Ghafek Alsaho

Work experience

IT Working Student — Technical Service & Automation

Verimi GmbH · Berlin, DE · May 2025 – Sep 2026

  • Automated release-note generation from Jira and Confluence with a Node.js sync tool and GitLab CI, opening reviewable merge requests that keep publication under human approval.
  • Implemented permission-controlled Django bulk workflows for Hydra OAuth2 client-secret rotation and service API-key updates, delivered end-to-end on UAT and production.
  • Resolved two production incidents on a partner ticket integration: an expired authentication certificate, restored and validated in test and production, and a removed Jira API v2 search, replaced with a resilient v3 Enhanced JQL strategy.
  • Investigated multi-system incidents by correlating Kubernetes logs, OpenSearch/Kibana data and PostgreSQL records, and troubleshot the Fluent Bit/Elasticsearch logging stack.
  • Designed and validated a two-flow Atlassian Rovo/Jira triage automation with evidence-precedence rules and missing-data detection, and converted 31 fragmented knowledge sources into a governed Confluence package.
  • Handled 70+ certificate renewal/generation requests across UAT and production, and authored an mTLS renewal and rollback runbook covering CSR signing and Kubernetes secret replacement.
  • Rebuilt a partner API reference from Postman into a Bruno collection covering access, identification, signing and payment APIs, deployed to staging for review.

IT Software Specialist

VARTAN.GROUP · Hamburg, DE · Jun 2023 – Mar 2024

  • Integrated REST APIs connecting internal tooling with external services, streamlining service delivery.
  • Built data pipelines and cleansing routines for reporting, and automated high-volume IT workflows with Python and shell scripting.

IT Working Student

Lovehoney Group · Berlin, DE · Aug 2021 – Mar 2023

  • Automated IT workflows and service-desk processes, and developed Python and PowerShell utilities underpinning HR and IT reporting.
  • Administered Microsoft 365 and Freshservice, covering onboarding, licence governance and knowledge bases.

Early Technical Roles

Vartan Product Support · BurdaForward · Hamburg, DE · Jan 2016 – Sep 2017

  • Supported hardware rollouts and documentation at Vartan Product Support; managed programmatic campaigns and SSP/DSP bidding performance at BurdaForward.