Ahmed Abdelwahed

Ahmed Abdelwahed

Technical Trainer | Cloud & Infrastructure Specialist

ahmed@abdelwahed.me

Technical Blog

From the Server Room
to the Cloud

200+ Delivered Courses
30+ Certificates
10+ Years in IT

About — Ahmed Abdelwahed
15+
Years of Hands-on Experience
250+
Technical Courses Delivered
6
Technology Domains
30+
Professional Certifications

About Me

I’m a Cloud and Infrastructure Specialist and Microsoft Certified Trainer based in Muscat. I started out as a system administrator in Egypt, then spent seven years in Saudi Arabia running multi-site Windows and Linux infrastructure for a holding group: Active Directory, Exchange, Hyper-V failover clusters, SonicWALL firewalls, and eventually the migrations to Azure and Microsoft 365. Since 2019 I’ve been in Oman training full time, and I’ve now delivered more than 250 courses across the Gulf on the same systems I spent those years managing. I hold three Expert-level Microsoft certifications (Azure Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, and Cybersecurity Architect), along with credentials from AWS, Google, VMware, Red Hat, and the Linux Foundation. Every course I run is backed by real labs, because I teach the errors I’ve already hit and the fixes that actually worked.

Technical Skills

Cloud & Infrastructure
Microsoft Azure AWS Google Cloud Hyper-V VMware vSphere Zero Trust Microsoft Defender
Systems & Identity
Windows Server Active Directory Entra ID / Hybrid Identity SCCM / Intune Red Hat Linux Exchange Server Microsoft 365
Automation & DevOps
Azure DevOps CI/CD Pipelines Containers PowerShell Bash Scripting Ansible
Training & Consulting
Technical Training Curriculum Design Cloud Architecture Root Cause Analysis

Key Achievements

🎓

250+ Courses Delivered

Windows Server, Linux, cloud, endpoint management, messaging, VMware, DevOps, and AI/ML, taught to enterprise and government teams across the Gulf.

🚀

“Zero to Cloud” Program

A complete career path I designed and taught myself: network fundamentals through Windows Server, Linux, Exchange, and DevOps, ending with a real migration of on-prem workloads to Azure.

☁️

Multi-Cloud Projects

Live traffic load balancing and encrypted, deduplicated backups spanning AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, with health checks, automated failover, and restores I actually tested.

🔄

VMware to Hyper-V Migration

Full migration methodology for an enterprise client: assessment, workload conversion, failover clustering, and cutover planning.

🏗

Enterprise Infrastructure Builds

Complete environments from structured cabling and firewalls up to AD, Exchange, SCCM, and SCVMM/Hyper-V. Seven years running multi-site operations in Saudi Arabia at 99%+ uptime.

🔐

Microsoft Defender Rollout

Deployed Defender for Endpoint, Office 365, Identity, and Cloud Apps across an organization, wired into Conditional Access so Zero Trust was enforced, not just a slide.

Certifications & Credentials

Training
MCT — Microsoft Certified Trainer (Active since 2013)
Cloud, AI & DevOps
Azure Solutions Architect Expert Azure DevOps Engineer Expert Azure Administrator Associate M365 Enterprise Administrator Expert AWS Solutions Architect – Associate Google Professional Cloud Architect Azure AI Engineer Associate Azure Database Administrator Associate
Infrastructure & Systems
Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate MCSA: Windows Server 2012 & 2016 MCSE: Productivity MCSE: Messaging VMware Certified Professional – DCV Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS) CCNA
Security & Compliance
Cybersecurity Architect Expert Security Operations Analyst Associate ITIL v3 Foundation