Available for work

Kawa Mahmud

Site Reliability Engineer

SRE who believes every incident deserves a blameless story.

📍 Dubai, UAE

About

From sysadmin to SRE across e-commerce and gaming. I build observability people trust, chaos-test the scary paths, and write the postmortems everyone reads.

99.99% over 12 months

Chaos engineering advocate

On-call tooling author

Career

Experience

Site Reliability Engineer

GameScale

2021-09 — Present

Maintained 99.99% uptime over 12 consecutive months
Led quarterly chaos-engineering game days across 6 regions

Systems Administrator

ShopFast

2018-01 — 2021-08

Migrated on-prem infrastructure to Kubernetes on AWS

Selected work

Projects

Selected work

Failover drills

Featured

Quarterly region-failover game days — recovery time down from 40 to 6 minutes.

ChaosK8s

oncall-cli

Terminal tool that pulls runbooks, silences alerts and drafts incident notes.

GoCLI

Log pipeline v2

Structured logging rollout: 60% cheaper storage, 10× faster queries.

LokiAnsible

Toolkit

Skills

LinuxKubernetesGoAnsibleGrafana

Education

B.Sc. Information Systems

American University of Sharjah

2014 — 2018

Contact

Get In Touch

kawa@example.com