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Experience

Roles, responsibilities, and outcomes across systems, web, and AI.

Arab Career Development Association (ACDA USA)

Systems Administrator

hybridDec 2024 – Present

Responsibilities

  • Administer and harden Linux-based infrastructure (RHEL/Ubuntu) supporting conference registration and organizational platforms.
  • Configure and maintain the Nginx web server stack: reverse proxy setup, performance tuning, log analysis, and uptime optimization.
  • Enforce security policies through firewall management (iptables/UFW), SSH hardening, access control lists, and routine audits.
  • Monitor system health and resource utilization; execute incident response procedures to restore service continuity.

Achievements

  • Maintained high-availability infrastructure for a US-registered nonprofit organization with a geographically distributed team.
  • Implemented systematic hardening practices that reduced exposure surface across all managed services.

Information Technology Institute (ITI) × NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute

Generative AI Intern

remoteJan 2026 – Feb 2026

Responsibilities

  • Completed structured NVIDIA DLI curriculum covering large language models (LLMs), prompt engineering, and GenAI application deployment.
  • Explored Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures for enhancing language model outputs with external knowledge bases.
  • Developed and evaluated production-grade prompt strategies for real-world language model use cases.

Achievements

  • Earned NVIDIA DLI certifications in "AI for All: From Basics to GenAI Practice" and "Building LLM Applications with Prompt Engineering."
  • Acquired hands-on experience with transformer architecture and GenAI deployment patterns.

GROWAT

Web Administrator

hybridMar 2024 – Present

Responsibilities

  • Administer and maintain WordPress-based production websites including theme management, plugin lifecycle, and content workflows.
  • Implement front-end customizations and content architecture to support marketing campaigns and improve user experience.
  • Enforce security best practices: login hardening with WPS Hide Login, firewall rules via Wordfence, and routine plugin/dependency audits.

Achievements

  • Maintained consistent site functionality and uptime across multiple live web properties.
  • Improved site security posture through layered defense implementation.

ALX Africa Software Engineering Program

Software Engineering Intern

remoteFeb 2023 – Aug 2024

Responsibilities

  • Completed 18 months of intensive software engineering education covering low-level systems programming in C.
  • Developed mastery of memory management, pointers, data structures, and direct OS-level programming.
  • Built Linux command-line proficiency through daily use of GNU Bash, shell scripting, process management, and filesystem operations.
  • Collaborated in pair-programming environments to implement production-quality C projects.

Achievements

  • Delivered complex C projects: a custom printf implementation, a minimal Unix shell, stack/queue data structures, and multiple sorting algorithms — each with full documentation.
  • Built a rigorous engineering foundation that directly informs production work today.