Shabbir Akolawala
DevX at Careem
United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolShabbir Akolawala is a seasoned DevOps evangelist and solution architect with over 15 years of experience designing, deploying, and operationalizing application platforms, currently serving as DevX at Careem in the UAE. He combines hands-on skills in CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Jenkins, Elasticsearch and AWS with strategic delivery of platform services to optimize business outcomes across industries from construction and publishing to travel and finance. Known for bridging technical and commercial conversations, he has led pre-sales, vendor evaluations and cost negotiations while managing multi-vendor engagements for clients like Citibank, Barclays and Amadeus. Certified in TOGAF, ITIL, PMP and MCP, he brings disciplined architecture and delivery practices to complex, classified environments. Beyond tooling, he emphasizes lean processes and observability—Prometheus and Grafana are staples of his operational playbook—and shares insights in his technical blog.
11 years of coding experience
BE, Construction, BE, Construction at Mumbai UniversityHoly Name High School
Arabic
Github Skills (49)
docker10
zeromq10
python10
configuration-management10
infrastructure-management10
infrastructure10
scale10
salt10
remote-execution10
coverage9
package-repository9
devops9
automation9
infrastructure-as-code9
saltstack9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sbrakl/bulbasaury-bot
Nov 2021 - May 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
sbrakl/dockercpumonitor
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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