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Charbel El Khoury

Experience

Outcomes & career history

8+ years designing and operating cloud platforms — from greenfield builds to rescues under pressure. Client details anonymized where required.

Selected engagements

Anonymized project highlights from independent and team-lead work — outcomes first, not logos.

Gaming & rewards

~80% cloud cost reduction under active threat

Full AWS build for high concurrency with DDoS and scanning pressure. Load testing, security hardening, and FinOps tuning.

AWS Redis PostgreSQL Terraform Node.js

Mental-health technology

Greenfield DevOps from zero on GCP

Three environments plus HA production using Cloud Run and private VPCs. Built the company's entire DevOps foundation.

GCP Cloud Run Terraform GitHub Actions

AI marketing SaaS

Stabilized troubled GKE multi-environment setup

Rescued broken Kubernetes infrastructure, optimized cost against real metrics, and upskilled in-house engineers.

GKE Terraform Python MySQL

Career history

Roles and responsibilities — expand any entry for detail.

Jun 2023 – Present

Senior DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Independent · Remote, Lebanon

B2B engagements with startups and scale-ups across healthcare, gaming, and AI — often building DevOps capability from zero.

  • Greenfield multi-environment infrastructure with IaC, autoscaling HA production, and CI/CD
  • FinOps audits and cost optimization — up to ~80% cloud spend reduction
  • Security hardening, DR, and incident response under active threat
  • Team mentoring so client engineers can operate independently
AWS GCP Azure Terraform Kubernetes

Jul 2021 – Jun 2023

DevSecOps Team Lead

Eurisko · Lebanon

Led a team of 6 across 30+ client projects — media/VOD, insurance, banking, and enterprise apps.

  • Architected platforms for burst and sustained traffic with autoscaling and pre-launch load testing
  • Near-zero unplanned downtime through monitoring, alerting, and incident response
  • 50%+ CDN and media-serving cost reductions across multiple projects
  • IaC automation across AWS, Azure, and DigitalOcean; Bitbucket/Jenkins CI/CD
AWS Azure Cloudflare Jenkins ELK

Jul 2019 – Jul 2021

DevOps Engineer

Eurisko · Lebanon

Company-wide DevOps reliability upgrade — from shell-scripted deploys to structured CI/CD on HA architectures.

  • Introduced HA architectures, monitoring, and Bitbucket/Jenkins pipelines
  • Containerized services with Docker; DR and load/performance testing
  • Database tuning (SQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch) and cost optimization
AWS Docker Jenkins Bitbucket

Jul 2020 – Apr 2021

Contract DevOps Engineer

Designhubz · Remote

Concurrent contract — cross-cloud architecture and multi-environment CI/CD for a live product release.

  • Automation scripts, CI/CD, and disaster-recovery protocols
  • Node.js microservices with unit tests to production multi-env release
Node.js ArangoDB GitHub Actions

Dec 2017 – Jul 2019

DevOps & Fullstack Developer

Designer-24 · Lebanon

AWS and Azure infrastructure for high-traffic platforms — validated to ~150K users in testing, ~80K sustained in production.

  • Dockerized deployments across Lambda, EC2, and container nodes
  • Load testing and autoscaling; Azure Bot Framework and Angular frontends
AWS Azure Docker Lambda

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