Mo Kassem
Infrastructure Engineer at Qlik
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMo Kassem is an Infrastructure Engineer with 8 years of experience who transitioned from electrical power and automation into cloud-native software engineering, blending strong theoretical physics and software degrees with hands-on systems work. He builds scalable web and mobile architectures using Java, Python, and Node.js, and operates production infrastructure on AWS (ECS, S3, RDS, API Gateway, DynamoDB) with Docker and Kubernetes. His stack includes relational and NoSQL databases (Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis) and operational security experience in DDoS protection (Incapsula). Known for an interest in concurrency models and distributed systems, he approaches infrastructure as code with a developer-first mindset and a background that uniquely combines power systems engineering, quantum-gravity studies, and practical cloud reliability. Based in Ottawa, he presents a rare mix of rigorous academic training and pragmatic, production-focused cloud engineering.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical Power Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical Power Engineering at Alexandria UniversityPost Graduate Studies, Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Quantum Gravity), 92%, Post Graduate Studies, Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Quantum Gravity), 92% at University of Saskatchewan
Arabic, English
Github Skills (38)
cuelang10
kubectl10
pods10
configurations10
charts9
yaml9
kubelet9
docker8
helm8
kubernetes8
kustomize7
buster7
azerothcore7
k8s7
blackduck7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
qlik-oss/qliksense-k8s
Nov 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:1 release, 98 PRs, 264 pushes in 6 months
qlik-oss/qliksense
Nov 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:82 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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