Hamza Kalech

– Designed and deployed a production-grade Kubernetes-based DevOps platform on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), integrating automation, security, monitoring, and AI-driven intelligence. – Infrastructure as Code: Automated provisioning of AKS, VNet, subnets, storage accounts, and resource groups with Terraform. – CI/CD Pipeline: Built a complete Jenkins pipeline covering Git checkout, build, SonarQube analysis, Trivy scanning, Nexus deployment, Docker image packaging, and Kubernetes deployment automation. – GitOps: Integrated ArgoCD for continuous delivery, enabling declarative GitOps workflows and seamless Kubernetes manifest synchronization. – Security & Reliability: • Configured Calico network policies for fine-grained, zero-trust communication between services (frontend → backend → database). • Secured applications with Let's Encrypt SSL and DNS integration for hamzakalech.com. • Implemented automated MySQL backups with Azure Backup & Velero for disaster recovery. – Monitoring & Observability: • Deployed Prometheus and Grafana via Helm with persistent storage. • Configured dashboards, alerts, and metrics exposure through secure ingress. – AI Integration: • Developed and deployed an Anomaly Detection service (Isolation Forest) to monitor system metrics. • Built a Predictive Autoscaling model (Prophet/XGBoost) to forecast CPU & memory usage, integrated with KEDA for intelligent scaling. – Delivered a secure, resilient, and intelligent cloud-native infrastructure that combined DevOps best practices with AI-driven monitoring and scalability. – This experience strengthened my expertise in Terraform, Kubernetes, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Prometheus/Grafana, Calico security, and AI for DevOps automation.