Marwan Ayman Shawky

Cloud & DevOps Engineer

Uses

Tools and gear I rely on daily. Inspired by uses.tech.

Hardware

  • Laptop
    Lenovo Yoga Slim 6 — my primary machine for everything
  • On-Prem Cluster
    Multi-node Kubernetes cluster running on Proxmox VE at work

OS & Shell

  • Linux
    Rocky Linux on servers, Ubuntu/Debian for local VMs
  • Windows + WSL2
    Daily driver with WSL2 for a native Linux shell experience
  • Bash / Zsh
    Bash for scripts, Zsh with Starship for a fast interactive shell

Editor & Terminal

  • VS Code
    Primary editor — extensions for Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, and YAML
  • Vim
    For quick server-side edits over SSH
  • Termora
    Cross-platform terminal with built-in SSH management and a clean UI
  • Starship
    Minimal, fast, and customizable shell prompt written in Rust

Infrastructure & DevOps

  • Kubernetes
    Container orchestration — both managed and bare-metal
  • Terraform
    Infrastructure as code across cloud and on-prem
  • Ansible
    Configuration management and server provisioning
  • Helm
    Kubernetes package management and release templating
  • ArgoCD / Flux CD
    GitOps controllers for automated cluster reconciliation
  • Docker
    Containerization and local development environments
  • Proxmox VE
    Hypervisor for on-premises VM and container workloads

CI/CD

  • GitHub Actions
    Primary pipeline for open-source and personal projects
  • Jenkins
    Self-hosted pipelines for enterprise workloads
  • Gitea
    Internal Git hosting with integrated CI at work

Cloud

  • AWS
    EC2, EKS, S3, VPC, ALB, IAM — primary cloud platform alongside GCP
  • GCP
    GKE, Cloud Run, GCS, VPC, IAM — heavily used alongside AWS
  • Azure
    AKS, Azure DevOps, Storage — familiar with the full ecosystem

Monitoring & Storage

  • Prometheus + Grafana
    Metrics collection and dashboarding for cluster observability
  • MinIO
    S3-compatible object storage for on-prem artifact management

This Site

  • Deno + Lume
    Static site generator — fast builds, zero JS framework overhead
  • Vercel
    Production hosting with edge CDN, automatic deployments from GitHub
  • Deno Deploy
    Dev/preview deployments for this site — runs on Deno's global edge network
  • Cloudflare Pages
    Dev/preview deployments for this site — fast builds with Cloudflare's CDN