Kifah Abbad
Senior Cloud Architect at IBM
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolKifah Abbad is a Senior Cloud Architect based in Berlin with 12 years of experience designing and delivering cloud-native and devops solutions for automotive and enterprise clients. He blends hands-on engineering (Kubernetes, GitOps, AWS Serverless) with architecture design, having led cloud projects at IBM and Volkswagen and previously managed teams and microservice architectures. His background spans mobile (Flutter), TypeScript backends, and legacy-to-modern migrations, reflecting a rare full-stack-to-infrastructure fluency. A long-time tech creator since the late ’90s, he also has public-facing experience explaining web security from his consulting work with BBC Arabic. He emphasizes high code quality practices (TDD, DDD, SOLID) and mentoring, proven across startup and corporate environments. This combination of deep systems knowledge and communication skills makes him effective at turning complex distributed requirements into pragmatic, production-ready solutions.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Electric Engineering-Telecommunications, 2.0 (B+), Master's degree, Electric Engineering-Telecommunications, 2.0 (B+) at Technische Universität Berlin
German, English, Arabic
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (73)
soap-client10
amazon-sqs9
wamp9
soap9
node-soap9
beanstalkd9
job-queue8
message-passing8
rabbitmq8
javascript8
rabbit8
rabbitmq-client8
aws8
gearman8
doctrine-dbal8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Kifah/KifDoctrineToTypescriptBundle
Sep 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:49 commits in 1 month
Kifah/symfony-api-example
Apr 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:22 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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