About

Most cloud advice is written by people who don't run what they recommend. I do — in a home lab, on real Azure, on real pipelines.

I'm a DevOps and Azure cloud-native engineer and a Microsoft Certified Trainer. My work sits where infrastructure, automation, and development meet: I design and run cloud-native systems, then break down what actually worked so other engineers can use it. I have more than a decade of experience across the telecom and software sectors, and currently work as a Cloud Architect at Tkxel.

The proof is in the work: a running home lab (k3s, IaC, observability), the AZ-204 / AZ-400 / AZ-305 Microsoft certifications, the "Think you know DevOps?" newsletter, open-source work at github.com/mabubakarriaz, and the TeamTreats project as a live case study.

I write for practitioners and peer engineers. If you work in Azure, home-lab, DevOps, platform engineering, or as a Forward Deployed Engineer — follow along, and reach out if something here is useful to you.