Mohamed Abukar
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMohamed Abukar is a Staff Platform Engineer with a decade of experience turning fragile, manual setups into resilient, automated cloud platforms across consultancies, fintechs, and product teams. He specializes in Platform Engineering, IaC at scale, Kubernetes, CI/CD and cloud cost and security optimization across AWS, GCP and Azure, and has built GitOps-driven estates, ML platforms, streaming pipelines and internal developer platforms. Mohamed has led high-impact migrations and automation projects at companies like Trainline and Element, including a custom Traefik Terraform provider, Pulsar and Kafka architectures, and production Kubeflow deployments. He pairs deep hands-on skills in Go, Rust and Terraform with developer experience work—creating self-service templates, observability platforms and internal APIs that accelerate teams. An active content creator and mentor with 77k+ followers, he supplements his platform work with OSS tools and a public Everything-Tech repo demonstrating practical scripting and backend projects. He offers pragmatic, security-minded platform strategy and even provides free 30-minute consulting sessions to help startups unblock infrastructure bottlenecks.
5 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Newham Sixth Form College (NewVIc)Langdon AcademyMaster of Science - MS, Advanced Mechanical Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Advanced Mechanical Engineering at Brunel University of London
Arabic, English, Somali, python
Github Skills (6)
backend10
python10
http-request9
beautifulsoup9
go7
frontend3
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
moabukar/Everything-Tech
Oct 2021 - Mar 2022
A collection of online resources to help you on your Tech journey.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 169 commits, 68 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Mohamed primarily contributed to the repository by developing Python code, focusing on projects like crawling and processing data from IMDB, along with basic looping and list operations. They updated and completed a Python project and also added GoLang code for a "Hello, world" program. The user demonstrates a familiarity with both backend logic and basic scripting tasks.
gcppythonserverlessawsdata-science
moabukar/CKA-Exercises
Dec 2021 - Dec 2021
A set of curated exercises to help prepare you for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator Exam by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Contributions:33 commits, 2 PRs, 29 pushes in 9 days
certified-kubernetes-administratorfoundationadministratork8skubernetes
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