Benjamin Akhras - Research Engineer

Austria

Experience

Jan 2021 - Present

4 years 7 months

Austria

Developed Taranis AI, an advanced Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) tool, leveraging artificial intelligence to revolutionize information gathering and situational analysis.
Created cybersecurity trainings and a cyber range to provide hands-on learning experiences for SOC teams and IT management.
Designed and implemented a hybrid cloud infrastructure using OpenStack, Terraform, and Ansible, improving the scalability and performance of the infrastructure.
Led the migration from an on-site only infrastructure to the hybrid cloud environment, which improved the reliability and scalability of the infrastructure.
Some of my current work can be found on GitHub.

Jan 2016 - Dec 2021

6 years

Austria

Contributed as a site reliability engineer to the development of core infrastructure and led the planning and implementation of system and network architecture for classified military networks, including the renewal of the logging and monitoring infrastructure.
Switched from a legacy ELK stack with local monitoring to a TIG (InfluxDB3 + Grafana) with distributed Icinga monitoring for a decentralized infrastructure.
Designed network and system architecture for various classified systems, from planning to implementation.
Implemented system software in Python and Go.
Reviewed source code and planned and held trainings on CI/CD, Git, and agile development.

Jan 2014 - Dec 2016

3 years

Performed DevOps engineering for the server environment for shop.billa.at, merkurmarkt.at, and adeg.at for the REWE Group.
Installed, set up, and maintained a heterogeneous server environment on a VMware cluster and AWS.
Introduced various DevOps tools and techniques, including CI with TeamCity and GitLab CI and deployments with Docker.
Delivered trainings in DevOps techniques, decreasing time to go live.

Jan 2013 - Dec 2014

2 years

Austria

Installed, set up, and maintained the core mailing infrastructure based on Postfix, OpenLDAP, and IBM Domino server.
Developed various backend services in Python, integrating and improving groupware.

Jul 2012 - Nov 2012

5 months