Hi, I’m Karim Aouini,

striving to become a DevOps, skilled as a Solution Architect, System Administrator and Web Developer from Berlin, Germany.

If you want to know more about my professional side checkout my Skills & Biography or my Projects and feel free to Contact me if you have any questions or suggestions.

View CVs

Biography (PDF)
Tech CV (PDF)

Skills

Certifications

AWS Cloud Practitioner
AWS Solutions Architect (ongoing)
LPIC-1 (ongoing)

AWS-Cloud

Simple Storage Service (S3)
Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Auto Scaling
Lambda
Elastic Container Service (ECS)
Fargate
Relational Database Service (RDS)
DynamoDB
DocumentDB
Elasticache
Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Cognito
API Gateway
Route 53
Simple Queue Service (SQS)
Simple Notification Service (SNS)
Elastic Beanstalk
Cloud Formation
Virtual Private Cloud
Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)
CloudWatch
Well-Architected Tool

Programming Languages

Backend

Javascript - ES 5, ECMA 2018, Node JS v 16/18+
Python - v 3.10+
AWS Lambda, API-Gateway
NGINX, Apache, Let’s Encrypt
Rust, Go, Java (basics)

Frontend

React - 18.+, Express 4.18+, TypeScript, Angular
HTML, CSS, Javascript
Markdown

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Terraform, HCL - v 18.+
CloudFormation
YAML, JSON

Containerization & Orchestration

Docker (Compose, Swarm, ECS)
Kubernetes

DevOps

GitHub, GitLab
CI/CD
Ansible

Operating Systems

Linux 5.1+ (Debian 11.+, Ubuntu 16.4+, Arch, Amazon Linux 1 & 2)
Windows
macOS

Databases

MongoDB, DocumentDB
CouchDB, DynamoDB
PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MySQL, RDS
Redis, Elasticache

Tools

VCS: Git, GitHub, GitLab
Jira, Confluence, Trello, Scrum
Vim, NeoVim, VSCode
Sh, Bash, Zsh
Tmux, Qtile, Alacritty
PowerShell
Draw.io, Excalidraw, Canva
Miro, Figma

Languages

German (native)
Arabic (native)
English (C1)
French (C1)
Italian (B2)

Biography

Continuing Education

DevOps Engineering Course

February 2022 - Ongoing

12 month full time apprenticeship in Cloud Computing at Techstarter GmbH, stemming certification as “IT-Professional for Cloud Computing & DevOps“ and AWS Solution Architect.

Contents

EC2, ECS, SQS, SNS, SES, API, Lambda, IAM, VPC, S3, RDS
Containerization & Orchestration (Docker & Kubernetes)
Cloud Monitoring & Metrics (Prometheus, Grafana)
Infrastructure as Code (IaC - Terraform, Ansible)
Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
Linux, System Administration
Networking & Security
Databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB)
Agile Software-Development (Scrum)
Software Testing
NodeJS, Python, Bash

Projects

Provisioning of a Microservices Infrastructure via Terraform
- capitalizing on Lambda, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB, S3 & API-Gateway as Microservices Architecture.
- The minimalistic HTML-Frontend enables users to list available messages by UUID, sender & recipient, to leave a password protected message or retrieve a message with the right password.
- The messages are passed through Lambda which handles the PGP Encryption and password verification.
Development of a Containerized fullstack WebApp
- built on a MERN Stack.
- The App leverages OAuth2 & OpenIDConnect for social login through Google Identity Servcies.
- Users can search and ali places to their profile along personal notes and dates.
- Open-Street-Map is embelied with Leaflet and reverse geocoding through the Nominatim API

Work Experience

Aouini Services & Consultancy

07/2020 - 01/2023

Self employed consultancy for small scale fruit & vegetable producers in addition to interior landscaping for gastronomy.

Projects

Interior Landscaping
- Refreshing gastronomic and cultural spaces with well designed and thoroughly planned plant installations.
- Combining modern LED technology & aeroponics to ensure striving plants in difficult environments.
Consultancy & Contractor
- Supporting small scale producers in crop management and seasonal workloads.

Bellmer GmbH

10/2021 - 05/2022

Assisstant Manager

Projects

Digitalization: Work documentation and process digitization using Jira, Confluence and Slack
Automation: Stock & Purchase automation through Hypersoft
Controlling: Stock taking & ordering, Work scheduling

Education

BSc. Horticulture

October 2012 - August 2016

Berliner Hochschule für Technik

Electrical Engineering

October 2011 - August 2012

TU Berlin

High School Diploma

June 2010

Schiller Gymnasium

Projects

Containerized Full-Stack WebApp

Battuti

A travel planning website with user registration and open street maps, leveraging social login via Open ID Connect, OAuth2 and Google Identity Services.
Open Street Map was embelied through Leaflet. Geolocation search reverse geocoding is handled by the Nominatim API
Built in a MERN Stack, using MongoDB Atlas.
Link following soon

Vanilla HTML, CSS, JavaScript

QuizMe

A local multiplayer & in browser game.
You can choose the number of players, the categories and difficulties of the questions.
It is designed to load your own questions catalogue into it.
Built with HTML, CSS and Javascript
Link following soon

Contact

Feel free to contact me:

karim@aouini.de

+49 176 96 751 369

Karim on LinkedIn

Karim on GitHub