Zak Abdel-Illah
@zai.dev
🕵️♂️ | Certified AWS Solutions Architect
🗣️ | Polyglot [ 🇬🇧🇫🇷🇪🇸; Learning: 🇩🇪🇲🇦 ]
🇲🇦 | Half Moroccan in London
⚾️ | Yankees & NBA Fan
📸 | Canon T3i; GoPro HERO 10
🗣️ | Polyglot [ 🇬🇧🇫🇷🇪🇸; Learning: 🇩🇪🇲🇦 ]
🇲🇦 | Half Moroccan in London
⚾️ | Yankees & NBA Fan
📸 | Canon T3i; GoPro HERO 10
Here we go again! This time it’s the #AWSSummit in London. A bit of coffee through the system is definitely needed this morning 😅
April 30, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Here we go again! This time it’s the #AWSSummit in London. A bit of coffee through the system is definitely needed this morning 😅
Even though I left the VFX industry over a year ago, this story over the weekend still hits home. MPC gave me the opportunity to lead one of the best teams I could have asked for on several feature films.
Good luck to everyone affected today.
Good luck to everyone affected today.
BREAKING: We're beginning live coverage of this major story. Technicolor, owner MPC, Mikros Animation, and The Mill, is on the verge of total collapse. Over 10,000 animation and VFX workers in the US, Canada, UK and India could become unemployed this week.
Live Updates: VFX Industry On Edge As Technicolor, Owner Of Mikros Animation, MPC, And The Mill, On Verge Of Total Collapse
Over 10,000 vfx and animation workers around the globe could become unemployed as early as this week.
www.cartoonbrew.com
February 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Even though I left the VFX industry over a year ago, this story over the weekend still hits home. MPC gave me the opportunity to lead one of the best teams I could have asked for on several feature films.
Good luck to everyone affected today.
Good luck to everyone affected today.
Time to start my overnight journey up to Manchester for #ServerlessDays I’m looking forward to meet fellow peers in the field and to learn!
February 18, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Time to start my overnight journey up to Manchester for #ServerlessDays I’m looking forward to meet fellow peers in the field and to learn!
A brutal but pretty accurate assessment of the state of R&D / Tech industry within the EU, and quite an ambitious plan to tackle it.
Now that I'm back in this side of the world, I'm excited to see all the publications for innovation, tech sovereignty & start-up strategies planned by the years' end
Now that I'm back in this side of the world, I'm excited to see all the publications for innovation, tech sovereignty & start-up strategies planned by the years' end
We want technologies and products to be created, manufactured and marketed in Europe.
And we must act now.
Our new Competitiveness Compass is the plan for Europe’s productivity and growth. ↓🧵
#madeinEurope
And we must act now.
Our new Competitiveness Compass is the plan for Europe’s productivity and growth. ↓🧵
#madeinEurope
January 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
A brutal but pretty accurate assessment of the state of R&D / Tech industry within the EU, and quite an ambitious plan to tackle it.
Now that I'm back in this side of the world, I'm excited to see all the publications for innovation, tech sovereignty & start-up strategies planned by the years' end
Now that I'm back in this side of the world, I'm excited to see all the publications for innovation, tech sovereignty & start-up strategies planned by the years' end
#OpenWRT unlocks a lot of potential from consumer grade routers.
I took some time to extend my personal network into #AWS through #IPSec and #BGP, allowing me to stream gaming workloads and take advantage of high-resource databases securely.
I took some time to extend my personal network into #AWS through #IPSec and #BGP, allowing me to stream gaming workloads and take advantage of high-resource databases securely.
Deploying AWS Site-to-Site on OpenWRT
I connected OpenWRT to AWS using IPSec, BGP, Ansible and Terraform.
zai.dev
January 6, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Last summer, I developed a #Prometheus exporter to get a grasp on #Golang development and for centralizing metrics from various cloud providers within a single dashboard. Hopefully I get round to implementing a response cache 😬
Exoscale Exporter for Prometheus
I'd built a Prometheus exporter for Exoscale, allowing me to visualize cloud spending and resource usage from a central location... Read more
zai.dev
December 30, 2024 at 12:27 PM
Last summer, I developed a #Prometheus exporter to get a grasp on #Golang development and for centralizing metrics from various cloud providers within a single dashboard. Hopefully I get round to implementing a response cache 😬
Get your tickets from December 20th!
I had the honour of leading the technical directors on Disney's #Mufasa, tackling challenges across simulations, environments, virtual production, compositing and rendering optimizations through #Houdini, #Katana, #Nuke and #Python.
⬇️ Check out the trailer ⬇️
I had the honour of leading the technical directors on Disney's #Mufasa, tackling challenges across simulations, environments, virtual production, compositing and rendering optimizations through #Houdini, #Katana, #Nuke and #Python.
⬇️ Check out the trailer ⬇️
Mufasa: The Lion King | Final Trailer
YouTube video by Disney
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2024 at 12:38 AM
Cool things can be done with #PostGIS and #ArangoDB.
TfL's spider diagrams show me where I am and where I can bus-hop to without a strict plan, but I wanted to see more than one hop and routes outside of the TfL area.
Using #OpenStreetMap, I laid the foundations for a spontaneous bus route finder.
TfL's spider diagrams show me where I am and where I can bus-hop to without a strict plan, but I wanted to see more than one hop and routes outside of the TfL area.
Using #OpenStreetMap, I laid the foundations for a spontaneous bus route finder.
Bus route-finding with PostGIS and ArangoDB
I created a bus route finding tool using PostGIS and ArangoDB
zai.dev
December 2, 2024 at 2:27 PM
Cool things can be done with #PostGIS and #ArangoDB.
TfL's spider diagrams show me where I am and where I can bus-hop to without a strict plan, but I wanted to see more than one hop and routes outside of the TfL area.
Using #OpenStreetMap, I laid the foundations for a spontaneous bus route finder.
TfL's spider diagrams show me where I am and where I can bus-hop to without a strict plan, but I wanted to see more than one hop and routes outside of the TfL area.
Using #OpenStreetMap, I laid the foundations for a spontaneous bus route finder.
One of my favourite spots to take a break is right next to the second (or fourth?) busiest airport in the world, just like this horse.
📸 Canon 600D
📍 Heathrow Airport
📸 Canon 600D
📍 Heathrow Airport
November 29, 2024 at 9:38 PM
One of my favourite spots to take a break is right next to the second (or fourth?) busiest airport in the world, just like this horse.
📸 Canon 600D
📍 Heathrow Airport
📸 Canon 600D
📍 Heathrow Airport
I'd love to stream my #cycle rides around the UK & Europe.
I recently came across the #AWS Elemental suite wondering how I could use it to do exactly that, reducing the weight on my bike and minimizing the time spent operating the stream.
Looking forward to the technical and creative challenges 💪
I recently came across the #AWS Elemental suite wondering how I could use it to do exactly that, reducing the weight on my bike and minimizing the time spent operating the stream.
Looking forward to the technical and creative challenges 💪
Streaming a bike riders’ journey with AWS MediaLive
I plan to create a live streaming setup for bike journeys using GoPro and AWS.
zai.dev
November 25, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Here's the obligatory 'Happy to be where the skies are blue 🦋' post!
I strive to uncover potential in ideas through my passions for #automation, #technology, #photography, #language learning and #cycling. I'm excited to share my adventure, connect and share!
⬇️ Take a peak at my journey so far ⬇️
I strive to uncover potential in ideas through my passions for #automation, #technology, #photography, #language learning and #cycling. I'm excited to share my adventure, connect and share!
⬇️ Take a peak at my journey so far ⬇️
Zak Abdel-Illah
AWS Certified Solutions Architect; Exploring ideas across cloud and micro-service platforms, post-production and automation frameworks
zai.dev
November 23, 2024 at 11:28 AM
Here's the obligatory 'Happy to be where the skies are blue 🦋' post!
I strive to uncover potential in ideas through my passions for #automation, #technology, #photography, #language learning and #cycling. I'm excited to share my adventure, connect and share!
⬇️ Take a peak at my journey so far ⬇️
I strive to uncover potential in ideas through my passions for #automation, #technology, #photography, #language learning and #cycling. I'm excited to share my adventure, connect and share!
⬇️ Take a peak at my journey so far ⬇️