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« I never dream of success — I work for it. »

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Ahmed Abdessamad

Hello, I'm Ahmed — great to meet you.

A computer engineering graduate from ESPRIT (Tunis), I am a DevOps & CloudOps Consultant with over 4 years of experience designing and operating cloud-native infrastructures in Tunisia and France. Currently based in Paris, I work at CNAV where I automate CI/CD deployments and Kubernetes orchestration. I am also a passionate DevOps Instructor, with over 750 hours of training delivered at GoMyCode — helping engineers master Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS and Azure.

DevOps & Cloud

I install, configure, monitor and automate infrastructures.

CI/CD & Automation:

Jenkins Ansible SonarQube Nexus Azure DevOps GitHub Actions Bitbucket CI/CD

Containers & Orchestration:

Docker Docker Compose Kubernetes Nginx AKS EKS

Cloud & IaC:

AWS (EC2, RDS, EKS, ECR) Microsoft Azure Terraform OpenStack OVH

Monitoring:

Datadog Grafana Prometheus ELK Stack Zabbix

Scripting & OS:

Shell / Bash Python Linux Windows
DevOps Instructor

I am passionate about teaching and helping engineers grow.

Topics taught:

CI/CD Github Action Docker Kubernetes Terraform Jenkins Ansible Git SonarQube AWS Azure Nagios Zabbix

Instructor stats:

6Sessions
50+Students
750+Hours

Languages:

🇫🇷 French — Fluent 🇬🇧 English — Fluent 🇹🇳 Arabic — Native
Dev Full Stack

I develop web applications end-to-end when needed.

Frameworks:

React JS Node JS Laravel 6 Symfony 3.4

Databases:

MongoDB MySQL

SCM & Tools:

GitHub GitLab Bitbucket Jira

Methodology:

Agile Scrum

Professional Experience

Major assignments in France and Tunisia, at industry-leading companies and as a passionate DevOps instructor.

Paris, France

March 2024 – present

DevOps Consultant

  • – Creating and updating Ansible roles to automate deployments and configurations
  • – Creating Ansible playbooks to automate software installation on target servers
  • – Designing and updating Jenkinsfiles for efficient and customized CI/CD pipelines
  • – Shell scripts to automate updates across different environments
  • – Resolving technical issues reported by CNAV teams on the DoIT platform (N2/N3)

Lyon, France

Aug 2022 – Nov 2023

CloudOps Engineer

  • – Terraform modules to automate the provisioning of Azure infrastructures
  • – Deploying Azure infrastructures via Jenkins pipelines
  • – Creating and managing Azure Policies
  • – Unit tests for Terraform projects
  • – Shell scripts to reduce RBAC usage and report subscription quotas
  • – Azure Functions to automate log transfer to Datadog
  • – Creating dashboards & alerts in Datadog — N2/N3 support

Tunis, Tunisie

Sep 2021 – Jul 2022

DevOps & Cloud Engineer

  • – Infrastructure migration OVH → Microsoft Azure
  • – Azure server provisioning with Terraform
  • – CI/CD pipelines with Bitbucket CI/CD
  • – ELK (Filebeat, Elastalert, Metricbeat) for application monitoring
  • – Setting up Zabbix + Grafana + Elasticsearch for server metrics
  • – Production deployments outside business hours
  • – Mentoring the Dev team on DevOps culture

Tunis, Tunisie

Jan 2021 – Jul 2022

DevOps Instructor (part-time)

  • – Weekly follow-ups and student mentoring
  • – CI/CD workshops (Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, Git, SonarQube), AWS, Azure
  • – Kubernetes clusters so each student can deploy their own website
  • – Terraform infrastructures for hands-on labs
  • – Module checkpoints — building end-to-end projects

Tunis, Tunisie

March 2021 – Aug 2021

DevOps / Full Stack JS (Final Year Project)

  • – CI/CD Pipeline: Azure VMs, Shell, Docker, Jenkins, Selenium, SonarQube
  • – Microservices migration tests VPS → AKS
  • – MERN application for mission and appointment management

Tunis, Tunisie

Aug 2019 – Sep 2019

Summer Internship

  • – Deploying a Cloud platform based on OpenStack
  • – Managing containers with Kubernetes

Monastir, Tunisie

Jan 2018 – Jun 2018

Final Year Internship (Bachelor's)

  • – Business services web application — Bootstrap, Laravel, MySQL
  • – Containerizing the application with Docker

Certifications

Official certifications verifiable on Credly

CKA

CKA

Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Linux Foundation / CNCF

AWS SAA

AWS SAA

Solutions Architect – Associate

Amazon Web Services

Terraform

TF-003

Terraform Associate (003)

HashiCorp

AZ-900

AZ-900

Azure Fundamentals

Microsoft

AWS CCP

AWS CCP

Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02)

Amazon Web Services

RH294

RH294

Linux Automation with Ansible

Red Hat

View all my certifications on Credly

+20 Attestations

Continuous training in the DevOps & Cloud field

CKAD

CKAD — Kubernetes App Developer

CKA KodeKloud

CKA — KodeKloud

DevOps Essentials

DevOps Essentials

Ansible

Ansible Automation

Docker

DevOps & Docker

Kubernetes Dev

Kubernetes for Developers

Azure CI/CD

Azure DevOps CI/CD

FCP

FCP Fundamentals

GCP

GCP Deployment

AWS Funda

AWS Fundamentals

View all my certifications on Google Drive

YouTube Channel

Free courses in Arabic for beginners

Ahmed Abdessamad

@ahmedabdessamad · Since 2017

9+Playlists
30+Videos
2017Founded

Topics covered

MySQL Blockchain C / C++ Trading Cryptocurrency

Free technical courses in Arabic for beginners — C, C++, MySQL, Blockchain and cryptocurrency trading.

Visit the channel

Education

A solid engineering background

🎓

National Engineering Degree in Computer Science

ESPRIT — Ariana, Tunisie

Sep 2018 – Sep 2021

💻

Applied Bachelor's in Computer Networks

ISITC — Sousse, Tunisie

Sep 2015 – Juin 2018

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