Summary
Mahmoud Abbas is a Head of IT Operations & Infrastructure with 11 years of experience building and running reliable SaaS platforms from New Cairo, Egypt. He leads cloud and DevOps practices at United OFOQ, owning AWS infrastructure, CI/CD, containerized deployments, observability, and cloud cost optimization. Mahmoud pairs security engineering (IAM, JWT, encryption, SOC2/VAPT response) with platform modernization and incident/disaster recovery leadership to keep production systems resilient. He rose through hands-on roles from Linux system administrator to IT manager and lead systems engineer, giving him deep operational muscle across on-prem, hybrid and cloud environments. Known for coaching teams and driving cross-functional technical decisions, he balances pragmatic automation with architectural improvements. A former freelancer and early hosting operator, he brings practical capacity for scaling infrastructure under real-world constraints.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B. Sc., Marine, B. Sc., Marine at Faculty of Engineering
90.4%, Postgraduate Diploma at Computer Science, B (CGPA 3.2), 90.4%, Postgraduate Diploma at Computer Science, B (CGPA 3.2) at Institute of Statistical Studies and Research (ISSR)
Arabic, English