Abdu Elkugia
Ops - Internal Tooling at Teleport
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAbdu Elkugia is an Ops and Internal Tooling engineer with 9 years of cross-disciplinary experience in systems engineering, product leadership, and developer tooling, currently driving internal platform work at Teleport in Seattle. He transitioned from hands-on electrical engineering and technical product leadership in aerospace—where he launched a 50 krad space product line and helped generate millions in sales—into cloud-native access and infrastructure software. At Teleport he moved from engineer to ops-focused internal tooling, blending deep hardware-rooted reliability practices with software automation to improve developer productivity. His background in electrical stress, radiation, and failure analysis informs a rigorous, safety-first approach to tooling and platform stability that few purely software engineers bring. Abdu holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington and an M.S. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech, a combination that underpins his full-stack problem-solving across hardware and software boundaries. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex technical constraints into practical, auditable tooling that scales for distributed teams.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering at University of WashingtonMaster of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
English, Arabic
Github Skills (27)
rbac10
kubernetes10
docker10
database-access10
gravity10
audit10
firewall10
rdp10
bastion10
security10
certificate10
infrastructure10
go10
trainings10
package10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
aelkugia/Issue-Slack-Bot
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
Slack Bot that provides an easy way to create a Github issue.
Contributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 5 pushes in 13 days
botslackbotslack-botgithub-issueslack
aelkugia/aelkugia.github.io
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 18 days
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