Mohamed Elsayed
Team Lead at Kubermatic
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMohamed Elsayed is an experienced cloud-native team lead based in Hamburg with 11 years building and operating Kubernetes-driven platforms and open-source tooling. He combines hands-on backend and DevOps expertise—contributing to high-profile projects like Kyma, Rancher RKE and Kubermatic—with leadership experience scaling teams and CI/CD/test infrastructure. His work spans runtime implementations (Python39 for Kyma serverless), cluster lifecycle and networking improvements in RKE, and automating multi-cloud serverless testbeds. Comfortable deep in Linux and container internals, he also brings a practical systems background from large-scale email and hosting platforms, and a knack for performance and reliability engineering that surfaces in vendor updates, safe etcd backup handling, and cloud-provider bug fixes.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Mechnical Engneering, BSc Mechnical Engneering at Alexandria University
Github Skills (29)
dependency-management10
kubernetes10
rke10
docker10
python10
testing10
bash10
etcd10
dockers10
cicd10
gcp10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml10
serverless10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
rancher/rke
Oct 2017 - Oct 2019
Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE), an extremely simple, lightning fast Kubernetes distribution that runs entirely within containers.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:240 commits, 188 PRs, 311 comments in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Mohamed primarily focused on enhancing the RKE (Rancher Kubernetes Engine) project by addressing various issues related to Kubernetes services and infrastructure. Their commits include adding specific configurations for kubeapi, kubelet, and kubecontroller services. They also refactored and enhanced the project's networking and service deployment, incorporating support for network plugins and templating, improving the overall reliability and functionality of the Kubernetes cluster management. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving RKE's capabilities for configuring and managing Kubernetes.
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kyma-project/kyma
Jun 2021 - Dec 2022
Kyma is an opinionated set of Kubernetes-based modular building blocks, including all necessary capabilities to develop and run enterprise-grade cloud-native applications.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:136 reviews, 98 commits, 110 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Mohamed contributed to the implementation of the Python39 runtime for Kyma's serverless functions, including code modifications, documentation updates, and Alpine Linux configuration. They added features to the busola-migrator and updated test suites for python39. They also made changes to the function controller involving deployment updates, Git authentication, and added startup metrics.
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