Arash Shams
Staff Engineer at Kaufland e-commerce
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolArash Shams is a staff platform engineer based in Berlin with 11 years of experience designing and operating large-scale cloud and infrastructure platforms. He has led cross-functional teams of up to 120 engineers and founded Digikala Cloud, an internal AWS-like platform that catalyzed his company's largest infrastructure transformation. At Wayfair he optimized batch processing and artifact management clusters, cutting worker counts by over 40% and storage use by 80% while maintaining reliability across thousands of pipelines. Comfortable from bare-metal datacenter builds to distributed microservice architectures, he blends hands-on systems engineering with strong stakeholder communication and developer experience focus. Now at Kaufland e-commerce, he continues to drive cost-efficient, scalable infrastructure solutions informed by real-world migrations and AI platform work. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, high-impact operational improvements that balance performance, cost, and developer productivity.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of Applied Science and Technology
English, Persian
Stackoverflow
186reputation
27kreached
3answers
6questions
Github Skills (157)
terraform10
ssh10
graph10
docker10
ecosystem9
golang9
google-cloud-platform9
floating-ip9
gcp9
google-cloud9
infrastructure-as-code9
container9
go9
outlook8
opennebula8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
Ara4Sh/ansible-role-mariadb-galera
Dec 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:21 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
Ara4Sh/terraform-openstack
Mar 2018 - Mar 2020
Create multiple instances with floating ip assigning on openstack using terraform.
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
floating-ipopenstackterraformdevopsautomation
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