My name is Adel Zaalouk, a free-style researcher who cares more about knowledge than titles and I currently work as Product Manager with a technical focus on all things Cloud, AI, and Kubernetes, I am also one of the Cloud Native AI working group technical leads.
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 cloud, control-planes, and AI, paving my way through the AI stack with a researchy attitude. I love tinkering around with new tech, and sharing my learnings. I share 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 alot at “The Technomist”, a new newsletter I started with the hope of briding the gap between tech and business mindsets.
I also like to organize meetups, so I started quite a few. Truth to be told, some are not active anymore but dear to my heart to shut-down (maybe there is a future to them?).
Below you can find some references and pointers to some of my work.
Meetups I organize / co-organize
- Docker Heidelberg Meetup
- Kubernetes Heidelberg
- Stuttgart Gophers
- Software-Defined Cairo
- The German SocioLingo Guild
Publicly Recorded Talks / Interviews
- Reversing the Gardener Tunnel
- Network Machinery: A United Front for Network Troubleshooting with CRDs - KubeCon Barcelona
- Thinking Cloud Native: Connecting the dots with Gardener - EclipseCon
- Gardener Overview Podcast
- Gardener Testing Framework
- The Dawn of OpenShift sandboxed containers
- Emerging Multi-Cluster Patterns
- Ask an OpenShift Admin (Ep 50): Sandboxed containers
- Hosted Control Planes: Bring extra power and more cost control
- Ask an OpenShift Admin (Ep 84) | Hosted Control Planes
- Embarking on your personal AI journey - YouTube
- OpenShift Commons KubeCon EU Paris: AMA with OpenShift PMs and Engineers - YouTube
- OpenShift Commons KubeCon EU 2024: OpenShift AI Roadmap Update - YouTube
- Unlocking new possibilities: The general availability of hosted control planes for self-managed Red Hat OpenShift - redhat.com
- What’s Next: OpenShift Roadmap Update [October-2023] - YouTube
- [Technical Product Update] What’s New: OpenShift 4.12 [Jan-2023] - YouTube
- Hosted Control Planes Bring Extra Power and More Cost Control - The New Stack
Publication list
Disclaimer
This blog is one that I describe learning experience, summaries of readings, easier way to do certain tasks, and my own life musings. Blogging for me is a hobby and not a job. That being said, I work for as a 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.
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