Wael has a total of 22 years of proven experience in architecture, design and implementation of software solutions across different business domains, helping organizations to implement methodologies, adapt technologies in addition to applying frameworks/best practices within enterprise IT.
Wael has a sound experience in Middleware complex solutions backed with a very strong foundation of both Java and JEE technologies.
Part of Wael’s responsibilities is to help companies migrate traditional workload to cloud applying cloud native development and Microservices concepts using DevOps practices.
With a mixture of governance of enterprise IT (CGEIT), IT Service Management (ITIL), and project management (PMP), Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA, Wael is contributing not only in IT departments but also across organizational levels with cross-functional teams to drive shared vision and overall IT strategy.
His experience is very rich as he managed and participated in many projects between 3 continents including projects in Switzerland , Saudi Arabia , Egypt, KSA and UAE.
Ali is Kubernetes, Docker, and Cisco certified and deep knowledge about containerization and automation, and very interested in OpenSource technologies.
Ali comes from an infrastructure background with over 15 years of experience in information technology, specializing in network infrastructure, containerization, automation, and cloud. currently working as a Solution Architect at Red Hat
He has experience across diverse cultures in New Zealand, Canada & Saudi Arabia, leading project teams to design implement microservices schemes to time, quality, and budget targets. Active in open source community via knowledge sharing & giving lectures in the universities & meetups..
Ahmed's journey started first at NASA Ames research Centre in a 3D real-time system for airports, then he joined IBM Egypt as a developer and team leader and worked there about 5 years. During that time he went on assignment to IBM NY TJ Watson lab for almost a year then on another assignment to SBM (IBM SA at that time) for almost 2 years. He then transferred his contract to SBM itself as a solution architect. He stayed in SBM for 15 years and worked on giant projects in multiple domains. His last role was the manager of Architecture Unit and Leader for Digital transformation handling Digital Transformation initiatives and projects for several government entities, banks, and smart cities. As well he was handling SBM major strategic transformation for adoption of innovation and new technologies.
Ahmed’s a holder of masters degree in Computer Science from Illinois and a graduate diploma in innovation and design thinking from MIT and Columbia University.
In his spare time he enjoys reading , swimming and for sure taking care of his big family and teenagers is a no brainer , that we can say it is something he enjoys..
IT Professional with 11+ years of experience in the Field with special focus on Infrastructure and Cloud related technologies.
Ahmed has worked with multiple IT vendors which helped him in understanding the market needs, customer requirements as well as architecting and proposing different solutions that best fit the customer based on the best of breed of technologies.
Ahmed has joined Red Hat for more than a year now and he is based in Riyadh looking after the Saudi IT market, previously he used to cover different regions such as Central Africa, Egypt and Levant.
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