Adnan Alshar

Senior Platform Engineer at Eneco

Apr 2026 – Present

Platform Consultant at Xebia

May 2023 – Mar 2026

• Spearheaded the platform engineering initiative, sharing knowledge on tools and best practices across the organisation.
• Provided consultancy and hands-on support to client teams in implementing and optimizing Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines and continuous monitoring solutions.

Senior DevOps Engineer at Dustin

Jun 2022 – Apr 2023

• Led the initiative to introduce Platform Engineering principles, creating and implementing Proof of Concepts (PoCs) that standardized the creation and maintenance of new applications, resulting in a 30% reduction in application deployment time.
• Provided guidance on Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure best practices for applications hosted on Kubernetes and serverless architectures, optimizing resource utilization and reducing cloud costs by 20%.
• Onboarded 15+ new applications to Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines using GitLab CI and ArgoCD, automating deployments and improving release reliability.

API/DevOps Engineer at AppyThings

Sep 2021 – May 2022

• Automated infrastructure provisioning for the API management platform (Apigee) using Terraform, reducing time to market for new APIs by 40% and freeing up 50 engineering hours per month.
• Designed and implemented Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines for API proxies, standardizing build, test, deploy, and versioning stages, and improving deployment frequency by 3x.

Senior DevOps Engineer at Bank al Etihad

Jul 2019 – Aug 2021

• Led the onboarding of multiple new applications to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and on-premises infrastructure, streamlining deployments and improving scalability.
• Implemented Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform for Amazon Web Services (AWS), automating infrastructure provisioning and reducing deployment time by 60%, while ensuring standardization and increasing deployment velocity.
• Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, achieving 100% automation of application deployments from development to production.
• Enhanced monitoring, logging, and alerting capabilities using New Relic and ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), enabling proactive issue detection and reducing mean time to identification (MTTI) by 40%.

DevOps Engineer at POSRocket

Jul 2018 – Jun 2019

• Led the deployment of a new production environment with a highly available, fault-tolerant, microservices-based infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS) within the first two months, utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (AWS CloudFormation) for automation.
• Automated production deployments using Jenkins, reducing time to production by 50% and improving release cadence.
• Implemented logging and monitoring with the ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) and AWS CloudWatch, providing developers with actionable insights and reducing issue diagnosis time by 60%.

Senior Development Specialist at Arab Bank

Apr 2017 – Jun 2018

• Led the implementation of a CI/CD pipeline for the mobile application using Jenkins, Git, and Artifactory, reducing deployment frequency from monthly to weekly and decreasing release cycle time by 75%.
• Designed and delivered DevOps training to a team of 10 engineers, increasing their CI/CD proficiency by 50% and establishing DevOps best practices across the development lifecycle.
• Architected and presented a Proof of Concept (PoC) for Apigee, securing buy-in for its full implementation and enabling centralized API management for 5+ applications.
• Spearheaded the adoption of AppDynamics as the bank's primary observability solution, providing real-time application performance monitoring and reducing mean time to identify (MTTI) application issues by 30%.

Systems Engineer at Diyar United Company

Oct 2016 – Mar 2017

• Led a large-scale migration of 8,000 users across 10+ countries from MS Office to Office 365 for Alshaya, achieving a 95% user adoption rate and minimizing disruption to business operations by implementing a phased rollout plan.
• Managed a 6-member on-call support team, reducing average incident resolution time by 20% and maintaining 99.9% system stability through proactive monitoring and rapid response to critical issues.