# Lahoucine B. > Cloud Engineer | AWS | Python | Software engineer | Distributed Systems | DevOps | CI/CD Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/lahoucine Passionate Software Developer with 13+ years of experience in Software Development and Cloud Computing. Successfully delivered 20+ large projects and acquired experience in Linux, AWS, Python and able to solve a large number of computing problems. During my previous experiences, I've been designing highly available, fault-tolerant, scalable and cost-efficient systems. I implement and deploy these solutions and educate companies about the best practices regarding automation, security, and troubleshooting of their infrastructure. Technical Skillset Summary: • Cloud providers: AWS a • Infrastructure provisioning: Terraform, Cloudformation, • Configuration management: Ansible, AWS SSM. • Serverless: AWS Lambda • Containers: Docker • Programming: Python (advanced), JavaScript, C ( basics), Java(Basics) • Scripting: Shell. • Web and Load Balancers: Apache, Nginx, HAProxy, Varnish. • Monitoring and logging: Splunk, ELK, and Cloudwatch. • Databases and cache: Mysql, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Memcached, Redis. • CICD and testing tools: Jenkins, CodeBuild, CodePipeline, Selenium. • Networking Tools/Services: TCP/IP, VPN, CDN, FTP, DNS, DHCP, SSH. • Security: Firewall, Iptables, WAF, IDS/IPS, Vulnerability Scanners and OS hardening. • Versioning: GIT, Bitbucket, CodeCommit. • Frontend: React. ## Work Experience ### Staff Systems Engineer @ OkCupid Jan 2020 – Jan 2025 | New York, New York, United States Led the end-to-end design, deployment, and operational support of multi-account AWS infrastructure across multiple brands under Match Group, driving the transition from legacy systems to a scalable, secure, and cost-optimized cloud environment. Served as the subject matter expert in AWS, Terraform, and infrastructure automation: -Design, deployment, and automation of a secure, multi-account AWS Landing Zone using Terraform and Terragrunt, supporting production-grade infrastructure for multiple brands (OkCupid, Archer). - Integrated and maintained AWS SSO with Okta across multiple AWS environments to streamline identity federation and access control—recognized in an official AWS case study: OkCupid Simplifies Multi-account Management Using AWS Partner Okta. - Participated in the maintenance and operations of EKS clusters, handling routine updates, monitoring, troubleshooting, and ensuring stability across environments. - Used Packer to build and maintain consistent, version-controlled Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) across environments, improving deployment speed and reducing configuration drift. - Migrated legacy workloads to AWS with minimal downtime, establishing secure inter-brand connectivity using AWS Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, hybrid DNS, and Cloudflare VPN. - Delivered 60%+ projected AWS cost savings through instance right-sizing, reserved instances, Terraform-based cost tagging, and adoption of Infracost for real-time budgeting. - Administered and maintained Linux infrastructure (EC2), including system provisioning, patching, user access management, and log aggregation. - Contributed to cross-team automation and standardization by integrating Atlantis for Terraform PR workflows and building GitHub-integrated workflows. - Mentored teammates on infrastructure-as-code practices; conducted Terraform PR reviews and helped onboard engineers to the AWS environment through internal documentation and training sessions. ### Cloud Systems Developer Lead @ Cloudreach Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | New York, United States - Solving problems with automation, and creating bespoke tooling when no solution yet exists - Providing Knowledge and best practice for code and infrastructure life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operations - Outside of projects, managing a team of six Cloud Systems Developers and being responsible for their well being and support them in both technical and soft-skill up-skilling. - Defined the interview process and conducted several technical interviews. ### Cloud Systems Engineer @ Cloudreach Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Région de Paris, France Implementation and automation of cloud infrastructures and solutions, mainly on AWS : - Worked on projects for Cloudreach largest customers such as Time Inc, River Island and Gemalto - Participated in every stage of large datacenter migrations: environment preparation, data, and application migration strategy, architecture design and cost on the target cloud provider and build of proof of concept - Implemented and automated advanced AWS layered topologies using Infrastructure As Code methodology - Designed and implemented advanced Cl/CD pipelines for cloud environments using Jenkins and AWS Code Pipeline - Educated customers about the best practices regarding governance, networking, security and disaster recovery strategies. ### Software Engineer @ Wallix Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | Paris , France Wallix Report Manager (WRM) developer (Logs concentrator based on Python): - Optimization of the search and indexing engine led to a gain of 40% in storage space Logs migration solution optimization - Debian packaging of some core products components Wallix AdminBastion (WAB) developer (Privileged Users Management solution based on python and): - Wallix Admin Bastion RESTFul API design and development (Python, Falcon, WSGI) ### Internship, monitoring Cloud using Cloud @ Wallix Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Paris , France Resilience is an open source Cloud project with the aim to create an IAAS (Infrastructure As A Service). In this project the mission was to design and develop a Cloud plateform for data monitoring and log processing of other clouds machines. ## Education ### Master's degree in Distributed Systems and Middleware Pierre et Marie Curie University, jointly acrredited with TELECOM PARISTECH Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/houce --- Source: https://flows.cv/lahoucine JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/lahoucine/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22