Leading platform teams

Mahmoud Adel

Platform Engineering Manager · Team Builder · Cloud Strategist

zsh
$ echo "I build the teams that build the platforms"
$ echo "that ship your code to the cloud ☁️"
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About

I lead the teams that build
the platforms that run your cloud.

From hands-on DevOps engineer to Platform Engineering Manager — I've traded some terminal time for team time, but the passion for golden paths, developer experience, and rock-solid infrastructure hasn't changed. I build high-performing platform teams, define technical strategy, and make sure engineers can ship with confidence. Still powered by coffee, still dreaming of electric sheep.

XKCD-style comic about DevOps

// pretty much this

☕
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Cups of coffee consumed
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0
Engineers empowered
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0
Deploys / week on our platform
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Skills

cat /proc/skills

👥 Team Leadership & Hiring 95%
🏗️ Platform Architecture & Strategy 94%
🛤️ Developer Experience & Golden Paths 92%
☁️ Cloud & Infrastructure (AWS / GCP / Azure) 93%
🔧 CI/CD, IaC & Kubernetes 91%
📊 SLOs, Incident Mgmt & Reliability 90%

ls ~/toolbox

👥 Team Building 🗺️ Technical Strategy 🛤️ Golden Paths 📐 Platform Design 🎯 OKRs & Roadmaps ☸️ Kubernetes 🐳 Docker ⛵ Helm 🏗️ Terraform 🔶 AWS 🔵 Azure ☁️ GCP ⚙️ GitHub Actions 🔭 ArgoCD 🔭 Backstage / IDPs 📊 Prometheus 📈 Grafana 🔍 Datadog 🐍 Python 🦫 Go 🐧 Linux 📦 Vault 🕸️ Istio 📬 Kafka 🤝 Stakeholder Mgmt 📝 RFCs & ADRs 🧭 Incident Command

/**
 * Philosophy: build the team first,
 * then build the platform that lets
 * everyone else ship with confidence.
 */

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Projects
🏰

Internal Developer Platform

Led a team of 8 engineers to build a self-service IDP from scratch, reducing developer onboarding time from weeks to hours and standardizing golden paths.

Backstage K8s Strategy
🚢

Cloud Migration & FinOps

Directed the successful migration of 50+ legacy services to cloud-native architectures while implementing FinOps practices that reduced cloud spend by 30%.

AWS FinOps Leadership
🎵

CI/CD Orchestration

Spearheaded the unification of fragmented CI/CD pipelines across multiple orgs, establishing automated deployment approval workflows and improving DORA metrics.

GitHub Actions DORA Org Design
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Terminal
visitor@mahmoud.se — zsh
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