Karim Hamdy

Accomplished professional with extensive expertise in infrastructure design and technical troubleshooting. Recognized as a subject matter expert in performance tracking, disaster recovery planning, and risk assessment. Committed to leveraging technical skills to enhance organizational resilience and efficiency.

• Vmware certified Professional -DCV 2021
• Powermax / VMAX Implementation Engineer
• RedHat certified system administrator
• Nutanix Certified Professional
• Unity Implementation Engineer
• Isilon Implementation Engineer
• DataDobi administrator
• Powerscale Platform engineer
• Hyper Converged / Converged solutions Associate
• VNX Implementation engineer
• VNX Platform engineer
• VNX Storage administrator
• Powerstore implementation Specialist
• AWS certified associate
• VxRail Implementation engineer
• PowerFlex Design

Data Protection project, Ahli united bank, Bahrain 2025

· Architecture of a new data protection storage based on Dell Data domain

· Workload analysis of customer’s environment to size a solution that matches security, compliance and regulation measures from the Central bank of Bahrain

· Isolated environment design for Air gap protection of a selected workload

Data Protection project, Benefit company, 2025

· Architecture of a new data protection strategy based on Veritas/Cohesity Flex appliance using the 3+2+1+1+0 compliant Design.

· Workload analysis of customer’s environment to size a solution that matches security, compliance and regulation measures from the Central bank of Bahrain

· Isolated environment design for Air gap protection of a selected workload

Technology refreshment, Bank of Bahrain and kuwait, Bahrain, 2022

· Architecture of a new infrastructure to host customer’s core banking application based on Oracle Sparc servers T8-2 and Dell Powermax.

· Designing a runbook for DR failovers regarding core banking applications and related Databases

· Engaging Ansible in daily tasks automation for admins , ex: Volumes creations , SRDF replication pairs creations , etc…

Technology refreshment, Bahrain Islamic bank, Bahrain, 2021

· Architecture of a highly available solution to host EFTS system based on Citrix VDI and Dell VxRail.

· Architecture of a new infrastructure to host customer’s core banking application based on Oracle Sparc servers T8-2 and Dell Powerstore.

· Designing a runbook for service delivery engineers for workload migrations.

Tech refresh, Bahrain Teleco (Batelco), Bahrain, 2020

· Powermax deployment in main and DR sites

· Metro Protection for active-active data center using dark fiber between sites

· VxRail stretched cluster deployment

· Migrating the existing workload from the traditional vSphere environment to the VxRail

· Converting the Hyper-v machines to vSphere, P2V conversion for the existing legacy servers

Workload migration Vodafone Italy/Albania/Germany, Dell Technologies, 2019

· Migrating workloads from Hitachi to Powermax in most of Vodafone locations worldwide

· SRDF setup between the newly deployed Powermax, Host based migration tools used 'VxVM,LVM,EMcopy,rsync'

Technology refreshment, Gulf stevedoring company, Saudi Arabia, 2018

· Implementation of new Hyperconverged infrastructure in 'Dell VxRail' in 3 Ports in Saudi

· Migrating the existing workload from the traditional vSphere environment to the VxRail, Converting the Hyper-v machines to vSphere

· P2V conversion for the existing legacy servers, Replication using RP4VMs between the sites

Technology refreshment, Ministry of military production, Egypt, 2017

· Replacement of old SAN, NAS, Backup and archiving environment in ministry of defense

· Implementation of VNX, Data domain and Centera and CTA, VDP integration with Data domain

· Workload migration from old SAN storage to the VNX, CTA configuration for file retention and archiving purposes Saudi ports technology revamp

Data Center Relocation, Ministry of interior, Egypt, 2015

· Failover to most of the services from main site to DR site

· Moved all Dell related hardware from the old data center of MOI to the new location

· Cabling, rack, stack, reconfigurations needed for management component

· Failing back to the new main site after all service are up and running.