Fahad Aba-Alkhail
Ottawa, Canada
I'm a Computer Science student passionate about building scalable cloud infrastructure and backend systems. I enjoy turning complex problems into clean, reliable solutions.
Education
University of Ottawa
BSc Computer Science
Experience
Ericsson
Software Engineer
- Deployed the FST Analysis platform on Kubernetes with horizontal pod autoscaling and ingress controllers for AI-driven fault analysis
- Led migration of ADAT analytical workloads from MapR to Amazon S3, reducing data access latency by 35% for petabyte-scale datasets
- Built an integrity validation framework benchmarking 50+ critical metrics, achieving zero data loss across production migration
Moneymoon
Backend & DevOps Engineer
- Architected microservices on AWS (EC2, RDS, S3) with Docker and Kubernetes, improving uptime to 99.5%
- Designed RESTful services with JWT auth, rate limiting, and optimized query plans, reducing API latency by 20%
- Authored Terraform IaC modules for OCI and AWS with remote state locking, cutting provisioning time by 60%
HAMS.AI
DevOps Engineer
- Stood up production GKE infrastructure from scratch for an AI voice agent platform with multi-cluster Terraform deployments
- Deployed a full VictoriaMetrics monitoring stack and built 3 Grafana dashboards for pipeline health and cluster overview
- Cut cloud compute spend by 30% via dynamic autoscaling, node pool right-sizing, and workload identity for secure IAM
Skills
Languages
Cloud & DevOps
Backend
Monitoring & QA
Networking & Infra
Interests
How I Work
Development Process
I take an iterative approach to building things. I start by understanding the problem, then prototype quickly and get feedback early. I use Git for version control, set up CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments, and try to keep environments reproducible with infrastructure-as-code when possible.
What I'm Learning
Right now I'm taking SEG3125 - Analysis and Design of User Interfaces at uOttawa. The course covers visual communication, usability heuristics, and user-centered design.
Design Principles
- Visual Communication
Using color, typography, and spacing to guide users through content and convey meaning without relying on text alone.
- Accessibility
Making sure interfaces work for everyone - proper contrast, keyboard nav, semantic HTML, and screen reader support.
- Responsive Design
Building layouts that work across all screen sizes without breaking.
