Bassem Dghaidi
Senior Software Engineer at GitHub
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolBassem Dghaidi is a Senior Software Engineer at GitHub with 13 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and developer tooling. He blends a generalist’s curiosity with deep operational experience, contributing to high-impact open-source projects like GitHub Actions tooling and the actions-runner-controller for Kubernetes. Previously he led technical engagements and solution architecture across EMEA, helped launch a branchless digital bank, and directed a high-impact full-stack bootcamp that achieved strong placement outcomes. Bassem’s hands-on work spans Docker, Helm, Terraform, Packer, and Azure integrations, reflecting a pragmatic focus on deployment automation and reliability. Comfortable moving between code, architecture, and customer-facing roles, he excels at turning ambiguous problems into production-grade systems. Colleagues describe him as methodical yet creatively inclined—seeking the multidisciplinary crossroads that spark novel solutions.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, BSc at American University of Beirut
English, French, Arabic
Stackoverflow
3,175reputation
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62answers
20questions
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Github Skills (40)
caching10
kubernetes10
github-ci10
javascript10
docker10
typescript10
cachemanager10
cloud-infrastructure10
dockers10
terraform10
cicd10
terraformer10
automation10
infrastructure10
azure-blob-storage10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
Link-/ci-cd-intro
Jul 2021 - Dec 2022
Intro to CI/CD 💻 ☁️
Role in this project:
Full-stack & DevOps Engineer
Full-stack & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 116 commits, 28 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Bassem implemented core backend API endpoints, configured and updated the application's infrastructure. They were responsible for configuring the deployment pipeline including adding staging deployment jobs using GitHub Actions, and modifying the nginx configuration. Furthermore, the user worked on setting up the infrastructure using terraform and packer and made multiple code improvements.
aws-elastic-beanstalkdevopsci-cdci-cd-pipelinecontinuous-integration
actions/toolkit
May 2020 - Mar 2025
The GitHub ToolKit for developing GitHub Actions.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:36 reviews, 7 PRs, 55 pushes in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Bassem focused on enhancing the GitHub Toolkit by implementing and integrating features related to cache management. Their contributions involved adding debugging messages, implementing a Twirp client, and integrating V2 cache upload functionality with Azure blob storage. They also addressed the need to use zlib for compression within the cache operations, and added the proper backend ids to ensure functionality. These changes indicate a focus on improving the system's ability to effectively save, restore, and manage cached artifacts.
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