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Ayoub Dardory

Ayoub Dardory Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer – AI Automation

Reliability and automation for the cloud and Web3 platforms other engineers build on.

Software engineer by background, leading platform engineering at CrossBar Inc. and using AI to automate DevOps and SRE work. Before that he worked with the teams behind Axelar, Chainlink and Polymesh, and earlier at NVLP, ConsenSys, OLX Group and Schibsted.

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Latest certificationClaude Certified Architect – FoundationsAnthropic

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Discipline
DevOps · SRE · Platform engineering
Focus
Reliability · AI automation · Release engineering
Platforms
Kubernetes · Terraform · AWS · GCP
Domain
Cloud & Web3 infrastructure

01Selected work

4 teams

Infrastructure for cross-chain, oracle and financial networks.

The four teams where he did most of this work, current team first. Each entry covers his share of a team effort. Summaries stay high level on purpose: architecture and security details are only in the full resume.

CrossBar Inc.

Web3 platform · Current

Leads platform engineering across the company’s engineering teams: cloud architecture, infrastructure as code, blockchain RPC infrastructure and the incident response process, from tooling to runbooks.

Role
Platform Engineering Lead
Domain
Web3 platform · Multi-chain
Areas
Platform leadership · Cloud architecture · RPC infrastructure · Incident management

Metrics and real impact for this role are in the full resume: fill in the resume request form to get it.

Axelar Network

Interoperability Protocol

Automated chain configuration changes, cutting release time from days to minutes, and built the release pipelines for the Axelar SDKs. Added monitoring for on-chain events and ran the Kubernetes platform behind the network’s services.

Role
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Domain
Cross-chain interoperability
Areas
Release automation · On-chain monitoring · Kubernetes

Metrics and real impact for this role are in the full resume: fill in the resume request form to get it.

Polymesh

Formerly Polymath

Took part in the move from testnet to mainnet, automated validator deployments and built monitoring for on-chain activity. Also reworked the release workflows for internal tooling.

Role
Senior DevOps Engineer
Domain
Blockchain for regulated financial markets
Areas
Mainnet launch · Validator automation · On-chain monitoring

Metrics and real impact for this role are in the full resume: fill in the resume request form to get it.

02Experience

4 roles

Earlier experience

A crypto exchange, blockchain consulting and online marketplaces. He started on full-stack product work and moved on to running platforms on AWS.

  • NVLP Digital NVLP Group

    Senior DevOps / Cloud Engineer

    Architected the core infrastructure for a cryptocurrency exchange, from a highly available Kubernetes platform and access control to infrastructure as code, CI/CD for every service and monitoring.

    Metrics and real impact for this role are in the full resume: fill in the resume request form to get it.

  • ConsenSys

    Senior Software Engineer / DevOps

    Built backend features and ran DevOps for a decentralized e-learning platform within Smart Dubai’s blockchain initiatives. Contributed to a Blockchain-Platform-as-a-Service built with du, and helped run CI/CD across internal projects.

    Metrics and real impact for this role are in the full resume: fill in the resume request form to get it.

  • Shedd Dubizzle, OLX Group

    Back-end / DevOps Engineer

    Built B2C features for Shedd’s launches in the UAE, Australia, Bulgaria and Spain, and ran its AWS infrastructure for high availability.

    Metrics and real impact for this role are in the full resume: fill in the resume request form to get it.

  • Avito Schibsted Media Group

    Full Stack Engineer

    Shipped features and bug fixes for the platform, and built tooling that automated moderation and cut its costs.

    Metrics and real impact for this role are in the full resume: fill in the resume request form to get it.

03Projects

7 active · 5 earlier

Personal projects, from idea to production.

He builds and runs these alongside his day job: Moroccan fintech tools, job boards, video services and developer APIs. Active projects come first; he no longer maintains the earlier ones.

Active

  • An identity and account validation API for the MENA region. Checks UAE phone numbers, Emirates ID numbers, Tax Registration Numbers and IBANs against published numbering plans, issuer rules and bank code allocations, with no SMS or external lookup.

    Status
    Active

  • Verification of Moroccan bank account details (RIB). Businesses and developers validate RIB numbers, bank codes and branch codes through an API or a dashboard.

    Status
    Active

  • A video studio for podcast shows. Send an episode and get back a finished, full-length video with the show’s branding, chapter cards and burned-in captions, ready to upload to YouTube.

    Status
    Active

  • Moroccan dirham exchange rates from Bank Al-Maghrib’s daily reference rates: buy and sell prices for the euro, US dollar, pound sterling, Gulf currencies and more, with history for each currency and a converter.

    Status
    Active

  • A 24/7 live stream of a radar-style map of the world’s air traffic, built on public ADS-B data. During breaking news the stream zooms in on the affected area to show diversions, holding patterns and empty skies, and viewers steer the map through chat commands on YouTube and Twitch.

    Status
    Active

  • A monitoring platform for public and private calls for tenders in Morocco. Search, follow and analyse tenders, with market details, eligibility criteria and bid documents in one place.

    Status
    Active

  • A healthcare job board for the UAE, Saudi Arabia and the wider GCC, listing vacancies for nurses, doctors, pharmacists and allied health professionals at hospitals, clinics and medical centres across the Gulf.

    Status
    Active

Earlier · no longer maintained

  • Head-to-head comparison videos and stats for the biggest football matchups.

    Status
    Online, no longer maintained

  • Hares (“the guardian” in Arabic) is a REST API covering millions of IP addresses owned by hosting providers. System administrators and DevOps teams use it to see which traffic reaching their systems comes from a hosting provider.

    Status
    Online, no longer maintained
    Stack
    Python

  • NFTNDX (“NFT Index”) lists only authenticated NFTs minted by verified celebrities and public personalities, and tracks who owns them in real time across marketplaces.

    Status
    Online, no longer maintained
    Stack
    Node.js · JavaScript

  • Serefly

    serefly.com

    Serefly (“exchange for me” in Moroccan Darija) brought small independent currency exchange offices together in one place: people posted the amount they wanted to exchange and received quotes.

    Status
    Discontinued
    Stack
    Node.js · JavaScript
    Watch demo

  • REMVID

    remvid.io

    An online tool for real-estate agencies and agents to generate marketing videos on the fly, ready to share on social media and in advertising campaigns.

    Status
    Discontinued
    Stack
    Node.js · JavaScript · Shell
    Watch demo

04About

Profile · Skills

About Ayoub

Ayoub Dardory is a Senior DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer with a software engineering background.

He has spent most of his career on Web3 infrastructure: cross-chain protocols, oracle node networks and blockchains for regulated finance. Online he goes by Apolikamixitos, and he writes at 4ts.io.

AI automation is part of his DevOps and SRE work: he uses Claude Code, agents and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to automate operational tasks. He holds the Claude Certified Architect – Foundations certification from Anthropic, which covers Claude Code, the Claude Agent SDK, the Claude API and MCP.

This site is a summary. The full resume, with the details left out here for security reasons, is available on request.

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Disciplines
DevOps · Site Reliability Engineering · Platform engineering
Focus
Reliability · Automation · Release engineering · AI automation
Platforms
Kubernetes · Terraform · AWS · GCP
AI tooling
Claude Code · Claude Agent SDK · Claude API · MCP
Domains
Web3 infrastructure · Blockchain operations · Scalable cloud platforms
Languages
English · French · Arabic · Berber (Tashelhit)
Nationality
Moroccan
Handle
Apolikamixitos

05Certifications

6 credentials

Certifications

AI and cloud architecture, software engineering and English language certifications, plus verified academic qualifications.

06Contact

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