Ammar Lakis
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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RockstarAmmar Lakis is a seasoned cloud engineer and architect based in Munich with 12 years of experience helping SaaS teams adopt DevOps practices and build reliable cloud-native platforms. He specializes in AWS, Infrastructure as Code, containerization, and Linux environments, focusing on developer enablement through GitOps automation and improved observability. Ammar has hands-on experience hardening CI/CD and test infrastructures—contributing to the Kyma project's test-infra by modernizing buildpacks, adding Dockerfile linting, fixing shell scripts, and streamlining Prow deployments. He combines pragmatic engineering with a penchant for toolsmithing, reducing dependencies and improving pipeline robustness so teams can ship faster and safer. Notably, his contributions show attention to low-level scripting details and build hygiene that often prevent subtle production issues.
12 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
kubernetes10
docker10
scripting10
testing10
dockers10
cicd10
script10
build-automation10
kubernetes-pods10
sh10
shell10
github-ci9
githubaction-workflow9
go7
scheme6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kyma-project/test-infra
Oct 2021 - Mar 2022
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:68 reviews, 26 commits, 28 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Ammar's primary contributions focused on improving the test infrastructure and CI/CD processes. They updated buildpack images, removed dependencies, and added Dockerfile linting. The user also addressed shellcheck errors, fixed array handling in scripts, and implemented changes related to the deployment and configuration of the Prow setup. They also updated dependencies for various components.
test-kitchenkymatest-infrastructuretestinginfrastructure
ammarlakis/test-infra
Sep 2021 - Apr 2022
Test infrastructure for the Kyma project.
Contributions:2 PRs, 107 pushes, 38 branches in 6 months
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