Omar Shah
Platform Engineer
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolOmar Shah is a Platform Engineer with nine years of experience building secure, scalable, and developer-friendly cloud platforms, currently based in Amsterdam. He spent three pivotal years as the sole DevOps lead for Jamf School, where he modernized CI/CD with ArgoCD and Jenkins, migrated multi-account AWS to Terraform/Terragrunt, and introduced Backstage to streamline developer experience across 100+ repos. His work delivered measurable outcomes—15% annual AWS cost savings, a 75% reduction in delivery time, SOC2 readiness, and self-service infrastructure for multiple teams. Comfortable across Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub Actions, Python and Bash, he blends deep technical execution with coaching: mentoring engineers, running a DevOps Community of Practice, and embedding DevOps as a company-wide practice. Beyond work he pursues endurance and discipline through running, yoga, and Dutch-style kickboxing, and has explored blockchain development via Cardano and EVM/Solidity courses.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Combined Major, Quantitative Informatics, Bachelor's degree, Combined Major, Quantitative Informatics at Pitzer CollegeBachelor's degree, Combined major, Business Management, Bachelor's degree, Combined major, Business Management at Claremont McKenna CollegeUniversity Exchange, Bachelors, Business, University Exchange, Bachelors, Business at Al Akhawayn UniversityRainier Scholars
English, Arabic
Github Skills (19)
kubernetes10
docker10
cytoscapejs10
htmlwidgets10
cytoscape10
gitops10
network-visualization9
graph-drawing9
shiny9
devops9
paas9
k8s9
functional-programming6
package-manager4
react3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
oshah97/experiments
Jun 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:65 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 1 year 2 months
PriceLab/interactionNetworks
Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:67 pushes, 10 comments, 15 issues in 1 month
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