Alaa Qutaish
Head Of Infrastructure Reliability at Luma AI
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolAlaa Qutaish is a senior Site Reliability Engineer and infrastructure leader based in Dubai with 11 years of experience shaping scalable, cloud-native platforms. He currently leads SRE at Luma AI, building observable, multi-cloud Generative AI infrastructure that spans thousands of SXM5-HBM3 GPUs including H100, A100, A10, and L40S, all automated with IaC and GitOps and a global multi-cluster observability layer. He also serves as Head of Infrastructure Reliability, driving reliability, cloud operations across vendors, and collaboration between research and engineering teams. Previously, he built and operated large-scale cloud platforms at AccelByte, NewStore, and HERE, leading SRE teams, implementing canary deployments, IRSA/GitOps, Istio-based service mesh, and multi-tenancy. He has a strong track record of mentoring and interviewing, helping teams ship hundreds of deployments daily in production. A Greenwich graduate, Alaa combines hands-on engineering depth with leadership to turn complex infrastructure into auditable, reliable systems.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
2:1, 2:1 at University of Greenwich
English, Arabic, German
Github Skills (118)
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bash10
oh-my-zsh10
shell10
plugins10
cli10
cuelang10
network-interfaces10
zsh10
docker10
resource-management10
cli-app10
php10
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terraform-modules9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
alaa/dotfiles
Sep 2014 - Apr 2017
Contributions:28 commits, 12 pushes in 2 years 7 months
alaa/pencil
May 2015 - Dec 2017
Contributions:43 commits, 11 PRs, 64 pushes in 2 years 8 months
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