Karim El-Ayoubi

From PowerShell to Kubernetes
Before starting my current role, I spent over three years immersed in automation and cloud infrastructure. During my IT specialist apprenticeship (2021–2024) at a healthcare company with over 1000 employees, I worked across various IT departments and eventually specialized in DevOps.
After completing my training, I continued there as a Junior DevOps Engineer, focusing on:

• CI/CD with Azure DevOps
• Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
• Configuration Management using Ansible
• Cloud operations in Microsoft Azure

This phase gave me a solid base in automating complex systems and deploying scalable infrastructure.

A New Chapter
In January 2025, I joined a new organization — and with it came a completely new tech stack. I transitioned from a Microsoft-heavy environment (Windows, PowerShell, Azure) to a setup driven by macOS, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, and OTC Cloud.
This shift was intense. I had to relearn my workflow, dive into new tools, and get comfortable fast. My focus areas quickly became:

• Docker & Kubernetes for container orchestration
• Linux for scripting and day-to-day operations
• AWS & OTC for cloud infrastructure

A personal highlight: I took the lead on a full Atlassian Suite migration, introducing Jira and Confluence to the team and aligning workflows around them. At the same time, I optimized and stabilized legacy pipelines in Bamboo, integrating AWS and Cloudflare into our deployment flow.

Building Infrastructure
I also worked extensively with Terraform, building five custom modules for the OTC Cloud — including networking and IAM — to ensure consistent and scalable environments.
Meanwhile, in my Homelab, I set up a full K3s cluster on a Proxmox host. I used Ansible for provisioning and integrated ArgoCD for continuous delivery. That setup became a sandbox for experimentation and has helped me sharpen my skills in CI/CD, GitOps, and Kubernetes-based workflows.

We are currently exploring a new self-hosted CI/CD platform that combines code hosting and pipeline management — I’m excited to help shape this next phase.

Currently
I’m working as a DevOps Engineer with a strong focus on:

• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• AWS

Every week brings new challenges, and I’m constantly growing — both technically and personally.

On the blog
I regularly share insights from my Homelab, cloud experiments, and automation work. If you’re into real-world DevOps, infrastructure as code, or want to see what works (and what doesn’t) in automation — stay tuned.

A bit more personal
raised in the 90s — curious by nature and driven by systems that scale.