I'm a Computer Engineering student at Politecnico di Milano, currently building practical skills in cloud infrastructure with Azure.

I passed the AZ-900 certification, I'm currently working toward AZ-104, and I'm strengthening my hands-on experience with Terraform, Linux fundamentals, and infrastructure-focused projects.

My goal is to grow through real practice: building, testing, making mistakes, fixing them, and learning by doing.

• Cloud infrastructure on Azure
• Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
• Linux fundamentals for real-world cloud environments
• Git and GitHub workflows
• Building practical, recruiter-ready infrastructure projects

• Azure — solid practical familiarity with core services and management workflows
• Terraform — comfortable with the fundamentals and actively using it in projects
• Git / GitHub — strong day-to-day confidence
• Linux — basic operational knowledge, currently improving it step by step
• Bash — basic usage
• Nginx — basic usage in cloud VM scenarios
• JSON / ARM / Bicep — can read and understand them, but currently focused more on Terraform
• Python — academic background, but not yet applied in real projects

• AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
• Currently preparing for AZ-104, CCNA

A production-minded Azure infrastructure project built with Terraform to simulate a more realistic cloud environment with private compute, secure administrative access through Azure Bastion, modular Infrastructure as Code, basic monitoring, and secure secret management foundations.

What it includes

• Virtual network with dedicated application and Azure Bastion subnets
• Private ARM64 Linux virtual machine with no public IP
• Azure Bastion for secure administrative access
• Network Security Group applied to the application subnet
• Automated Nginx installation and configuration through cloud-init
• Log Analytics Workspace and CPU metric alert
• Azure Key Vault as a foundation for secure secret handling
• Modular Terraform structure with separate network, compute, bastion, monitoring, and key vault modules

What this project helped me practice

• Private infrastructure design on Azure
• Secure VM administration without direct public SSH exposure
• Terraform modularization and cleaner IaC structure
• ARM64 Linux VM deployment on Azure
• cloud-init automation and service bootstrap
• Basic Azure monitoring and alerting
• Security-aware infrastructure design
• Real deployment troubleshooting and validation

A hands-on Azure infrastructure project built with Terraform to simulate a more realistic cloud environment with separated management and workload layers, subnet-based security, ARM64 Linux virtual machines, and automated provisioning through cloud-init.

What it includes

• Virtual network with separate management and web subnets
• Subnet-based Network Security Groups
• Dedicated management VM for administrative access
• Public-facing web VM running Nginx
• SSH key-based access control
• Automated VM provisioning with cloud-init
• ARM64 Ubuntu virtual machines on Azure

What this project helped me practice

• Azure virtual network and subnet design
• Network Security Groups and controlled access paths
• Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
• Linux VM provisioning and SSH authentication
• cloud-init automation
• More realistic infrastructure design beyond a single-VM deployment

A practical Azure infrastructure project built with Terraform to simulate a small but realistic cloud deployment.

What it includes

• Virtual network and subnet
• Network Security Group rules
• Linux virtual machine with SSH access
• Automated Nginx installation through cloud-init

What this project helped me practice

• Azure resource structure
• Infrastructure as Code fundamentals
• Basic networking and access control
• Practical deployment workflow from code to running VM

I’m trying to move beyond university theory and build real technical experience as early as possible.

I learn best by doing: creating projects, breaking things, understanding mistakes, correcting them, and improving from there.
To me, that is one of the most valuable ways to learn cloud and infrastructure work.

• Azure administration knowledge
• Terraform best practices
• Linux operational confidence
• Infrastructure design mindset
• More real-world cloud projects

• Italian — native
• English — C1
• French — conversational
• German — currently learning
• Russian — currently learning

• LinkedIn: [www.linkedin.com/in/karim-el-atfy]