CKA and CKAD certified DevOps & Cloud Engineer focused on Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and AWS infrastructure. Built 8 infrastructure projects end-to-end covering EKS deployments, GitOps with ArgoCD, Terraform provisioning, multi-stage Docker builds, and DevSecOps pipelines across Jenkins and GitHub Actions. Each project includes source code, runbooks, and terminal sessions.
8 Projects · 2 Certifications · 8 Surfaces · 200+ Knowledge Base Pages
Full details, runbooks, and terminal sessions at projects.ibtisam-iq.com.
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Microservices GitOps on Amazon EKS Deployed 10 microservices with Terraform, 3 CI pipelines, ArgoCD Image Updater, Gateway API routing, ExternalDNS, and Prometheus + Elastic Stack observability.
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SilverStack CI/CD Platform Built a self-hosted Jenkins, SonarQube, Nexus platform on microVMs with 5 custom OCI rootfs images, systemd as PID 1, and Cloudflare Tunnels for CGNAT traversal.
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14-Stage DevSecOps Pipeline Same pipeline on Jenkins and GitHub Actions for 3 codebases (Java, Python, Node.js). 3-pass Trivy scanning, SonarQube quality gates, triple-registry publishing (GHCR, Docker Hub, Nexus).
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Multi-Environment Deployment Deployed 5 microservices across bare-metal Kubernetes and Amazon EKS. Helmfile orchestration, IRSA, and a serverless event pipeline (SQS, Lambda, SNS).
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Polyglot Application Modernization Containerized 3 apps (Java, Python, Node.js) and deployed across EC2, ECS, kubeadm, and EKS. Kustomize overlays sharing 80% of base manifests between environments.
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BankApp: Same Artifact, Three Compute Models Deployed the same Java artifact across EC2, ECS Fargate, and EKS sharing one VPC and RDS instance. 60% image size reduction with multi-stage Docker builds.
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DebugBox Open-source Kubernetes debugging toolkit with 3 Alpine variants (14MB to 104MB), 93% smaller than netshoot. Multi-arch CI with Trivy gating and Hadolint linting.
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AWS Static Hosting Built a zero-compute hosting architecture using CloudFront OAC with SigV4 signing, Cross-Region Replication, dual-KMS encryption, CloudTrail auditing, and Glacier lifecycle policies.
| Certification | Issuer | Status | Verify |
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| Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) | CNCF | Earned Nov 2025 | Credly ↗ |
| Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) | CNCF | Earned Nov 2025 | Credly ↗ |
| Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) | CNCF | In Progress |
| Category | Tools |
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| Containers & Orchestration | Kubernetes, kubeadm, Docker, Docker Buildx, Docker Compose, Helm, Helmfile, Kustomize, ArgoCD, ArgoCD Image Updater |
| Cloud (AWS) | EKS, ECS, EC2, Auto Scaling, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, VPC, IAM, Route 53, CloudFront, KMS, CloudFormation, SQS, Lambda, SNS, ACM, CloudTrail |
| CI/CD & Security | GitHub Actions, Jenkins, SonarQube, Nexus, Trivy, Hadolint, Bandit, pip-audit, Maven, Make |
| Infrastructure as Code | Terraform, Ansible, Bash, AWS CLI, eksctl |
| Networking | Gateway API, AWS Load Balancer Controller, Nginx, ExternalDNS, Cloudflare Tunnel, DNS, TLS/SSL |
| Observability | Prometheus, Grafana, AlertManager, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Filebeat, Fluent Bit, CloudWatch |
| Linux & Databases | Ubuntu, Alpine Linux, systemd, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, RabbitMQ |
Every surface is independently deployed with its own repo, stack, and pipeline.
| Surface | Purpose | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio | Main site, skills, certifications, resume | ibtisam-iq.com |
| Projects | 8 infrastructure projects with full write-ups | projects.ibtisam-iq.com |
| Runbook | Documented decisions and debugging from real work | runbook.ibtisam-iq.com |
| Nectar | Engineering knowledge base (200+ pages) | nectar.ibtisam-iq.com |
| Cert Vault | Kubernetes and cloud certification prep | cert-vault.ibtisam-iq.com |
| Blog | Write-ups of what was built and debugged | blog.ibtisam-iq.com |
| DebugBox | Open-source Kubernetes debugging toolkit | debugbox.ibtisam-iq.com |
| SilverStack | Reusable infrastructure: provisioning scripts, OCI images, systemd units | GitHub ↗ |
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