Omar Khawaja
Greater Atlanta Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOmar Khawaja is a DevOps engineer with nine years of experience focused on automating error-prone, time-consuming operational tasks so teams can concentrate on high-value work. Based in the Greater Atlanta Area, he specializes in managing large, dynamic fleets of Linux nodes on AWS using Ansible, Bash, Terraform, and Docker. Omar contributes to notable open-source projects like HashiCorp Nomad—authoring operational guides and improving AWS environment setups—and blends technical writing with hands-on engineering to make complex systems more operable. He maintains a technical blog and public GitHub portfolio, signaling a commitment to knowledge sharing and reproducible infrastructure. An Emory BA graduate, Omar pairs practical infrastructure automation skills with clear documentation to accelerate team productivity and reduce toil.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) at Emory University
Hindi, Urdu
Github Skills (15)
terraformer10
consul10
load-balancing10
terraform10
documentation10
dockers9
vault9
haproxy9
nginx9
docker9
yaml8
aws8
go5
kubernetes4
kubernetes-pods4
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/nomad
May 2018 - Oct 2019
Nomad is an easy-to-use, flexible, and performant workload orchestrator that can deploy a mix of microservice, batch, containerized, and non-containerized applications. Nomad is easy to operate and scale and has native Consul and Vault integrations.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Technical Writer
DevOps Engineer & Technical WriterContributions:76 commits, 154 PRs, 201 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Omar contributed significantly to the documentation and operational aspects of the Nomad project. They authored and updated guides for various features, including load balancing with multiple load balancers, stateful workloads, and preemption. The user was also heavily involved in updating the AWS environment setup scripts and configurations, upgrading versions of HashiCorp products, and enabling services. Furthermore, they added and modified the navigation menu.
vaultperformantmicroserviceworkloadoperate
hashicorp/terraform-aws-vault-ent-starter
Jul 2021 - Jun 2022
A Terraform Module for provisioning an Enterprise Vault cluster (using integrated storage) in AWS as described by HashiCorp reference architecture.
Contributions:6 releases, 5 reviews, 11 commits in 11 months
provisioningintegratedvault-clusterterraform-modulesvault
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