About
My name is Adel Zaalouk, a free-style researcher who cares more about knowledge than titles. I currently work as a Senior Principal Product Manager at Red Hat with a technical focus on agentic AI and AI safety. Previously, I served as one of the technical leads of the CNCF Cloud Native AI working group.
Throughout my career I wore different hats, in different countries working with different people from a broad spectrum of nationalities. Initially, I started in research with a strong focus on Software-Defined Networking (back in the buzz days), and moved slowly to the industry side, covering / advocating for software-defined concepts across the entire stack.
Nowadays, I work mostly with AI agents, models, and operationalizing them at scale, paving my way through the AI stack with a researchy attitude. I love tinkering around with new tech, and sharing my learnings either in the form of blog-posts, publications, talks, or in meet-ups where I get to meet and learn from awesome minded people in the community. These days, I muse a lot at "The Technomist", a newsletter I started with the hope of bridging the gap between tech and business mindsets.
Education
Selected Writing
Talks and Interviews
Previously Organized Meetups
I also like to organize meetups, so I started quite a few. They are not active anymore but dear to my heart to shut-down (maybe there is a future to them?).
- Docker Heidelberg Meetup
- Kubernetes Heidelberg
- Stuttgart Gophers
- Software-Defined Cairo
- The German SocioLingo Guild
This Blog
- Entries - Long-form blog posts
- Series - Multi-part posts that explore a topic in depth
- Illustrations - Interactive visual explorations
- Links - Interesting links with commentary
- Quotes - Quotations that inspire
- Notes - Short-form thoughts
Disclaimer
This blog is one where I describe learning experiences, summaries of readings, easier ways to do certain tasks, and my own life musings. Blogging for me is a hobby and not a job. That being said, I work as a Senior Principal Product Manager at Red Hat. The content published here is not read, reviewed, or approved in advance by my employer and does not necessarily reflect the views of my employer nor does it relate to internal information for any of its divisions.