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Wassim EL-Asmar
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Wassim is passionate about system administration, focusing on infrastructure, automation, configuration management, and the implementation of evolutive systems. His past experiences include working with OpenStack, as well as a migration of a Docker infrastructure to OpenShift. His current contracts involve work with AWS, Kubernetes, and GitLab CI/CD. Skilled, organized, and professional, Wassim is a considerable asset to any team geared toward process automation and DevOps best practices.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Linux, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Bash, Python, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Concourse CI
The most amazing...
...project that I've worked on needed a complete automation of a complex infrastructure while focusing on optimization every step of the way.
Work Experience
Senior DevOps | Site Reliability Engineer
National Bank of Canada
- Established a structure that meets the needs of security, stability, speed, and continuous development.
- Implemented CI/CD processes with Bitbucket, Jenkins, Nexus, Harness, Helm, and OpenShift.
- Managed deployments and operation configurations in OpenShift, including replicas, probes, CPU, memory, and ConfigMap.
- Configured EKS and Kinesis Data Firehose on AWS with Terraform.
- Set up a Git flow model for code management, a proper image versioning for all built images, and a process for hotfixes on critical transactional applications in production.
- Ensured the execution of SonarQube and Veracode scans and implemented gating from the scan's reports within the pipelines.
- Managed and externalized property files in ConfigMap and templatized the application's deployments using Helm.
Senior DevOps and SRE Consultant
Desjardins Group
- Implemented CI/CD with Concourse and PCF for multiple critical transactional applications.
- Supported critical transactional applications in their lifecycle in all environments from development to production.
- Collaborated with multiple teams of developers and QAs to maximize pipeline functionalities.
- Led three teams of developers which I enrolled in the DevOps processes and best practices.
Senior DevOps and SRE Consultant
CAE
- Configured automation of deployments and management of configuration files for CAE web servers with Chef.
- Implemented Jenkins pipelines to trigger the Chef cookbooks for initial configuration and update part of the components.
- Used Azure DevOps to create pipelines for deploying applications to Azure.
DevOps and SRE Consultant
Gologic
- Configured an OpenShift cluster and migrated from a Docker infrastructure to the OpenShift infrastructure, including migration of all applications, databases, and every component related to the microservices.
- Refactored Bash scripts used to automate manual tasks.
- Created automation and configuration management with Chef.
Senior System Administrator
iweb
- Administered an OpenStack infrastructure such as cloud instances and bare-metal servers and processed cluster migrations.
- Configured and troubleshot Linux and Windows web clusters such as LB, web servers, databases, and DFS and structured Hyper-V clusters.
- Set up Cisco ASA firewalls and VPN configurations and solved network issues.
- Managed backups, server clones, monitoring, investigations, and documentation.
System Administrator
OVHcloud
- Configured Linux servers to match the client's requirements, such as LVM partitions and RAID configs.
- Configured security onto Linux servers, including iptables firewall and natting rules.
- Troubleshot network availability using tcpdump, Nmap, and MTR analysis.
Experience
EKS Deployment with Terraform
Configured a custom launch template in AWS, deployed an ingress controller, and created a pipeline in GitLab-CI to launch our Terraform.
Created a second pipeline that will take care of:
• Creating Docker images used as workers in our main pipeline
• Testing those worker images
• Pushing the versioned images in the GitLab registry
Deployed ExternalDNS to automate zone creation in Route 53 that verifies ingress configs automatically. Automated SSL certificate creation and signature process with Let's Encrypt to configure a service account for cert-manager and a ClusterIssuer and deploy cert-manager that verifies ingress configs, creates SSL certs accordingly, and signs certs with authority.
Configured DynamoDB to manage the LockState of our Terraform state.
Financial Data Parsing and Outputted Into Kafka
The main purpose of this application is the serialization and deserialization of data acquired from multiple API endpoints. The final product is a parsed message that the application produces onto Kafka topics which will be consumed by Elasticsearch. The application is deployed with Helm onto Kubernetes.
Outside from the applicative code, a big part of this project is the release management and infrastructure as code, taken from another project that I've built.
The infrastructure—an EKS cluster deployed through Terraform will host the application and all other parts (Elasticsearch, upcoming apps).
The AWS infrastructure is configured for the auto-scaling group to scale the EKS workers as needed.
Security—deployment and configuration of cert-manager, in charge of certificate creation and renewals.
Deployment and configuration of ExternalDNS for automatic zone creation in Route 53 from pull requests in the ingress rules.
Release management—trunk-based branching, simple image versioning. To ensure robustness, tests are run early, and production release is done often.
Skills
Languages
Bash, Python, Bash Script, Go
Tools
GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Helm, Terraform, Concourse CI, Chef, Splunk, Nagios, Hyper-V, Amazon EKS
Platforms
Linux, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), OpenStack, VMware Tanzu Application Service (TAS) (Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF)), Proxmox, Azure, Apache Kafka
Paradigms
DevOps
Storage
Datadog, GlusterFS
Other
Cisco, Cloud, Groovy Scripting
Certifications
MCA200 OpenStack Certification
Mirantis
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