Amjad Kotobi
System Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAmjad Kotobi is a System Development Engineer based in Berlin with six years of hands-on experience designing and operating cloud, HPC, and storage infrastructures. He has driven performance tuning, automation, and migration projects across organizations like AWS, DKRZ, CERN and research institutes, blending strong SRE practices with infrastructure-as-code and observability tooling. His background spans OpenStack, Kubernetes, CEPH/GPFS/Gluster storage design, and automation with Ansible, Puppet, Terraform and Python—skills he applied to both large-scale public cloud and scientific supercomputing environments. An active contributor to the Spack package manager ecosystem, he has added and maintained package definitions that help reproducible scientific software builds. Known for pragmatic performance troubleshooting and building runbooks for recoverability, he brings a systems-first mindset to complex, data-intensive platforms.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Universite de Neuchatel
English, Persian, French, German
Github Skills (9)
packaging10
build-tools10
python10
package-management10
package10
git9
cmake8
autotools8
r6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
spack/spack
Mar 2020 - Nov 2020
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 79 commits, 88 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Amjad primarily contributed to the development of the Spack package manager by adding new packages and updating existing ones. Their work focused on creating package definitions (package.py files) for various software like `jblob`, `anaconda3`, and Python libraries, and integrating them into the Spack ecosystem. They also updated the version information of existing software such as `git`, `xrootd`, and R packages. Furthermore, they maintained and added new versions of existing packages.
compilerspythonradiussplatformslinux
ajkotobi/spack
Mar 2020 - Jul 2021
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Contributions:114 pushes, 108 branches in 1 year 4 months
compilersplatformspackage-managerconfigurationsmultiple-versions
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