SALAH ABUKAR

Founder & Developer

DevOps Engineer

LabWare • Malmö, Sweden • Oct 2024 – Jun 2025

LabWare is a global provider of Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) and Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELN) for regulated industries including pharma, healthcare, and research. Customers include global names like Pfizer and AstraZeneca. Their systems help labs manage sample data, workflows, and compliance with standards like GxP and ISO.

When I joined, the team had no visibility into their own systems. No one knew what was happening in the database in real time, validations were done manually, and documentation was lacking.

I built a monitoring system from scratch using Prometheus, Loki, and Grafana, connected to the database, giving the team real-time insight into system health, logs, and performance for the first time. In parallel, I developed a validation tool that automatically checked files, hash values, and configurations across environments, generating reports without human involvement.

Beyond that, I administered Linux systems, configured services and log pipelines, and troubleshot issues across both Linux and Windows.

Everything was documented continuously. By the time I was done, the team could deploy and maintain the systems independently, without asking me.

Seven years in construction taught me to work with real consequences. On a building site, there is no undo button. If reinforcement is cast wrong or a structure doesn't hold, you feel it.

Every workday started with a short meeting where the whole team went through the day's plan, responsibilities, and potential risks. Simple, but it kept everyone aligned and minimized misunderstandings.

I formed and cast concrete, handled reinforcement, and served as foreman responsible for a small crew in day-to-day work. It required precision, clear communication, and the ability to make decisions quickly when conditions changed.

The work also meant reading technical drawings and translating them into practice, often using my own initiative when site conditions differed from what the drawing showed.

What I bring into tech is not specific techniques but a way of thinking: build it right from the start, document so the next person understands, and take responsibility when it counts.

DevOps Engineer (Vocational HE)

JENSEN Yrkeshögskola • Malmö, Sweden • 2023 – 2025

Two-year vocational higher education with focus on cloud infrastructure, container orchestration, CI/CD, monitoring, IaC, Linux, and agile methodologies.

The thesis compares Linux and Windows for DevOps environments, covering CI/CD tooling, containers, performance, and security models. The conclusion is that Linux is technically superior, but hybrid solutions are the realistic strategy for most organizations. It draws partly on observations from the LabWare internship.

Construction & Civil Engineering

Peabskolan • Ängelholm, Sweden • 2013 – 2016

3-year technical upper secondary program.

Foreman Training

Byggnads • Sweden

5-day course for construction foremen. Team leadership, labor law, wage systems and collective agreements, planning and time management on site.