Zainab Bikar

Cloud Engineer | Tech Lead

Building scalable cloud solutions, mentoring engineers, and improving delivery systems.

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About

I’m a Cloud Engineer working in fintech, with 3 years of experience building on Google Cloud Platform. Outside of day-to-day work, I’m focused on self-development — broadening my hands-on skills and working towards my GCP Professional Cloud Architect and AWS certifications, with a growing interest in AI.

I enjoy building systems that improve reliability, team performance, and developer experience.

What I do

Cloud & DevOps
  • GCP workflows
  • CI/CD
  • Release management
  • Infrastructure and automation
Leadership
  • Team mentoring
  • Backlog planning
  • Code reviews
  • Delivery coordination

Experience Highlights

Tech Lead
  • Leading a pod of 5-8 engineers
  • Running technical mentoring and training sessions
  • Supporting monthly production releases
  • Improving team delivery and collaboration
Junior DevOps Engineer
  • Built and supported GCP workflows
  • Automated validation and deployment processes
  • Delivered onboarding training for 40+ team members

Selected Achievements

  • 3rd Place — National Engineering Satellite Competition
  • Outstanding Commitment Award — Student Publication Association
  • Rebuilt a university magazine community to 1,500+ followers
  • Delivered onboarding training for 35+ engineers

Technologies

Cloud
  • GCP
  • GitHub
  • CI/CD
  • Terraform
Languages
  • SQL
  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
Working
  • Agile
  • Release Management
  • Mentoring
  • Technical Reviews