“Had the opportunity to take a Red Hat OpenShift training led by Ray, and it was an excellent experience. He was highly knowledgeable, approachable, and engaging throughout the course.”
Lead Platform Engineer
Raafat “Ray” Abaid
Modernizing infrastructure, enabling platform teams, and making cloud-native delivery easier to scale.
I help organizations modernize infrastructure, migrate workloads, reduce technical debt, and accelerate platform engineering through Kubernetes, OpenShift, GitOps, automation, security, cloud-native architecture, and Ansible.
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Years Experience
71
Certifications & Badges
2
Degrees
Cloud
Multi-cloud Delivery
Zero → Ops
Teaching & Enablement
OpenShift
Kubernetes
Ansible
Argo CD
GitOps
Bash
Helm Charts
Terraform
Vault
Nomad
GitHub Actions
Tekton
Quay. io
Prometheus
Grafana
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“Ray combines deep technical knowledge with an eagerness to tackle complex challenges, making him a true asset to any development team. He is a strong team player and a great mentor and colleague.”
John Webb
IBM Principal, Account Technical Leader“Raafat possesses remarkable depth of knowledge in Red Hat OpenShift and IBM Sterling. He has a proven track record of implementing these technologies while building trust with clients and colleagues.”
Adolfo Loustaunau
IBM Automation Technical Sales Leader“Ray is the ultimate collaborator with an enthusiastic attitude and offers to help individuals and teams regularly. He has demonstrated his technical capabilities on numerous projects with fantastic results.”
Nick Lopez
Technical Sales Manager“Raafat was an excellent instructor and knew the subject matter incredibly well. He made the learning fun and helped every step of the way with expertise and technical skills.”
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How I Can Help
Hands-on support for teams, leaders, and engineers building modern platform capabilities.
Platform Modernization
Architecture guidance for Kubernetes, OpenShift, GitOps, automation, secrets management, and multi-cloud platform standardization.
Teaching & Enablement
Training for DevOps and platform engineers covering OpenShift, Kubernetes, Helm, GitOps, Bash, Terraform, Vault, and day-two operations.
Mentoring & Career Coaching
Career growth support, technical mentoring, certification preparation, and practical coaching for engineers moving into senior platform roles.
Experience
Selected Experience
Leadership across platform engineering, secure integration, customer enablement, and cloud-native modernization.
Lead Solution Architect | Brand Technical Specialist
Leading solution architecture and technical strategy for cloud-native security, automation, and platform engineering initiatives across enterprise environments.
- Partner with executives and technical teams to design secure, scalable platform strategies centered on Kubernetes, OpenShift, Vault, automation, and modernization.
- Translate business goals into integrated technical architectures that reduce technical debt and accelerate adoption across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
- Deliver workshops, enablement content, solution demos, and advisory guidance for platform, security, and developer teams.
Senior OpenShift Engineer | OpenShift & Kubernetes Instructor
Designed, deployed, and operated enterprise OpenShift environments while training engineers from fundamentals to production-grade operations.
Lead DevOps Engineer | Technical Product Manager
Guided Vault integration with OpenShift, led enablement strategy, automated deployments, and supported secrets management and secure workload authentication patterns.
Senior DevOps Engineer - Client Engineering
Ran client discovery, built reusable cloud assets, mentored engineers, and improved feature value while delivering hybrid and multi-cloud solutions.
DevOps Engineer - Client Engineering
Automated deployments on OpenShift and Kubernetes with GitOps, Argo CD, Helm Charts, Ansible, Terraform, Vault, Git, Github Actions, Tekton, Docker, Podman, and Bash.
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Available for architecture consulting, platform strategy, mentoring, training, and technical enablement.
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- Platform engineering strategy
- Teaching & Enabelment
- Mentor & Career Coach
- OpenShift and Kubernetes enablement
- GitOps and automation modernization
- Mentoring and career coaching
- Secure platform architecture