About Me
š Hi, Iām Yahia Ahmed Khalil Raslan
Iām a DevOps Engineer currently based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
With a strong background in systems administration and a passion for automation, I specialize in building and managing scalable infrastructure in cloud environments.
My expertise covers:
- Designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- Managing Kubernetes clusters
- Implementing Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / Pulumi)
- Leveraging open-source tools to build resilient systems
š¬ Contact Information
- Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Mobile: +31 642016640
- Email: yahia.ahmed.raslan@gmail.com
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Profiles: LinkedIn GitHub Medium
š¼ Work Experience
DevOps Engineer ā Swisscom (Feb 2024 ā Present)
- Built a new logging service with OpenSearch & Loki
- Managed Kafka as an ingestion protection layer
- Configured ingestion via FluentBit / OpenTelemetry
- Provisioned AWS infrastructure (EKS, Route53, VPC, Secrets Manager) with Terraform/Pulumi
- Applied GitOps workflows with ArgoCD/FluxCD
- Automated certificates via Cert-Manager
- Integrated Vault & AWS Secrets Manager for secrets management
- Deployed Keycloak for authentication/authorization
- Set up monitoring with Prometheus & Trivy
- Automated service deployments with GitLab pipelines
- Developed automation tools in Go & Python
Senior DevOps Engineer ā VOIS (Vodafone Intelligent Solutions) (Jul 2022 ā Jan 2024)
- Managed GCP infrastructure (GKE) with Terraform
- Administered K8s clusters with 140+ microservices
- Maintained Jenkins shared libraries for Java microservices
- Handled secrets with Vault
- Deployed services via Helm + ArgoCD
- Built pipelines for iOS/Android apps using Azure DevOps
DevOps Engineer ā Objects (Apr 2021 ā Jul 2022)
- Managed on-prem & cloud servers (Linux, Windows, macOS on AWS, Azure, Linode)
- Created Ansible playbooks & Jenkins pipelines
- Automated backups to AWS S3
- Maintained Dockerized applications
Systems Engineer ā Vodafone (Nov 2020 ā Apr 2021)
- Managed private cloud infrastructure & VMware virtualization
- Deployed & secured Linux VMs
Application Support Engineer ā Fawry (Jul ā Nov 2020)
- Supported & upgraded bank wallet apps (WebSphere)
- Administered SQL databases
Technical Support Engineer ā Telecom Egypt (Dec 2018 ā May 2019)
- Resolved internet/network connectivity issues
- Configured ADSL routers
š ļø Technical Skills
- OS: Linux (expert), Windows & Unix (basic)
- Cloud: AWS, GCP
- IaC: Terraform, Pulumi
- Containers/Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes
- CI/CD & GitOps: Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Helm, FluxCD
- Secrets Management: Vault, AWS Secrets Manager
- Config Management: Ansible
- Monitoring/Logging: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenSearch, ELK, Splunk, Instana, Nagios
- Languages: Bash, Python, Go, PHP
- Databases: Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB (familiar)
- Virtualization: VMware
š Education
Professional Diploma in Systems Administration & DevOps
Information Technology Institute (ITI), Oct 2019 ā Jun 2020
B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (Electronics & Communication)
Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Sep 2013 ā Jun 2018
š Certifications
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator
- Certified Terraform Associate
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect ā Associate
- Google Cloud Certified ā Professional Cloud Architect
š Personal Info
- Nationality: Egyptian
- Date of Birth: Nov 18, 1995
- Military Status: Exempted
- Languages: Arabic (native), English (fluent), German (basic)