Abdulla Mahfood

Senior Software Developer & DevOps Engineer building, deploying and maintaining the applications the business runs on, in Docker containers on Ubuntu servers.

• Build and maintain REST/JSON APIs in Node.js, Express.js and TypeScript for internal and external systems, kept secure as they grow.
• Design and tune database schemas and queries in MariaDB and Knex.js.
• Set up CI/CD pipelines, versioning workflows and zero-downtime deployments across environments.
• Run and secure the production Linux servers: monitoring, performance tuning, backups, logging, hardening and troubleshooting.
• Design and run containerised environments with Docker & Docker Compose, so every environment matches and releases go out quickly.
• Work with teams across the business on the software they depend on daily.
• Track errors, trace distributed logs and watch API performance.
• Lead the debugging, root-cause analysis and incident response when a production platform is in trouble.

• Node.js
• TypeScript
• Docker
• CI/CD
• MariaDB
• Linux

Built and looked after the APIs behind a set of web and mobile platforms.

• Designed, built and maintained the APIs behind web and mobile platforms, and the integrations that hang off them.
• Ran the cloud infrastructure on AWS and GCloud, with an eye on what it cost as well as what it could take.
• Looked after the servers and databases underneath, and answered quickly when one of them went wrong.
• Owned the JWT and Passport.js flows and the validation on the way in, so the data stayed what it said it was.
• Mentored junior engineers and reviewed their code, which is where most of the standards actually got set.

• AWS
• GCloud
• JWT
• Passport.js
• Security

Owned cloud infrastructure and end-to-end web application delivery.

• Managed large cloud deployments and kept them fast, secure and inside the budget.
• Led web application design and development from the first sketch to the live site.
• Built the backend APIs and the infrastructure under them, and ran the production deployments.
• Wrote the security policies for cloud-hosted data and kept it on the right side of the regulations.

• Cloud
• Web Apps
• APIs
• Compliance

Set the technology direction and led the IT function through a modernisation.

• Set the technology strategy and the IT roadmap the business worked to.
• Led the IT team through a set of architecture changes and the day-to-day running of the place.
• Oversaw the IT infrastructure, its security and the compliance standards it had to meet.
• Pushed for moving the applications onto current frameworks, which paid down the technical debt they had been carrying.

• Leadership
• Architecture
• Strategy
• Compliance