrategicMerge). -
Code: ASDF Plugin Manager
Security plugin for asdf version managerDeveloped 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, UKReceived 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
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Article: Tech and career posts
Highlights of tech and career posts I wrote this year:
- Set OpenAPI patch strategy for Kubernetes Custom Resources - Kustomize
- How to create Makefile targets with dynamic parameters and autocompletion - Make
- 2 ways to route Ingress traffic across namespaces - Kubernetes
- Refactoring Bank-Vaults operator for full Vault management support
- Extending Jenkins to run resilient pipelines with long-running jobs - CI/CD
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Session: DevOps Circle - DevOps! What, Why, How?
JobStack 2022Presented as a speaker at JobStack 2022, the largest tech community in the Middle East & Africa. -
Session: Kubernetes Security Best Practices with tips for the CKS exam
Interactive WorkshopConducted a workshop and presentation part of the DevOps knowledge share and developer enablement at Camunda.
2021
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Session: Docker Best Practices
Interactive WorkshopConducted a workshop and presentation part of the DevOps knowledge share and developer enablement at Camunda. -
Session: DevOps Circle - DevOps Decoded
JobStack 2021Presented as a speaker at JobStack 2021, the largest tech community in the Middle East & Africa. -
Session: Kubernetes Requests and Limits
Interactive WorkshopConducted a workshop and presentation part of the DevOps knowledge share and developer enablement at Camunda.
2020
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Article: Tech and career posts
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- How employee evaluation criteria could hurt companies - Management
- 3 ways to customize off-the-shelf Helm charts with Kustomize - Kubernetes
- DevOps is not just a culture and it is also a role! - General
- Validate, format, lint, secure, and test Terraform IaC - CI/CD
- The Road to Cut Production Incidents by 67% and Reduce Downtime to Zero - SRE
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Session: DevOps Circle - DevOps for Engineers
JobStack 2020Presented as a speaker at JobStack 2020, the largest tech community in the Middle East & Africa. -
Podcast: DevOps! What, Why, How?
Egyptian Techies in Berlin Gathering 5Presented on a live tech podcast discussing DevOps from multiple perspectives. -
Session: Introduction to Kubernetes Operators
Kubernetes MeetupConducted a session part of online meetup for Cloud-Native and Kubernetes group. -
Code: Kubech CLI
CLI Tool for KubernetesA CLI to set kubectl contexts/namespaces per shell/terminal to manage multi Kubernetes clusters at the same time, like kubectx/kubens but per shell/terminal.
2019
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Misc: Software Product Management Specialization
University of Alberta - OnlineFinished a specialization (5 courses) in Software Product Management. Even though it wasn’t required for my daily job, but having a “product mindset” helped me a lot later in my career.
2018
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Code: Terraform external data source for SaltStack Pillar
Python tool links between Terraform and SaltStackPython 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 FlumeGolang plugin of InfluxDB Telegraf to collect Apache Flume metrics.
2017
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Session: Developing Ansible Dynamic Inventory Script
Ansible Berlin MeetupConducted 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 AcademyConducted a session part of CrossEngage Academy meetup about my experience with InfluxDB and TICK Stack. -
Misc: Flink Forward 2017
BerlinContributed 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 NetboxPython Ansible module to query Netbox as a dynamic inventory source.
2016
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Misc: Flink Forward 2016
BerlinContributed to the Apache “Flink Forward” conference as a member of the organizing team.
2015
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Session: Getting Started with Ansible
Developer Enablement TechTalkConducted 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
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Award: Best Arabic Websites Contest, First Prize
Issued by IMA CommitteeI 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 AlexandrinaPresented as a speaker at Bibliotheca Alexandrina, as a participant of the team, translated the Creative Commons Licenses.
2013
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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 TechnologyPresented as a speaker part of the MIG workshops in Modern Academy, about Ubuntu Linux adoption. -
Session: Why Open-Source Software?
CAT Reloaded, Mansoura UniversityPresented 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.comAn author of an Arabic book introduces Free and Open-source software and lists famous applications to use. -
Initiative: Free/Open Source Books Website
LibreBooks.orgFounded 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”.
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Award: Official Ubuntu Membership
Issued by CanonicalAn official recognition of significant and sustained contribution to the Ubuntu Linux community and ecosystem.
2012
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Article: Five Reasons Why Open-Source Is a Priority for Arab Countries
Lughat Al-Asr, by Al-Ahram JournalAn article in the most famous tech magazine in Egypt, โLughat Al-Asrโ (Language of the Age) by Al-Ahram Journal.
2011
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Book: Simply Ubuntu, 2nd Edition
SimplyUbuntu.comAn 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
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Award: Scientific Research Competition, Third Place
Issued by Cairo UniversityA 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).
ุนููุฏู ุงูุตููุจุงุญู ููุญู ูุฏู ุงูููู ู ุงูุณููุฑูู In the morning, the people praise the night's journey
Arabic Proverb | ุญูู
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๐ซ Contact me
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