Cybersecurity engineering / DevSecOps leadership / Zaandam, Netherlands
I lead the QRadar EDR DevOps team at IBM Security, combining hands-on platform delivery with production support during customer outages.
01 / Career
I work on the QRadar EDR platform, which serves customers including government entities. I coordinate delivery, support engineers and stay hands-on across OpenShift and CI/CD. During customer-critical production incidents, I help diagnose the problem while keeping priorities and communication aligned.
Owned delivery of the AWS environment for a platform migration to microservices and delivered a metasearch product with a Selenium Grid scraping engine.
Built a shared component library and a JavaScript page editor for content teams.
Several freelance projects ran alongside employed roles.
I run an independent web-development business, handling client conversations, implementation and delivery.
Built features for an AngularJS education platform and integrated third-party APIs.
Set up WSO2 API Manager on a remote server and worked on SEO, paid search and social media marketing.
Led MEAN-stack development and AWS setup for the Careways medical tourism platform.
Developed an online shop, integrated payment APIs and implemented login microservices on AWS. Hosted the application on ECS.
Taught Java EE, REST API development, object-oriented design and testing through programming exercises.
Built the AngularJS frontend for an event management platform that also used ASP.NET and Java EE.
Worked on the Symfony web application and Java components of a medical platform.
Developed the storefront and PHP backend for an e-commerce website, with browser interactions written in JavaScript and jQuery.
Logo and flyer design.
Built software and databases for clients, automated business processes and worked on AWS infrastructure. Trained and supported other engineers.
Education
Computer Science Engineering degree
ESPRIT School of Engineering, Tunisia
September 2013–September 2018 · Five-year programme
Baccalaureate in Mathematics
2013 · Tunisia
Professional development
NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Harvard Business School Online
IBM
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Cato Networks
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Cognitive Class
Credential ID: 87da226895184b40b9440390909af7c4
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Recommendations
What impressed me most was his transition into leadership. During a critical period, after a key DevOps engineer left unexpectedly, Mohamed stepped in and was promoted to Team Lead.
I had the opportunity to manage Mohamed at IBM while working as an Engineering Manager for the QRadar EDR product.
Mohamed consistently showed strong technical range across backend, frontend, AWS, OpenShift, CI and CD, and production delivery. He learned unfamiliar systems quickly, stayed calm during difficult situations, and took ownership of problems until they were resolved.
What impressed me most was his transition into leadership. During a critical period, after a key DevOps engineer left unexpectedly, Mohamed stepped in and was promoted to Team Lead. The odds were against him, because the team had lost important deployment knowledge and still had customer commitments to meet.
Despite this, he successfully led the team while remaining technically hands on. He coordinated the work, supported the engineers, learned the missing OpenShift knowledge, and helped the team deliver what stakeholders expected.
Mohamed proved that he could succeed both as a technical engineer and as a leader. I recommend him without hesitation.
He combines strong hands‑on skills with clear leadership: he dives into code and diagnostics himself, makes sound decisions under time pressure, and keeps the team aligned on priorities while handling sensitive customer situations with professionalism and empathy.
I worked with Mohamed in my role as Head of Product Support for IBM Security, where he has excelled as both a developer and support engineer showing great leadership skills. In high‑pressure, customer‑critical situations, Mohamed consistently steps up as a calm technical lead.
He combines strong hands‑on skills with clear leadership: he dives into code and diagnostics himself, makes sound decisions under time pressure, and keeps the team aligned on priorities while handling sensitive customer situations with professionalism and empathy. I strongly recommend Mohamed for senior / lead engineering roles.
Mohamed has a positive influence on the team and can motive others to join his vision. He brings a spark to the team with his positive attitude and shows strong management skills.
Mohamed is an exceptional developer who possesses all the skills one would want in an excellent software engineer. He consistently gave 100 percent effort to the team and played a significant role in ensuring that we completed assignments on time. His work is always top-notch, and he is always welcoming to feedback and making improvements. Plus, Mohamed is self-motivated and a great team player.
I’ve seen Mohamed go above and beyond in Web development and collaboration opportunities with different Projects during the 4 years we worked together. Because of his ‘student for life’ mindset, he’s also eager to learn new techniques, and that’s how our team always on the lead by smashing high records and get clients happiness.
Excellent student and have good talent in communication and in technical area.
Med. Hedi is a student with great anger to succeed in there his student life that professional. he will be a skilled versatile engineer considering his ability so fast to conceive develop and analyze. I highly recommend him.
My first contact with Nasr Mohamed hedi was two years ago when he often asked me some technical questions without me being his teacher. I immediately realized that he is passionate about the web, and that's why he opted for the TWIN option (Web Technologies and Internet) to Esprit. It was then this year that I had him as a student in my class in the module Web integration, and I confess that he has exceptional qualities in his passion for the web and in autonomy. He analyzes his problems perfectly and is fully involved in them.it.
Nasr Mohamed hedi is a hard-working, serious, passionate, highly intelligent student with good communication and group work skills. It was a pleasure to have it in class ... I highly recommend it as it will undoubtedly make an excellent engineer and will have its added value in the professional setting.
I am a teacher at ESPRIT and I had the pleasure to teach and supervise Mohamed Hedi Nasr during his studies of computer engineer, I taught him the bases of the web during the "Integrated Web Project And Java "during the academic years 2015-2016 as well as the project Integrated Project MEAN Stack. Conscientious, assiduous, creative and persevering, Mohamed Hedi is an exemplary student who has brought full satisfaction throughout his studies at ESPRIT. I consider it a very good element with the academic skills and the human qualities needed. I remain at your disposal for any additional information you would like to see. Please accept my best regards.
02 / Selected writing
Notes on technical migrations, frontend state, web performance and AI coding tools.
Windsurf became Devin Desktop. SpaceX acquired Cursor. A look at the confirmed changes, Codex with Astra, Claude Code, and how I would choose tools for a team.
Read reportSearch state, stale responses, and failed writes: what a frontend has to get right beyond the screen.
Read essayHow to scope a migration, test its failure paths, and hand over a system the rest of the team can run.
Read guide03 / Selected products
Three live systems, followed by smaller work in progress.
I built and operate a Tunisian technology price-comparison product. Its Next.js frontend reads from a FastAPI service; Scrapy collectors and MongoDB keep catalogue products, current offers and price history separate, with per-store deduplication before offers reach the comparison view.
I built a service for comparing bank and exchange-office rates, currency conversion and money-transfer options to Tunisia. The Next.js application normalises rates and fees collected by dedicated Puppeteer jobs and stores the results in MongoDB.
I built a Next.js and Express comparison product for cards and banking products from Tunisian institutions. MongoDB stores the catalogue; Axios and Cheerio collectors support scheduled data collection, change-aware updates and duplicate checks.
Additional work
My independent web-development business, covering client conversations, implementation and delivery.
Prepares application material from a job listing, keeps a tracker and requires approval before anything is sent.
A job-discovery application with candidate, recruiter and admin accounts, profile parsing, subscriptions and role-based permissions.
04 / Technical background
05 / Beyond work
ManuscriptThe manuscript is about building software, leading technical teams, and staying accountable as AI changes how code is written.
Read my articlesAway from the keyboard, I’m a father, gamer and wrestler, and I spend a lot of time in the gym.
06 / Contact
Send me a message about a project or something I’ve written.