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Abdulmuhsen Alayouni
عبدالمحسن العيوني
Enterprise Architect · Observability & Security Systems
I design observability and security systems for national-scale environments, and I build the tools that make them work. 8 years across government, finance, healthcare, and telecom.
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On the record.
Invited onto #بودكاست_جاب (the official podcast of TVTC, the government authority behind my college) on turning technical depth into institutional performance.
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The path.
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Enterprise Architect
Jul 2025 → PresentRiverbed Technology · Riyadh
- Architect observability solutions for national-scale customers across KSA.
- Lead custom ingestion, alerting, and topology design where the platform stops short.
- Set technical direction for PS delivery patterns regionally.
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Senior Performance Consultant
Jan 2025 → Jul 2025Riverbed Technology · Riyadh
- Full-stack Riverbed rollouts: Saudi Post, MCIT, RCU, Tanmiah, MIM, RGA.
- Built API metric ingestion pipelines to bring non-native data into Riverbed.
- Established regional best practices: onboarding, polling, auto-grouping.
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Performance Consultant
Feb 2023 → Jan 2025Riverbed Technology · Riyadh
- Delivered NetIM, NetProfiler, AppResponse, Portal, APM, Packet Analyzer.
- Designed dashboards, service maps, and alert workflows for hybrid infra.
- Led stakeholder workshops and post-deployment optimization.
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Senior Security Operations Officer
Nov 2021 → Feb 2023NUPCO · Riyadh
- Hybrid SecOps across Palo Alto, Cortex XDR, Tenable, LinkShadow, ManageEngine.
- Threat detection, segmentation, endpoint protection, vulnerability management.
- Compliance reporting and remediation alongside SOC and stakeholders.
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Cybersecurity Engineer / Analyst
Aug 2019 → Nov 2021SITE · Saudi Information Technology (PIF) · Riyadh
- Lifecycle security reviews for: Royal Court, Ministry of Defense, Saudi Customs, MOH, MOJ, NCA, MIFON, GASTAT.
- Architecture reviews, audits, risk-ranked remediation aligned to NCA / NIST.
- Manual and automated assessments using Nessus, Nipper, Skybox, AlgoSec.
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Systems Engineer
Aug 2018 → Aug 2019BARQ Systems · Riyadh
- Palo Alto deployments across Azure, OpenStack, and hybrid environments.
- AppDynamics APM rollouts. ClearPass NAC and Aruba wireless across enterprise.
- Projects: Bank AlBilad, SEU, Mashroat, ACIG, TCC, SCFHS.
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Tools I built where the platform stopped short.
A slice of the arsenal, proprietary systems in production for national-scale clients. The what is proven; the how stays in the vault. See everything I've built →
API → Metrics Engine
Makes data no monitoring platform can see arrive natively inside an enterprise observability stack. The ingestion method is ████████████.
Public-Cloud Monitor
Turns a public cloud's live health into something an on-prem stack polls like a local device. A single binary, dashboard, API, and ████████ in one.
Fleet Command Platform
Reconfigures thousands of multi-vendor devices in a single run, backup, diff, rollback, RBAC, audit. The orchestration core is ███████████.
Distributed Telemetry Grid
Featherweight agents on every server report to one control plane, metrics, services, app-level instrumentation, alert routing. The transport is ████████.
Connectivity Sentinel
An always-on watch over uptime, latency, and disconnect patterns, with history, rotation, and service install. The detection logic is ██████.
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Things I write.
Field notes from my homelab and open-source builds: home network security, self-hosted observability, and network engineering. All insights →
Why I Run OPNsense as My Home Firewall (with Suricata)
Why the ISP router is not a firewall, VLAN segmentation, Suricata IDS, and turning firewall logs into observability.
Self-Hosted Homelab Observability
Monitoring my network with Proxmox, ntopng, Docker, FastAPI and OPNsense: six browser tabs into one real-time dashboard.
Flow Telemetry at Home: Suricata, Vector & ClickHouse
A passive network flow warehouse: Suricata EVE into Vector into ClickHouse rollups, with anomaly detection.
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Capability matrix.
Observability
- Riverbed NetIM
- NetProfiler
- AppResponse
- Portal
- APM
- Packet Analyzer
- NPM / EUEM
- NetFlow / SNMP
- Custom MIB design
- Auto-grouping
Cybersecurity
- Palo Alto
- Cortex XDR
- Tenable / Nessus
- Skybox
- AlgoSec
- Nipper
- ManageEngine
- NCA / NIST
- Vuln management
- Segmentation
Engineering
- Python
- FastAPI
- PyQt
- Async / parallel
- SSH automation
- JSON / DSLs
- HTML / CSS / JS
- Docker
Architecture
- Multi-cloud
- Azure · OpenStack
- Hybrid design
- Dependency mapping
- PS methodology
- Stakeholder mgmt
- Executive reporting
/ delivered for
The institutions that move the country.
/ credentials
Certifications & education.
- Associate Degree in Networking College of Telecom & Information · CCNA, CCNA Security, MCSA, CompTIA A+
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Let's build something.
Open to advisory, consulting, and full-time conversations. Replies are fastest during KSA business hours. Read my insights →