About me

Yakhya has been in the software development industry since 2002. He started his career as a Software Developer, and did it for more than 12 years. Most of the products he helped build were Web Applications and Rest API, using Java OOP, Spring Boot and Relational Database. Agile Principles and Best Practices (XP, TDD, …) have always been his main guideline for efficiently building reliable softwares solutions. Earlier in his career he values Team Collaboration as the most important asset of any successful organisation.

He moved to the cloud in 2014, with a strong focus on Architecture and Security. As a Platform Engineer and Cloud Security Engineer he helps his clients deploy secure and reliable infrastructures in AWS using the most matured techniques and technologies. With all the experiences he has gained in a wide variety of business environments, he can intervene in different stages of your migration journey, whether it’s about building new infrastructure from scratch, improving existing platforms or moving OnPrem environments to the cloud.

Here are a few areas where he has added positive values for his clients:

  • Managing AWS accounts (Organisation, IAM, SSO, AD)

  • Building Infrastructure (VPC, EC2, EKS, Route53, RDS, Transit Gateway, VPN, …​)

  • Securing AWS environments (WAF, Shield, GuardDuty)

  • Leading a Platform Engineer team

  • Enforcing Continuous Delivery principles

  • Enabling DevSecOps culture

Technical stack: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS and Golang