Benjamin Akhras-Research Engineer
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Experience
Research Engineer
AIT - Austrian Institute of Technology
- Developed Taranis AI, an advanced open-source intelligence (OSINT) tool, leveraging artificial intelligence to revolutionize information gathering and situational analysis.
- Created cybersecurity trainings and a cyber range to provide hands-on learning experiences for SOC teams and IT management.
- Designed and implemented a hybrid cloud infrastructure using OpenStack, Terraform, and Ansible, improving the scalability and performance of the infrastructure and led the migration from an on-site only infrastructure to the hybrid cloud environment.
- Some of my current work can be found on GitHub.
System Programmer
BMLV - Federal Ministry of Defence
- As a site reliability engineer, contributed to the development of core infrastructure and led the planning and implementation of system and network architecture for classified military networks, including the renewal of the logging and monitoring infrastructure.
- Switched from a legacy ELK stack with local monitoring to a TIG (InfluxDB3 + Grafana) with distributed Icinga monitoring for a decentralized infrastructure.
- Designed network and system architecture for various classified systems, from planning to implementation.
- Implemented system software in Python and Go.
- Reviewed source code and planned and held trainings on CI/CD, Git, and agile development.
DevOps Engineer
Emakina CEE
- Performed DevOps engineering for the server environment of shop.billa.at, merkurmarkt.at, and adeg.at for the REWE Group.
- Installed, set up, and maintained a heterogeneous server environment on a VMware cluster and AWS.
- Introduced various DevOps tools and techniques, including CI with TeamCity and GitLab CI and deployments with Docker.
- Conducted trainings in DevOps techniques, decreasing time to go live.
Linux Server Administration
BMLVS - Federal Ministry of Defence
- Installed, set up, and maintained the core mailing infrastructure based on Postfix, OpenLDAP, and IBM Domino server.
- Developed various backend services in Python, integrating and improving groupware.
Java Developer
INNOC
- Java software development for the Roboat project.
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Experienced in Information Technology, Aerospace and Defense, Retail, and Government and Administration.
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Experienced in Information Technology, Product Development, Research and Development, and Operations.
Summary
Over 9 years of experience working in various roles from as DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer to Python Software Engineer.
Skills
- It Operations
- Unix (Redhat, Debian, Ubuntu, Freebsd)
- Cloud (Openstack, Aws)
- Ansible
- Terraform
- Puppet
- Nginx
- Postfix
- Openldap
- Git
- Docker
- Python
- Go
- Typescript
- Javascript
- Golang
- Ruby
- Java
- C
- C++
- Php
- Backend Development
- Fullstack Development
- Devops Engineering
- Software Engineering
Languages
Education
University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien
Bachelor of Science, Information and Communication Systems and Services · Information and Communication Systems and Services · Vienna, Austria
HTL Spengergasse
Electronic data processing and IT Operations · Vienna, Austria
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Benjamin speaks the following languages: German (Native), English (Advanced), Spanish (Advanced).
Benjamin has at least 14 years of experience. During this time, Benjamin has worked in at least 5 different roles and for 5 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 3 years and 10 months. Note that Benjamin may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.
Based on recent experience, Benjamin would be well-suited for roles such as: Research Engineer, System Programmer, DevOps Engineer.
Benjamin's most recent position is Research Engineer at AIT - Austrian Institute of Technology.
In recent years, Benjamin has worked for AIT - Austrian Institute of Technology and BMLV - Federal Ministry of Defence.
Benjamin is most experienced in industries like Information Technology, Aerospace and Defense, and Retail. Benjamin also has some experience in Government and Administration.
Benjamin is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology, Product Development, and Research and Development. Benjamin also has some experience in Operations.
Benjamin has recently worked in industries like Aerospace and Defense and Information Technology.
Benjamin has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology, Product Development, and Research and Development.
Benjamin holds a Bachelor in Information and Communication Systems and Services from University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien.
Benjamin has 1 certificate: Certified AWS Solution Architect.
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