Yousef Alam
Sr Staff Engineer at Cowbell
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolYousef Alam is a Sr Staff Engineer based in London with 12 years of experience building and operating cloud-native platforms and DevOps organizations. He has led production engineering and platform efforts across fast-growing companies—migrating clusters to scalable EKS, designing Kubernetes reference platforms, and driving SRE/DevOps culture while growing teams and implementing OKRs. Hands-on in backend and infrastructure work, he contributed to Mozilla’s mozillians project by improving Python-backed services, search, Celery workflows and static asset delivery, demonstrating attention to performance and operational robustness. Comfortable across AWS, Terraform, Chef, Mesos and Kubernetes, he repeatedly ships secure, scalable infrastructure for both cloud and on-prem environments. Notably, he pairs technical leadership with practical tooling improvements and has spoken publicly on container security and open-source analytics, signaling a blend of engineering, community engagement and security-first thinking.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, BSc Hons, Computer Science, BSc Hons at University of Greenwich
Github Skills (16)
configuration-management10
celery10
backend10
devops10
back-end-development10
python10
django10
aws9
elasticsearchquery8
elasticsearch8
elasticsearch-api8
amazon-elasticsearch8
redis8
aws-elasticsearch8
dockers7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla/mozillians
Apr 2017 - Feb 2018
Mozilla community directory -- A centralized directory of all Mozilla contributors!
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:65 commits, 64 PRs, 43 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Yousef primarily focused on configuring and improving the backend environment. They added Python's `decouple` library for managing settings, compressed HTML templates to improve performance, integrated support for `whitenoise` for serving static assets, and established Celery tasks with configuration scripts. They also implemented Haystack for search, configured various AWS credentials, and set up the Redis as a Celery broker, improving the project's infrastructure and functionality.
centralizedmozilladirectorymozilliansdjango
mozilla/partinfra-terraform-cloudfrontssl
Jul 2016 - Jan 2018
INACTIVE - http://mzl.la/ghe-archive
Contributions:12 commits, 5 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year 5 months
inactive
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