$ whoami

Ahmed Alae
Boughdad

DevOps Engineer · Linux SysAdmin · Blue Team

Self-taught systems engineer. Deep Linux expertise spanning kernel-level configuration, from-scratch and Gentoo builds, and hardened production environments. Fluent across the full DevOps stack — infrastructure, orchestration, networking, and security.

alae@alaecorp ~ %
$ uname -r
linux-hardened
$ cat skills.txt
Arch Gentoo LFS Docker Rust WireGuard Ansible Terraform
$ ping alaecorp.org
PING alaecorp.org: online
$ _

Linux

Arch LinuxGentoo LFSDebian/Ubuntu AlpineNixOS Kernel hardeningsystemd PAMiptables/nftables SELinux/AppArmor

DevOps & Infra

DockerPodman (rootless) AnsibleTerraform GitHub ActionsNginx CaddyPrometheus Grafana

Development

RustC PythonJava BashSQL/SQLite Tokio/Axumrussh

Security

Blue TeamLog analysis Hardening auditsThreat detection Incident responseSIEM basics