Hafid Haddouti
Principal Architect at IBM
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolHafid Haddouti is a Principal Architect and RHCA based in Berlin with nine years of focused experience driving cloud, hybrid and multi-cloud transformations, particularly on IBM Cloud and Red Hat OpenShift. He combines hands-on engineering — from microservices and container security to DevOps and scaled Scrum delivery — with enterprise-grade architecture work across finance and large organizations. At IBM he progressed from DevOps Architect to Principal Architect, advising customers and leading modernization and migration efforts while mentoring peers in the IBM Developer Community. An active open-source contributor, he improved IBM Secrets Manager support in the widely used external-secrets project, adding key-value and JSON path handling for Kubernetes Secrets. His certification breadth (OpenShift, Ansible, Camel, API Management, microservices) underscores a practical, automation-first approach to complex systems. Colleagues value him for turning high-level cloud visions into operational platforms that balance security, scalability and developer productivity.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom-Ingenieur Informatik, Diplom-Ingenieur Informatik at Technische Universität Berlin
German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
secret-management10
json10
secrets-manager10
kubernetes10
external-secrets10
go10
api10
apidoc10
kubernetes-pods10
testing9
sql-server6
jpa6
hibernate6
business-process-management6
swing6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
external-secrets/external-secrets
Mar 2022 - Mar 2022
External Secrets Operator reads information from a third-party service like AWS Secrets Manager and automatically injects the values as Kubernetes Secrets.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 19 commits, 2 PRs in 19 days
Contributions summary:Hafid primarily focused on enhancing the IBM Secrets Manager provider within the `external-secrets` project. Their contributions include adding support for the "kv" secret type, allowing the retrieval of key-value pairs from IBM Cloud Secrets Manager. They implemented the necessary logic for fetching and parsing secrets, handling both direct key access and JSON path queries within the payload. The user also made iterative improvements, addressing lint and formatting issues, and refactoring code for better maintainability.
external-secretspartyexternal-secrets-operatorsecret-managementsecrets-manager
haf-tech/tekton-101
Mar 2020 - May 2023
Tekton Pipeline 101
Contributions:2 reviews, 7 PRs, 92 pushes in 3 years 1 month
pipelinetektontekton-pipelinenodejskubernetes
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