Mohamed Zeineldin

Mohamed Zeineldin is a Cloud Solution Consultant and Tech Lead based in Berlin, Germany, with over 15 years of experience building scalable cloud platforms, leading engineering teams, and driving DevOps transformation at some of Europe’s and the Middle East’s most demanding technology organisations.

He is the founder of DevOps Area — the #1 free Arabic DevOps learning platform — co-founder of PikaDo, and the founder of Egypt IT Events. Across his career in industry and through the platforms he has built, Mohamed Zeineldin has been driven by a single conviction: that great engineering education and excellent infrastructure should be accessible to everyone, regardless of language or geography.

What Mohamed Zeineldin Does

Mohamed Zeineldin works at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, and technical leadership. His core expertise spans:

  • Cloud Architecture — designing and delivering production-grade systems on AWS and GCP
  • Kubernetes & Container Orchestration — cluster design, operations, and optimisation at scale
  • DevOps Transformation — building the engineering culture, tooling, and processes that enable organisations to ship faster and operate more reliably
  • Infrastructure Automation — Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines, GitOps
  • Technical Leadership — leading cross-functional engineering teams, mentoring engineers, and driving operational excellence

Currently, Mohamed Zeineldin serves as Cloud Solution Consultant at EPAM Systems, working on cloud architecture and platform engineering for enterprise clients.

Career Experience

Mohamed Zeineldin has held technical leadership roles across Egypt, Germany, and internationally, building cloud platforms and engineering cultures at:

EPAM Systems — Cloud Solution Consultant
Working with global enterprise clients on cloud architecture, infrastructure strategy, and DevOps transformation. EPAM Systems is one of the world’s leading digital transformation and engineering services companies.

Vodafone — Cloud & DevOps Lead
Led cloud platform and DevOps initiatives at one of the world’s largest telecommunications companies. Experience building high-availability infrastructure at carrier scale.

REWE Digital — Senior Cloud / DevOps Engineer
REWE Digital is the technology arm of one of Europe’s largest retail groups. Responsible for cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platform, and engineering culture across a large-scale e-commerce and logistics technology operation.

GfK — Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer
GfK is a global market research company. Worked on data platform infrastructure, cloud migration, and internal developer tooling.

Projects & Ventures

Beyond his industry career, Mohamed Zeineldin has founded and co-founded several technology initiatives:

DevOps Area — Founder
The #1 free Arabic DevOps learning platform, offering free structured video courses, hands-on GitHub projects, 1-on-1 mentorship, and recruitment support — entirely in Arabic. Rated 4.9/5 as a platform mentor. Serving thousands of engineers across the Arab world.

PikaDo — Co-Founder
AI-powered English learning platform founded in March 2021. Serving 6,000+ students across K12, corporate, and child development sectors. Featured on Shark Tank Egypt (2023), backed by 500 Startups, SIB, and the American University in Cairo.

Egypt IT Events — Founder
Egypt’s IT event discovery platform, publishing and tracking technology conferences, meetups, hackathons, and career events across Egypt since 2012. Covered by Wamda on launch. Serving thousands of Egyptian technology professionals.

Anbooba Project — Creator (2011)
An SMS Gateway-based system to track and protect Egypt’s subsidised gas cylinder distribution from black market diversion. Winner of the Orange Egypt “Mobile for Poor” competition and the TIEC Hayee Competition.

Education

Master’s Degree — FOM Hochschule Berlin
Master in Economics, Berlin School of Business. Combining deep technical expertise with strategic business and economic thinking. → Read about the MBA journey

About This Blog

This blog is Mohamed Zeineldin’s personal space for sharing ideas, lessons, and perspectives from a long journey in technology, entrepreneurship, and building in Egypt and Europe.

Topics include cloud architecture, DevOps practices, engineering leadership, startup building, and the Egyptian and Arab technology ecosystem. Posts are written from direct experience — not theory.

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Recent posts: Chaos Engineering in Kubernetes · Docker Monitoring with Prometheus · CI/CD with Jenkins & Kubernetes · AWS Autoscaling

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Related: DevOps Area — Free Arabic DevOps Courses · PikaDo — English Learning App · Egypt IT Events · Anbooba Project