Senior Cloud Architect β’ Cloud Native/AI β’ Modernization&Transformation
Montreal, Quebec β Canada π¨π¦
- πΌ Senior Cloud Architect building large-scale cloud-native platforms.
- π§© Deeply into Platform engineering, Infra Automation & Modernization, Linux.
- π€ Speaker at Red Hat Summit (Boston, 2025) β cloud-native automation for 5G CNFI environments.
- π Based in Montreal, QC (Canada) and active in cloud-native communities.
I believe platforms should function as a product: fully abstracted, self-service, and extensible where developers run any application effortlessly and activate operational features on demand.
Session: Core Infrastructure Automation for Telco at Scale
π Event link:
https://events.experiences.redhat.com/widget/redhat/sum25/SessionCatalog2025/session/1731531324902001V5Wf
A deep dive into building automated 5G CNFI telco infrastructures using OpenShift & RHACM, cloud-native tooling, and GitOps patterns.
Safely expose Velero backups & schedules to AI assistants using the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
π https://github.com/benzaidfoued/velero-mcp
- Backup CRDs
- Schedule CRDs
- Exposed MCP tools:
list_velero_backupslist_velero_schedulesget_velero_backupgenerate_velero_backup_yaml
- BGP-heavy K8 Multi-networking Β· Telco Core/Edge Β· IaC Β· Orchestration Β· VMWARE Β· OpenStack Β· AI Β· Security
- Go Β· Python Β· Bash
- Simply all toys π
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fouedbenzaid
GitHub: https://github.com/benzaidfoued


