Ammar L.

Ammar L.

DevOps Engineer

Germany
Trusted member since 2025
11 years of experience

Throughout his career, Ammar has led initiatives to optimize cloud costs, implement self-service infrastructure, and strengthen security practices. He has also focused on enhancing developer experience, driving operational efficiency and reliability across engineering teams.

Recognized for his problem-solving abilities and deep technical expertise, Ammar enables teams to build scalable, secure, and high-performing platforms, combining practical solutions with strategic vision.

Main expertise

DevOpsDevOps6 years
KubernetesKubernetes6 years
AWSAWS6 years
TerraformTerraform4 years
7+

Experience5

PriceSpider

Senior DevOps Engineer

PriceSpider
E-commerce
Dec 2022 - Jul 2024 · 1y 7m
  • Maintained a multi-account, multi-Kubernetes-cluster AWS infrastructure, providing support for a global team of developers across Europe and North America.
  • Improved team practices, standardized processes, and assisted in management tasks.
  • Worked with the team to build the internal developer platform and assessed potential portal solutions.
  • Planned and oversaw the implementation of global DevOps team standards and practices.
  • Planned infrastructure and estimated costs for global product deployments.
DockerDocker
AWSAWS
PythonPython
AWS SQSAWS SQS
KubernetesKubernetes
8+
e-bot7

DevOps Engineer

e-bot7
Information Technology (IT) and Services
Jul 2020 - Jul 2021 · 1y
  • Maintained a multi-account, multi-provider cloud environment using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
  • Maintained and deployed ECS and Kubernetes clusters for microservices and ML pipelines.
  • Optimized and resolved issues in logging and monitoring systems.
  • Developed automations, internal tools, and CI/CD pipelines.
JavaScriptJavaScript
DockerDocker
AWSAWS
ElasticSearchElasticSearch
JenkinsJenkins
12+

Senior Systems Administrator

HaykalGroup
Banking and Finance
May 2017 - Jun 2020 · 3y 1m
  • Standardized infrastructure.
  • Introduced DevOps practices and coached developers on new tools.
  • Dockerized and deployed microservices to a Docker Swarm cluster.
  • Identified and decommissioned underutilized servers.
DockerDocker
BashBash
LinuxLinux
GitGit
PowerShellPowerShell
2+
Sawa ISP

Full Stack Developer

Sawa ISP
Telecommunications
Jul 2015 - Apr 2017 · 1y 9m
  • Maintained legacy system.
  • Built delivery automation to serve updates to customer devices.
  • Performed a full project rewrite, improving performance and maintainability.
  • Implemented new features and system components.
  • Analyzed and reported usage data using R.
PHPPHP
JavaScriptJavaScript
Angular.jsAngular.js
MongoDBMongoDB
DockerDocker
2+
Sawa ISP

Systems and Network Administrator

Sawa ISP
Telecommunications
Jul 2013 - Jul 2015 · 2y
  • Install, configure, and maintain servers hardware and software including configuring new servers, replacing faulty components, and maintaining firewall and connectivity with the telecom provider;

  • Create virtualization setup for both customers and developers;

  • Write Nagios monitoring plugins for custom services;

  • Implement a service allowing tens of thousands of customers to use Google Play and App Store without a proxy;

  • Mentor and onboard new team members.

NGINXNGINX
BashBash
PerlPerl
LinuxLinux
Apache HTTP ServerApache HTTP Server
PowerShellPowerShell

Engineering excellence

All DevOps Engineers who have applied to Proxify are scored from 0 to 300 on engineering excellence, one of the five parameters we evaluate. This score reflects engineering excellence only, based on interviews, take-home assignments, live coding sessions, and/or on-the-job performance reviews. The curve shows how all evaluated DevOps Engineers are distributed across that range, where our acceptance threshold for this parameter sits, and where Ammar stands.

050100150200250300Engineering excellence scoreShare of engineersmedianmeanProxifyacceptancethreshold
Ammar
Score 212 · Top 4% of engineers

Education

Damascus University
Damascus University
Information Technology - AI and NLP2010 - 2015

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