Aly Kafoury
Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt
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Top SchoolAly Kafoury is a Database & Storage Reliability Engineer with 8 years of hands-on infrastructure and SRE experience and a 13-year background in systems engineering. He has led DevSecOps efforts at Pluto TV, designing secure, cloud-native platforms across AWS, Azure, and GCP, and mentoring junior engineers while ensuring compliance with standards like PCI and ISO. At Percona he contributed to the Percona XtraDB Cluster Operator—adding ProxySQL/HAProxy service features—which highlights his strong open-source and Kubernetes operator expertise. He combines low-level storage and database reliability work with cloud security automation, infrastructure-as-code, and Go/Python development, and has a curious engineering pedigree that began in naval architecture and game development. Based in Alexandria, Egypt, he also shares technical insights through his blog, signaling an interest in community knowledge sharing beyond day-to-day operations.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, Bachelor's degree Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at Alexandria University
English, Arabic
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Github Skills (11)
kubernetes-operator10
go10
haproxy10
proxysql10
dockers9
kubernetes-pods9
statefulset9
docker9
kubernetes9
cloud-infrastructure8
infrastructure8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
percona/percona-xtradb-cluster-operator
Jun 2020 - Sep 2020
Percona Operator for MySQL based on Percona XtraDB Cluster
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 51 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Aly's contributions primarily involve enhancing the Percona XtraDB Cluster Operator, focusing on features related to service configuration, specifically for ProxySQL and HAProxy. They added functionalities such as `LoadBalancerSourceRanges` and `ServiceAnnotations` to the ProxySQL service, and created the layout for the HAProxy statefulset and related services. Further, they implemented changes to disable PMM when HAProxy is enabled, and introduced tests related to HAProxy.
mysqloperatorperconapercona-xtradb-clusterkubernetes-operator
AlyHKafoury/notejam
Dec 2018 - Jan 2019
Unified sample web app. The easy way to learn web frameworks.
Contributions:53 commits, 40 pushes in 11 days
web-framework
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