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About Ahmed Swilam
I am Ahmed Swilam, a Junior DevOps Engineer based in Cairo, Egypt. I focus on building production-style DevOps projects that connect application deployment, infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, containerization, monitoring, and security scanning.
I care about building systems that are not only working, but also documented, reproducible, troubleshootable, and ready to be understood by other engineers.
Experience
DevOps Intern / Software DevOps Specialist Trainee — Digilians
Cairo, Egypt · Jan 2026 – Jun 2026Completed hands-on DevOps training covering Linux administration, Bash scripting, Git/GitHub, Docker, Docker Compose, Kubernetes, AWS fundamentals, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, monitoring, and DevSecOps practices.
- Built and documented containerized applications using Docker and Docker Compose.
- Practiced Kubernetes deployments using Deployments, Services, Ingress, ConfigMaps, Secrets, StatefulSets, PVCs, RBAC, NetworkPolicies, HPA/VPA, rollout management, service discovery, and troubleshooting commands.
- Built Jenkins CI/CD workflows integrating GitHub checkout, automated testing, SonarQube analysis, Quality Gate enforcement, Docker image build, Trivy scanning, Docker Hub push, and EC2-based deployment.
- Worked with AWS and Terraform fundamentals including EC2, IAM, VPC, S3, RDS fundamentals, infrastructure planning, and Terraform lifecycle commands.
- Created Bash automation scripts and practiced Linux troubleshooting using process monitoring, log analysis, permissions, SSH, cron jobs, and process priority management.
Education
Bachelor of Computer Science
2025Certifications
IBM Applied DevOps Engineering Professional Certificate
Coursera / IBM
AWS Cloud Practitioner
AWS
Skills
Cloud & Infrastructure as Code
Containers & Orchestration
CI/CD & DevSecOps
Linux & Automation
Monitoring & Logging
Version Control & Documentation