Hi, I’m Nizar.

And I’ve always been the kind of person who likes to know why something works, not just that it works. That curiosity started way before Infrastructure and DevOps, back when I was taking apart electronics at home just to see what was hiding behind the plastic casing.

Fast forward a bit — through university, where I earned my Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport — and I found myself looking after an entire landscape of Linux servers with WebSphere clusters, IHS gateways, integration tools, and a whole collection of enterprise apps running on top. It wasn’t glamorous at first. Some days it felt like being a firefighter, a detective, and a surgeon all at once. But I grew into it. I learned the patterns. I learned how to keep the system steady even when everything around it tried not to be.

A funny thing happened along the way: I started automating out of pure frustration. I didn’t want to do the same repetitive tasks every week, so I wrote Bash tools. Then came Ansible. Then AWX. Then Terraform. Then Grafana dashboards. Then scripts that pulled JVM metrics out of WebSphere because monitoring wasn’t giving me what I needed. Before I knew it, half the environment was running smoother simply because I refused to repeat myself.

Some people collect stamps; apparently, I collect automation ideas.

But work is only half the story.

When I’m not buried in logs or tuning JVMs, I’m usually on my cruiser motorcycle, taking a slow ride to reset my brain. There’s something about riding — the simplicity, the focus, the freedom — that balances out the complexity of tech. And when I’m not riding, I’m tinkering with Raspberry Pis, Arduino boards, sensors, relays, or whatever new gadget I convinced myself I “needed for a project.”

If it has wires, LEDs, or a terminal, it has my attention.

I’ve worked across middleware, infrastructure, observability, cloud, and automation — but underneath all of that, I’m still that same curious boy who loves understanding how systems work and making them better.

And today, I’m based in Cairo, Egypt, still building, still automating, and still chasing that same curiosity that started it all at IBM

That’s me.