Tadios Abebe.
I build IT Infrastructure !
A cloud and systems engineer, building resilient infrastructure with automation, observability, and high availability at its core.
Selam ! I am
Featured Posts
Wedding Invitation and RSVP Portal
Recently, I started a project that came out of a discussion with my childhood friend while planning his wedding. As we were looking at vendors that print wedding invitation cards, we quickly realized …
Demystifying Server Memory
For a long time, I used to populate server memory mostly based on common sense and experience, not really on a deep technical understanding of why things worked the way they did. Back then, it was …
Overlay Mesh Networks - Introduction
In order for devices to communicate with each other, they need some sort of: Direct connectivity (being in the same L2 LAN), Routed network (a properly defined route between the different LANs), or …
Build your own `What's My Ip` service
If you’ve ever struggled to find the public IP address of a server, especially when you only have CLI access, you’re not alone. There are services out there like ifconfig.me, ipify.org, and others. …
Modern Zabbix HTML Template for Mail …
Zabbix provides powerful alerting features, and customizing email templates can significantly improve readability and response efficiency. Below is a fully styled HTML email template tailored for …
High Availability With Keepalived and …
In a production environment, ensuring your infrastructure is always available is critical. Combining HAProxy (for load balancing) and Keepalived (for automatic failover) provides a robust solution for …
About Me
Senior Cloud and Systems Engineer with a background in Electrical and Computer Engineering and extensive experience designing, deploying, and managing scalable cloud and infrastructure platforms. Skilled across compute, storage, networking, virtualization, security, and Linux based systems, with a strong focus on reliability, performance, automation, and cost efficiency.
Strong advocate for open-source technologies, with hands-on experience leveraging them to build secure, enterprise grade platforms and modern infrastructure solutions.
Combines technical experience along with leadership roles working closely with cross functional teams, contributing to technical directions, and focuses on improving operation. Always learning and building practical solutions that align with fundamental business needs.
My tech stack includes:
Experiences
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Zergaw
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Huawei
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CiTCoT
I currently serve as a Lead Cloud Engineer at Zergaw Cloud, where I oversee the architecture, execution, and optimization of cloud infrastructure projects.
- Designing and implementing resilient cloud infrastructure solutions, with a strong focus on open-source technologies.
- Maintaining and optimizing cloud environments to ensure high availability, scalability, and performance.
- Troubleshooting and resolving complex cloud-related issues, minimizing service disruptions.
- Planning and leading the smooth execution of technical projects to ensure timely delivery.
- Leading and mentoring a team of cloud engineers through guidance, and performance evaluations.
In my earlier role at Zergaw Cloud, I focused on building and maintaining both private and public cloud environments tailored for high-availability services.
- Architected and implemented private and public cloud infrastructures leveraging tools and hypervisors such as KVM, Proxmox, OpenStack, and Apache Cloudstack.
- Implemented a multi-site active monitoring solution incorporating SMS alerting with Zabbix.
- Successfully delivered an end-to-end call center solution utilizing open-source tools such as asterisk.
- Continuously assessed and monitored existing cloud infrastructures, identifying improvement areas to enhanceoperational efficiency.
At Huawei, I worked as a Cloud Engineer supporting mission-critical IT Projects and cloud infrastructure services for Ethiopia’s primary telecom operator.
- Provided technical cloud support for a national telecom organization, ensuring seamless service delivery.
- Delivered technical support for a large-scale shared hosting platform, managing a high customer volume.
- Led a large-scale data migration project, ensuring minimal downtime and operational continuity.
- Deployed and managed high-available MySQL and MSSQL database clusters.
- Conducted PAT, UAT, and CJ testing with customers to validate functionality and ensure security compliance.
At CITCoT ICT Consulting, I work as a Project based Technical Trainer, delivering hands-on, high-impact training in cloud computing and IT infrastructure.
- Delivering technical training sessions, on complex cloud and IT concepts for diverse audiences.
- Developing and structuring comprehensive training curriculum for cloud computing and IT-related trainings.
- Creating presentation slides, and reference guides to support both instructor-led and self-paced learning.
- Setting up and configuring lab environments for hands-on practice, simulating real-world IT infrastructure scenarios.
Education
2017 - 2022
Bachelor's Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Haramaya University
Completed a rigorous 5-year Electrical Engineering undergraduate program with a specialization on Computer Engineering.
Straight A’ed several core courses relevant to my career, including:
- Networking: Data Communication and Computer Networks, Computer Networking and Security,
- Programing: Data Structures and Algorithms, Object-Oriented Programming, Software Engineering
- Electronics: Digital Signal Processing, Embedded Systems, Microcomputers, VLSI Design
- Design: Computer Architecture, Operating Systems, Database Systems
Featured Projects
Sovereign Public Cloud
Designed, deployed, and maintained a sovereign public cloud platform for a leading cloud provider in Ethiopia, focusing on usability, high availability, security, and resilience to serve a large number of enterprise and individual customers nationwide.
Software Defined Storage System
Designed, deployed, and maintained production grade, multi node, multi disk, scale out software defined storage platforms using open source technologies, leveraging Ceph RBD for block storage, RGW for object storage, and CephFS with MDS for distributed file storage.
Grafana Stack based Monitoring
Implemented a centralized observability platform using Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, and Grafana Alloy. Integrated centralized dashboards, log aggregation, metrics collection, and alerting to provide unified visibility across infrastructure and services.
Get in Touch
Feel free to reach out! I’ll do my best to respond to your questions or greetings.