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salahawad/README.md

Salah Awad

CTO | Distributed Systems Architect | AI Infrastructure

Designing scalable, production-grade systems across Kubernetes, Laravel, FastAPI, and AI-driven automation.

  • CTO-as-a-Service for startups, SMEs & enterprise programs
  • Focus: scalability, reliability, performance & cloud-native architectures
  • Specializing in high-throughput backend platforms & media pipelines

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About

I am a CTO and distributed systems architect specializing in building scalable, high-performance platforms across AI workflows, backend systems, and cloud-native infrastructure.

My work focuses on:

  • Cloud-native architectures (Kubernetes, Helm, HA environments)
  • Backend engineering (Laravel, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB)
  • AI/media processing pipelines (FFmpeg orchestration, TTS, translation workflows)
  • Enterprise authentication systems (Keycloak, SAML2, OAuth2/OIDC)
  • Observability & performance optimization (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki)

I work with startups, SMEs, and institutions where reliability, scalability, and execution speed are critical.


Tech Stack

Languages

Java C# Python JavaScript PHP C++

Frontend

React Angular Vue Electron

Backend & Frameworks

Laravel FastAPI Spring Express.js Node.js ASP.NET

Architecture & Cloud

Kubernetes Helm Docker AWS Azure GCP Proxmox k3s HA Systems

Databases

PostgreSQL Oracle MSSQL MariaDB MySQL MongoDB Neo4j Redis

Data & Streaming

Hadoop Kafka Apache Spark Airflow Superset Apache Camel RabbitMQ MinIO

AI, NLP & Media Processing

FFmpeg MarianNMT TTS Pipelines Spacy TIKA Tesseract OpenNLP Computer Vision

Search Engines

Solr ELK OpenSearch

CI/CD & DevOps

Jenkins Ansible GitLab CI Azure DevOps GitHub Actions ArgoCD

Observability

Prometheus Grafana Loki Sentry

Security & Identity

Keycloak SAML2 OAuth2 OIDC

Web Servers

Nginx Tomcat IIS

Blockchain

Corda Ethereum

CRM & ERP

Salesforce PeopleSoft Pegasus Odoo

Tools & Management

Jira ClickUp Asana Trello MS Project Figma Adobe XD


Certifications & Training

  • Microsoft Professional Developer (MCPD)
  • Product & Technical Training @ Oracle JavaOne Conference, USA
  • Agile Software Development @ XP Days Benelux, Netherlands
  • Product Management @ Tarigo, UK
  • Project Management @ Drivetask, France
  • Professional Tester Training @ Construx, France
  • SCRUM Training @ Paris, France
  • Agile Scrum Development @ New Horizon, Lebanon

Selected Work

Distributed Media Processing Systems

Designed scalable pipelines for automated media workflows, including concurrent processing, multilingual orchestration, and high-volume workloads.

FastAPI FFmpeg Python Kubernetes

Cloud-Native Backend Architectures

Built stateless backend platforms designed for HA deployments, horizontal scaling, and performance optimization.

Laravel PostgreSQL Redis Kubernetes

Enterprise Authentication Infrastructure

Implemented multi-tenant SSO ecosystems supporting SAML2 and OIDC across distributed applications.

Keycloak Kubernetes Laravel

High-Scale Multilingual Processing Pipelines

Designed resilient translation and TTS workflows with fallback logic and distributed queue orchestration.

Python Queue Systems MarianNMT


Impact

  • Architected distributed systems supporting large-scale users and workloads
  • Led multi-team engineering initiatives across cloud-native environments
  • Delivered high-availability infrastructures across multiple regions
  • Optimized performance for latency-sensitive backend platforms

CTO-as-a-Service

I support organizations with:

  • Architecture design & system audits
  • Cloud migration & optimization strategies
  • Performance tuning & scaling
  • Engineering leadership & team structuring
  • AI integration roadmaps

Engineering Philosophy

  • Systems must scale before they grow
  • Observability is non-negotiable
  • Automation over manual workflows
  • Performance is a feature
  • Architecture must serve business outcomes

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