Walid Zaouch

Consulting and product engineering across DevOps, cloud infrastructure, and AI services for enterprise clients in the DACH

• Migration of docker Compose workloads to Kubernetes (Feb - Apr 2026)

kOps, Cilium, AWS, NGINX Gateway API

Designed and executed a full migration from Docker Compose to Kubernetes on AWS (kOps), deploying a multi-service Java/Spring application (Tomcat, MySQL, Memcached, RabbitMQ, Nginx) across a production cluster with persistent storage for stateful workloads.

• Implemented Kubernetes networking progression: ClusterIP services for internal discovery, NGINX Ingress Controller for external traffic routing, then migrated to Gateway API (NGINX Gateway Fabric via Helm OCI) maintaining zero-downtime DNS switchover via Route 53.

• Configured cloud security fundamentals: IAM-based node authentication Kubernetes Secrets management, Cloudflare SSL termination with proxied mode, mTLS certificate generation, and NGINX Gateway.

• Managed infrastructure provisioning with kOps (cluster state in S3, multi-AZ deployment, kubelet auth hardening) and Helm for controller lifecycle; built Docker multi-stage images with buildx for platform-specific targeting.

• Vehicle wireless charging — Regulated automotive environment

• Designed and delivered Brusa’s Internal Developer Platform (IDP) for the Porsche wireless charging program: self-service CI/CD (Atlassian Bamboo & Azure DevOps), infrastructure provisioning (Terraform + Azure), artifact management (ACR), and observability (Grafana) — unified under a single developer portal used by 40+ engineers.

. Automated SW and artifact release workflows by creating jobs and multistage pipelines, orchestrated using webhooks and pipeline triggers.

• Reduced firmware times to under 30 minutes through multi-stage Docker caching, parallel cross-compilation and incremental build optimization which supported release time build congestion.

• Identified and drove the migration from WSL-based Windows build agents to native Linux/Docker to balance agent license usage, and reduce non deterministic failures.

• Authored the team’s IaC standards using Terraform for Azure infrastructure provisioning.

• Introduced GitOps practices: infrastructure definitions in Terraform, with environment configurations version-controlled in YAML pipeline-as-code.

. Mentored junior DevOps engineers on pipeline design and container best practices, and documented the design and usage of the project

pipeline interdependencies.

• Designed and implemented CI/CT pipelines using Jenkins controllers to orchestrate end-to-end builds, tests, and deployments for Linux-based engineering workflows serving 15+ developers.

• Built CI pipelines for artifact management with JFrog Artifactory; created Docker images for standardized containerized build/test environments, improving reproducibility to 95%+.

• Integrated QEMU ARM emulation into Jenkins pipelines, enabling CI/CT workloads to run cross-architecture on x86 agents for embedded cross-platform validation.

• Integrated webhooks across GitHub, SonarQube, and Jenkins for automated quality gates; worked with Docker, AWS, and Kubernetes for scalable execution environments and IaC-managed configurations.