Ahmed Tolba

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A Site Reliability Engineer with over a decade of experience building and operating scalable, resilient systems. I specialize in infrastructure automation, observability, and backend engineering — with a proven track record across industries including DevOps tooling, fintech, and consumer platforms. At GitLab, I contributed to several areas, including automating parts of the release process, rebuilding Kubernetes clusters, and bringing back the hot-patching system for production environments. I also improved the overall systems by using other tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and Thanos, Terraform, Chef, and Ansible for automation tasks. The goal was always to make things more reliable and reduce manual work where possible. Prior to that, at Erste Bank, I helped modernize legacy applications by migrating them to Kubernetes and ECS, while leading the design of highly available monitoring infrastructure and alerting systems. At Adidas Runtastic, I worked on payment integrations with providers like Adyen, PayPal, Apple, and Google, and contributed to the company's first-wide adoption of SLOs and error budgets. My technical toolkit includes Go, Ruby, Python, Bash, Linux, Kubernetes, AWS, CI/CD, PostgreSQL, and more. I thrive in fast-paced environments where infrastructure, reliability, and automation intersect with product velocity.