David Yousef

DevOps QA Product Owner and Automation Engineer with 10+ years of experience delivering scalable cloud infrastructure, test automation, CI/CD pipelines, and developer enablement across enterprise and embedded systems. Specialized in AWS infrastructure using CDK, Terraform, and container platforms including ECS, EKS, and App Runner.

Core strengths include blending infrastructure-as-code with test-first principles to build resilient, secure, and high-performing systems. Strong advocate for automation, BDD, and SDLC excellence. Experienced in designing self-service platforms, enforcing governance at scale, and developing internal tools that empower teams.

Hands-on expertise in IaC, container orchestration, Python, Jira administration, and reusable tooling. A background in robotics and autonomous systems adds a precision engineering mindset to complex delivery challenges. Known for simplifying complexity, scaling proven solutions, and accelerating team velocity without compromising safety or quality.

• Drove $2M+ in annual AWS savings by designing a just-in-time provisioning system using OpenVPN, cutting active resource usage by ~65%.
• Engineered and launched a modular AWS CDK infrastructure platform enabling orchestrator-based deployment of sandbox/staging/prod environments with secure defaults and 90%+ test coverage.
• Built a cloud governance pipeline that cleans orphaned AWS resources, saving $840K/year automatically.
• Delivered a containerized Subsea Application PoC using dynamically generated Docker Compose that mirrors standalone behavior with static networking and standalone-equivalent behavior on EC2.
• Architected and Built 10+ CI/CD pipelines including FCU Function Block, URDS regression suite, InsiteEdge, and automated infrastructure test pipelines.

• Arabic, Native
• English, Fluent (Written & Spoken)