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Omar Sharkeyeh

Head of Infrastructure & DevOps at hessnatur

I lead infrastructure and DevOps at hessnatur. Before that I spent almost five years at Calida Group Digital, first as a senior full-stack developer and then as head of platform infrastructure, and two years on the software behind Marc O’Polo.

I started building websites in 2004 and still build a few for clients. That keeps me close to the code that ends up running on the platforms I look after.

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Omar Sharkeyeh
Now
Head of Infrastructure & DevOps, hessnatur
Before
Calida Group Digital, Marc O’Polo
Focus
Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, teams
Based in
Piding, near Salzburg

Experience

  1. May 2024 –
    today

    hessnatur current

    Head of Infrastructure & DevOps

    Hess Natur-Textilien GmbH

    Responsible for hessnatur’s infrastructure and for the team that builds and runs it.

    • Set the infrastructure roadmap and tie it to what the business needs next, with scalability, reliability and security as fixed requirements.
    • Lead and mentor the team, and make sure everyone knows where we are heading and why.
    • Review the existing platform and replace what no longer pays off with newer tools, methods and automation.
    • Security measures, regulatory compliance and disaster recovery planning.
    • Vendor management: contracts, negotiations, and checking that what we buy fits what we need at a sensible cost.
    • Give the team room to try new technology and to automate whatever it does twice.

  2. Jun 2019 –
    Apr 2024

    Calida Group Digital GmbH

    Head of Platform Infrastructure

    Jun 2022 – Apr 2024

    Senior Full Stack Developer

    Jun 2019 – May 2022

    • Led the team: set its goals, tracked progress, coached team members and kept tasks and documentation in order.
    • Kept the infrastructure available, fast, scalable and secure.
    • Ran resources and services with an eye on cost.
    • Made continuous integration, continuous delivery and infrastructure as code the normal way of working.

  3. Sep 2017 –
    Jun 2019

    Marc O’Polo

    Full Stack Developer

    • Designed and built software that runs Marc O’Polo’s business, as microservices on AWS and Azure.
    • Built and styled frontends.
    • Improved deployments and automated the manual steps around them.

  4. Feb 2016 –
    Aug 2017

    Pixxet

    Co-founder

    Hohenbrunn, near Munich

    Co-founded a web agency for websites and online shops. Most of the earlier projects are from this time.

  5. Jan 2013 –
    Jan 2016

    KRZ International LLC

    Lead Developer

    In charge of the technical side of the company: its technology and resources, where they should go next, and the development work itself.

  6. Sep 2004 –
    Oct 2006

    Secret689

    Web Developer

    My first job, at a small start-up. I was the only developer and designer of taybe.net, later renamed bokra.net, which grew into one of the largest Arabic-language news sites in the region.

Selected work

Platforms and websites I build and host next to my job. The websites run on Ghost 6 with a theme of my own, Tailwind and Vite, deployed as Docker containers.

Nun Pirat

nunpirat.com · 2024–2026

Case study

An app that teaches children and families to read and write Arabic. I build the app and the platform under it: Kubernetes clusters defined in Terraform, CI/CD templates shared by every repository, and monitoring with metrics, logs, traces and profiles in one place.

How the platform is built

Kubernetes · Terraform · GitLab CI · OpenTelemetry · Laravel · React

Agentur Vera

agentur-vera.at · 2026

A new brand for a partner agency for people over 60 in Austria: logo, site and copy. Text contrast meets WCAG AAA for older readers. The personal ads arrive through a small API fed by the agency’s own matching software.

Ghost 6 · Tailwind 4 · Node.js API · Laravel

Prespecta

prespecta.eu · 2026

An independent, VDI-certified surveyor of hazardous building materials in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. 22 city pages, created and kept in sync by a script, and a coverage map generated as static SVG instead of an embedded map service.

Ghost 6 · Tailwind 4 · Vite · Admin API scripts

NA-Unternehmen

na-unternehmen.at · 2026

Demolition and asbestos removal across Austria, in German and English, with location pages for 13 Austrian cities.

Ghost 6 · Tailwind 4 · German / English

Gutwin Hausbetreuung

gutwin.omarsharkeyeh.me · 2026

Building maintenance and cleaning around Salzburg. Service pages, twelve local pages for the towns they cover, and a contact form protected by Turnstile.

Ghost 6 · Tailwind 4 · Cloudflare Turnstile

Fahrschule Hirnböck

neu.fahrschule-hirnboeck.de · 2026

A driving school in the Berchtesgadener Land since 1939, with two branches. Licence classes, the training fleet, class times for both branches and online registration.

Ghost 6 · Tailwind 4 · Vite

Earlier projects

2016–2017

Seven websites and artworks from the Pixxet years, kept as screenshots.

Skills

Platform & infrastructure

Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform / OpenTofu, Docker, Ansible, Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat), AWS, Azure, Cloudflare, ingress-nginx, cert-manager, external-dns, CoreDNS, WireGuard

Delivery

GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines, Kaniko, Renovate, DNSControl, Playwright, k6

Observability

OpenTelemetry, Grafana Alloy, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope, Grafana, Uptime Kuma, Datadog, New Relic

Data & messaging

PostgreSQL (CloudNativePG), MySQL / MariaDB, Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Typesense

Backend

PHP (Laravel incl. Octane, Symfony), Node.js, Python, Java, C

Frontend

JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Inertia.js, Vue.js, Tailwind CSS, Vite, Sass / Less, Handlebars

CMS & e-commerce

Ghost, WordPress, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Shopware, Magento, Oxid, PrestaShop, Drupal

Design

Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, XD, Premiere Pro, After Effects

Earlier: Zend, CakePHP, AngularJS, Backbone.js, jQuery, Google Web Toolkit, Bootstrap, Joomla, October CMS.

Education

  1. Oct 2011 –
    Mar 2014

    Hochschule München

    Bachelor of Computer Science / Geoinformatics

    Munich University of Applied Sciences

  2. Oct 2008 –
    Apr 2011

    University of Regensburg

    Medicine

  3. Nov 2005 –
    Aug 2006

    Language centre, Erlangen

    German, DSH

    The German language exam for university entrance

  4. Sep 2001 –
    Aug 2004

    High school, Jatt

    University entrance qualification

Languages & interests

Languages
Arabic, German, English, Hebrew
Interests
Technology, travelling, drawing, sport and DIY

Contact

The quickest way to reach me is e-mail.

[email protected]