Hi, I am Ismail KABOUBI

Ismail KABOUBI

Software Reliability Engineer at Self Employed

I am a passionate Software Reliability Engineer (SRE) with 5 years of working experience. I have been working with Kubernetes since the version 1.1 earler in 2015. I help companies on their cloud transformation journey by endorsing Cloud Native best practices.

Leadership
Team Work
Communication
Hard Working
Fast Learner
Problem Solving

Experiences

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Software / DevOps Engineer
Cy-Play

Sep 2015 - May 2017 , Paris

Cy-play provides an in-store solution for tablet and smartphones that empower sales teams in offline retail stores. Play Retail is a solution that covers a large spectrum of functionalities such as making out-of-stock products purchasable and delivered in-store/at home, recruiting prospects in CRM database, looking up a client’s CRM data to provide personnalized selling advice, sending to HQ photos of store’s merchandising, etc. Overall, Cy-Play provide a ready-to-use solution, easily integrated to existing information systems, and take care of training the salesforce to perform at best with their digital “tool-box”.

Responsibilities:
  • Worked within the Cloud for integration processes.
  • Performed DevOps for Linux and Mac Platforms.
  • Focused on automation and integration.
  • Monitored developed applications and fixed bugs.
  • Wrote code and designed continual updates.
  • Completed load and performance testing of extremely complex systems.
  • Developed REST API’s for Mobile apps.
  • Deployed multi-tenant platforms using on top of Kubernetes in aws.
Kubernetes Specialist (Smile)
BNP Paribas

Jun 2017 - Jan 2018 , Paris

Helping BNP Paribas on their cloud transformation journey.

Responsibilities:
  • Study the possibility to integrate Docker/Container in developpement process.
  • Deploy a CICD platform.
  • Integrate Docker to developement process using Docker Compose.
  • Provision new environements for developers within a Kubernetes cluster.
  • Deploy a ChatOps (mattermost) tool to facilitate communication between developers.
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Kubernetes Specialist (Smile)
Société Générale

Nov 2017 - Jan 2018 , Paris

Helping Société Générale on a deployment of an API Management platform on top of an Openshift cluster.

Responsibilities:
  • Deploy an API Management platform on top of an Openshift cluster.
  • Create Dockerfiles required for WSO2 compononts.
  • Automate the provisioning process to have a new WSO2 environement using Shell scripts.
  • Automate integartion of new APIs within Openshift Cluster using Openshift S2I and templates.
Software Reliability Engineer (Smile)
Suez Smart Solutions

Feb 2018 - Sep 2018 , Paris

SUEZ supports city development around the world with through its historical activities, which are water and waste management services. SUEZ Smart Solutions, a subsidiary of the Group, provides intelligent solutions and expertise to support regions in their environmental and digital transformation.

Responsibilities:
  • SRE on DigitalCity Saint Etienne: Integrates data collection solutions (smart meters, sensors and probes) to provide digital models and real-time applications, thus moving towards rational use of resources and resilience in times of crisis. It consit of OpenAPI Platform that expose public API to end-users to create Apps for Saint Etienne Smart City.
  • SRE on ON’connect coach: This solution is intended to support users in optimizing their consumption, in particular of domestic hot water
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Renault AITS

Sep 2018 - Present, Paris

In a few years, Renault AITS will stop its 2 Datacenters. Strategy is changed to public cloud first approach. During this experience i’ve touched all kind of public/private clouds, technologies and programming languages.

Senior Software Reabilty Engineer

Nov 2018 - Present

  • Driving migration process to public cloud providers for more than ~1000 applications.
  • Proposing and contributing on production ready multitenant Kubernetes architectures. - Lead backend team.
  • Assuring that all applications that will migrate respects Cloud Native approach.
  • Design and develop Kubernetes Operators to manage Custom Resource Definitions to provision multi-tenant environments
Kubernetes Specialist (Smile)

Sep 2018 - Nov 2018

  • During this experience I’ve participated to studies of choosing the right solution for Renault AITS to deliver the same Kubernetes service level as public cloud providers.

Recent Posts

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My Feedback about CKA and CKAD

I recently had the opportunity to pass Certified Kubernetes Application Developer Exam as a beta tester, one month before I’ve passed the Certified Kubernetes Administrator Exam. The two exams are hand-on performance-based. So, I’ve practiced Kubernetes for a period before passing them. CKA and CKAD exams are managed by CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) and cost me $300 per exam. To register for CKA and CKAD exam, you need to create an account in cncf.

July 8, 2020 Read
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