Hamdy Atakora
Ashburn,VA
Summary
Results-driven Lead, Applications Developer accustomed to overseeing operations with strong attention to detail. History of meeting demanding group objectives through employee training, motivation and performance management. Brings both cutting-edge business applications solutions development expertise and exceptional interpersonal skills to leadership roles. Working knowledge of optimal practices and safety behaviors for deploying infrastructure, configuration business applications, and automating business processes.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Lead, Applications Developer - UiPath
Alarm.com
McLean, VA
04.2019 - Current
- Maintained, debugged and optimized automation programs.
- Created and maintained the Solution Design Document (SDD) and Process Design Document (PDD) including detailed RPA solution process flows, processes, and technical specification
- Improved growth and adoption of RPA technologies across the organizations.
- Served as primary SME on RPA processes and worked with application vendors on function support issues and roadmaps
- Built RPA process integrating newer and legacy Web Services/RESTFUL APIs/SOAP APIs
- Worked with Project Manager and Business Analysts from various teams to define and deliver business impacting robotic process automations
- Tested troubleshooting methods, and devised innovative solutions /documentation for performing code reviews
- Authored code fixes and enhancements for RPA processes releases and patches
- Built and configured a highly scalable infrastructure behind the RPA platform (UiPath) leveraged by my team and other developers
- Trained and managed team of developers on RPA technologies and and processes.
Lead, Applications Developer - Atlassian
Alarm.com
McLean, VA
04.2019 - Current
- Configured, administered, and maintained self-hosted Atlassian applications (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo, Fisheye+Crucible, and VisualSVN) in highly available environment using both Windows and Linux servers in Azure
- Configured, administered, and maintained multiple cloud instances of Jira Software, Jira Service Management ( formerly Jira Service Desk), and Bitbucket
- Designed, developed, implemented , and maintained various custom workflows , screens, dashboards, fields, permission schemes, post functions, listeners, and scheduled jobs
- Performed various migrations and merges of Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket from acquisitions
- Developed various plugins for Jira and Confluence using Atlassian SDK, Apache Groovy, and Java
- Developed and deployed automated terraform scripts for deploying VMs in Azure for Atlassian Applications
- Built and deployed Puppet configurations for applying/enforcing configurations on all nodes
- Lead and trained team of other atlassian administrators as well as users on best practices for administering/using atlassian applications
- Performed yearly renewals of licenses for all Atlassian applications by working with vendors and Atlassian partners
- Performed performance testing and tuning on all systems running self hosted atlassian applications
- Built and automated log aggregation processes for shipping Atlassian Applications logs into SumoLogic for alerting on issues and building visualizations, as well as dashboards
- Deployed telegraf agents on all VMs for monitoring and collecting system metrics for visualization in Wavefront and alerting via PagerDuty
- Developed solutions for the CM team for integrating build processes in bamboo and CI/CD pipelines
Information Security Engineer
General Dynamics IT
Herndon, VA
06.2018 - 04.2019
- Installed, configured, tested, and maintained a new security information and event management system using the Elastic Stack ( Elasticsearch, Logstash, Filebeat, and Kibana)
- Prepared various security reports on findings of suspicious activities from logs and other events
- Implemented and maintained key security tools such as falcon crowdstrike endpoint security and azure endpoint protection
- Monitor logs and perform threat hunting operations with occasional on-call duties
- Installed, configured and deployed threats hunting and network security monitoring tools such as SecurityOnion
- Served as SME on current privacy and security trends and recommendations to mitigate risk.
- Developed, implemented, and documented security programs and policies and monitored compliance across departments
IT Systems Administrator
Iron Bow Technologies
Herdon, VA
10.2017 - 06.2018
Education
Master of Science - Data Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD06.2023
Bachelor of Science - Cybersecurity
George Washington University, The
Washington, DC06.2019
Associate of Science - Information Technology And Security
Springfield Technical Community College
Springfield, MA06.2017
Skills
- Data Storage and Retrieval
- API Design and Development and Code and Quality Standards
- Agile/Scrum Methodology
- Programming Languages: Java, C#, Net, Python, Bash
- Uipath (RPA Software), Power Automate
- Microsoft Azure, AWS, Azure Templates, Terraform
- Windows and Linux Administration
- MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Secret Server, ServiceNow
- Puppet Hierra, Octopus Deploy, Ansible
- Active Directory and LDAP Integrations, OKTA and SSO Deployment
- Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo, Git, SVN, Jenkins, Artifactory, Configuration Management, CI/CD, Docker
- PowerBi, SumoLogic, ElK, Microstrategy, Wavefront, Pagerduty
Certification
- Atlassian Expert - Multiple Certifications
- UiPath Advanced Developer
- Security+
Timeline
Lead, Applications Developer - UiPath
Alarm.com
04.2019 - Current
Lead, Applications Developer - Atlassian
Alarm.com
04.2019 - Current
Information Security Engineer
General Dynamics IT
06.2018 - 04.2019
IT Systems Administrator
Iron Bow Technologies
10.2017 - 06.2018
Master of Science - Data Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
Bachelor of Science - Cybersecurity
George Washington University, The
Associate of Science - Information Technology And Security
Springfield Technical Community College
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