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Abdelhalim El KhattabiAE

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About Abdelhalim

My name is Abdel, I help organizations reduce costs and increase efficiency by transforming and optimizing their Atlassian ecosystem.

My focus is on simplifying complex toolchains and redesigning how teams work with Jira and Confluence, ensuring scalable, standardized, and cost-effective solutions.

I specialize in:
•Consolidating and rationalizing Atlassian tools to eliminate redundancy and reduce licensing and operational costs
•Re-engineering processes to improve flow, remove inefficiencies, and align teams around best practices
•Designing Atlassian architectures that are scalable, maintainable, and easy to govern
•Standardizing workflows and configurations across teams to ensure consistency and reduce complexity
•Optimizing operational costs through better usage of Atlassian Cloud, automation, and governance models

My goal is always the same: less complexity, lower cost, and more value from Atlassian tools.
  • Arabic

    Native or bilingual

  • Spanish

    Native or bilingual

  • French

    Fluent

  • English

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Madrid (up to 50km)

Experience

  • knowmad mood
    Atlassian Architect & Engineer
    DIGITAL AND IT
    March 2025 - Today (1 year and 3 months)
    Madrid, Spain
    I help our clients to reduce costs and increase efficiency by transforming and optimizing their Atlassian ecosystem by simplifying complex toolchains and redesigning how teams work with Jira and Confluence, ensuring scalable, standardized, and cost-effective solutions.
    Atlassian JIRA Jira Atlassian Confluence Confluence Software
  • Valiantys
    Atlassian Senior Consultant
    January 2022 - January 2025 (3 years)
    Brussels, Belgium
    • • Support a variety of projects from EMEA Delivery team by administering Atlassian tools (Jira Service Management, Jira Software and Confluence with their third plugins) on their different ecosystem (Cloud, Server, Datacenter)
    • • Running multiple Atlassian consolidation-migration between Server-Cloud, Cloud-DC, Server- DC…)
    • • Assist users on Jira & Confluence configuration.
    • • Implement improvements to the Atlassian suite for multiple customers by advising on processes, tools, and governance in the Atlassian ecosystem.
    • • Designing technical & functional solutions.
    • • Communicating and managing customer expectations.
    • • Presales and licensing management
  • INETUM,
    Pre-sales and Atlassian consultant
    September 2018 - January 2022 (3 years and 4 months)
    Madrid, Spain
    • • First contact with customers
    • • Pre-sales Tasks (Estimation, Quotes...)
    • • Install, configure, manage, and maintain the entire Atlassian suite of applications in the Server and Cloud environment (Jira Software, Jira Service Desk, Confluence, NFeed, Xray, Scriptrunner, …)
    • • Ability to understand a customer's business objectives, vision, and goals, and to translate these into application requirements and specifications.
    • • Assist with planning, requirements gathering and other pre- implementation tasks.
    • • Comfortable moving between technologies, expanding skills, and eager to learn and take on new challenges using the agile methodology (Scrum and Kanban)
    • • Management and execution of Jira and app upgrades
    • • Documentation of manuals in confluence (user manual, technical manual, Implementation Manual...)
    • • Defining and configuring processes in Atlassian products
    • • Generation and maintenance of addons
    • • Manage the demand for services, including requests to the DevOps and QA Office
    • • Management of the entire DevOps CI/CT/CD cycle in Cloud Ecosystem (Jira Software, Xray, Confluence, GitHub, Azure Git, SonarQube, Jenkins, IriusRisk and ServiceNow)
    • • Advisory, evolutionary, and corrective support service for both JIRA Software application and Jira Service Management
    • • Improvements in the performance of the Atlassian platform.
    • • Best Practice consultancy for the use of the tools as part of the business.
    • • Analysis and optimisation of business processes
    • • Migration from Server to Atlassian Cloud products
    • • End-user training

    Customers
    • • Insurance
    • • Infrastructure

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Education

  • Jira Administrator for Cloud (ACP-120)
    Jira Administrator for Cloud (ACP-120)
  • Certified in Managing Jira Projects for Data Center (ACP-MJDP)
    Atlassian
    Certified in Managing Jira Projects for Data Center (ACP-MJDP)

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