Summary
Sam Gabrail is a platform engineering and AI infrastructure specialist with nine years of hands-on experience building DevOps pipelines, IaC, and production AI platforms. As founder and President of TeKanAid, he designs practical, demo-driven training and consulting that helps engineers transition into Platform Engineering and AI Architecture while also advising enterprises on AI-ready infrastructure. His background includes senior pre-sales engineering roles at HashiCorp, Sysdig, and Docker, giving him deep product and customer-facing experience across Terraform, Vault, Kubernetes, and MLOps. Sam holds an MASc in Electrical and Computer Engineering and combines academic rigor with a practitioner’s focus on simple, repeatable learning artifacts—his teaching emphasizes “learn by doing” with ready-to-run code. Notably, he tracks industry shifts and prepares teams for the near-term reality that most engineers will need AI skills, bridging the gap between training and deployable production systems.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering - Electronics & Communications, Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering - Electronics & Communications at Ain Shams University
Masters of Applied Science Electrical and Computer Engineering - Communication Networks, Masters of Applied Science Electrical and Computer Engineering - Communication Networks at University of Waterloo
Arabic, English