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About Me

Hi, I’m Yahia Raslan

I’m a Senior DevOps Engineer based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, currently working at Swisscom. I specialize in building and managing scalable cloud infrastructure, designing observability platforms, and automating everything that can be automated.

With 5+ years of hands-on experience across telecom, fintech, and enterprise environments, I’ve managed production Kubernetes clusters running 140+ microservices, built logging platforms from scratch, and designed CI/CD pipelines that ship code with confidence.

What I Bring to the Table

  • Cloud Architecture — AWS & GCP infrastructure design with Terraform and Pulumi
  • Kubernetes — EKS, GKE cluster management, Helm charts, and GitOps workflows
  • CI/CD & GitOps — GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, FluxCD
  • Observability — Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenSearch, OpenTelemetry
  • Security — HashiCorp Vault, Keycloak, cert-manager, Trivy scanning
  • Automation — Go, Python, Bash scripting for custom tooling
  • Configuration Management — Ansible playbooks and infrastructure automation

Certifications

  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
  • HashiCorp Terraform Associate
  • AWS Solutions Architect – Associate
  • Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect

Career Timeline

DevOps Engineer @ Swisscom — Feb 2024 – Present Building a new logging service with OpenSearch & Loki, managing AWS EKS with Terraform/Pulumi, GitOps with ArgoCD, and secrets management with Vault.

Senior DevOps Engineer @ VOIS (Vodafone) — Jul 2022 – Jan 2024 Managed GCP/GKE infrastructure with 140+ microservices. Jenkins shared libraries, Helm + ArgoCD deployments, mobile CI/CD pipelines.

DevOps Engineer @ Objects — Apr 2021 – Jul 2022 Multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, Linode). Ansible automation, Jenkins pipelines, containerized applications.

Systems Engineer @ Vodafone — Nov 2020 – Apr 2021 Private cloud infrastructure, VMware virtualization, Linux server management.

Education

Professional Diploma in Systems Administration & DevOps Information Technology Institute (ITI), 2019 – 2020

B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering Alexandria University, 2013 – 2018

Get In Touch

I’m available for freelance projects, consulting, and full-time opportunities.