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About

Mahmoud Khalifa

Storage and SAN is where I am most at home. I have run SRDF cutovers inside live change windows, designed dual-site PowerMax and VPLEX Metro, and swapped SAN directors while replication kept running underneath. I have moved whole datacenters for banks, utilities, and government bodies without taking the applications offline. The data and AI work I do now runs on that same foundation — the layer is new, the discipline is not.

RoleInfrastructure / Storage Solutions Architect · Data & AI Engineer
Based inFrisco, Texas (Dallas-Fort Worth)
FocusEnterprise storage, SAN, migrations, DR & business continuity
Delivered200+ projects · 100+ accounts · 20+ countries
Years22 — Fujitsu field engineering, Dell EMC Solutions Architect (7 yrs), now platform engineering
CertifiedEMC Technology Architect Expert (full ladder, 7 knowledge-maintenance cycles) · 3× AWS Associate · VCE Vblock · Red Hat Certified System Administrator
ReachNorth America · 20+ named GCC & MENA accounts
LanguagesEnglish · Arabic · Python

How I work

Read the error before you escalate. The answer is usually in the output, not the vendor's queue.

"It runs" and "it's correct" are two different claims. I only ship the second one.

A 30-second guard check beats an unrecoverable fabric at 2am. Every time.

What's on this site

m-khalifa.com is my personal portfolio, including a live AI-twin chat trained on my own career facts — ask it about my background directly. Beyond the portfolio, I maintain a small cluster of practitioner reference sites, each free and ad-free unless otherwise noted:

Storage Field Guide

Cross-vendor storage REST API reference, replication command mapping, SAN engineering tools.

Infrastructure for AI

GPU systems, fabrics, storage for training, schedulers, inference infrastructure.

Zero to AI Engineer

A topic-based path from first principles through GPU systems and distributed training.

Field Notes

Practitioner articles on multi-vendor infrastructure monitoring and replication.

Get in touch

See the Contact page, or connect directly on LinkedIn.