Housni Yakoob
Principal DevOps Engineer at Modus Create
Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
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SeniorHousni Yakoob is a Principal DevOps Engineer with over two decades of software experience and a focused DevOps career since 2015, driving CI/CD, automation, and reliable cloud infrastructure from Nairobi. He blends deep Bash expertise with AWS, Jenkins Pipelines, Terraform, Ansible and container tooling to raise team delivery quality and maintainable build processes. A pragmatic engineer, he has improved open-source Bash tooling for portability and Shellcheck compliance, and he created a Bash library (Sheldon) to tame repetitive tasks—evidence of his emphasis on code standards and developer ergonomics. Housni’s background as a PHP developer, Linux administrator and startup founder gives him a rare full-stack operational perspective that informs scalable, auditable automation.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
English, Sinhalese, Tamil
Stackoverflow
973reputation
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31questions
Github Skills (19)
shellcheck10
scripting10
bash10
devops10
automation9
automations9
cicd7
dockers7
docker7
wamp6
filter6
php6
aop6
sqlite6
validation6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
gruntwork-io/bash-commons
Oct 2018 - Nov 2018
A collection of reusable Bash functions for handling common tasks such as logging, assertions, string manipulation, and more
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:21 commits, 1 PR, 27 comments in 21 days
Contributions summary:Housni primarily focused on improving the project's code quality and maintainability. They updated the shebang in several Bash scripts to ensure portability and made scripts compatible with Shellcheck. The user also introduced a `bootstrap.sh` script to set Bash options and separated Shellcheck tests. These changes suggest a focus on code standards and build process improvements.
manipulationscriptingassertionsstringdevops
ModusCreateOrg/notes-app-ionic-pro
Mar 2018 - Jul 2018
This is sample application built with Ionic to demonstrate the tools & services provided by Ionic Pro.
Contributions:37 commits, 7 PRs, 105 pushes in 4 months
ionic-frameworkionicsample-applicationangulartypescript
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