Laith Rafid

Remote Everywhere | General Partner @ BackSeat Venture

Loves to build and simplify complicated ideas, infrastructures and products to be used by everyone.
Experienced engineer in automation, DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code, product development and innovation.
Now building companies and fueling innovation rides through capital...

Experience

General Partner

BackSeat Venture
Pre-seed | Seed | Series A
2024 - Present

Technical Consultant

BAYT.cloud
Microservices | GitOps | DevSecOps | SRE | CI/CD | IAC | Cloud & Hybrid Infrastructures | Multi-cloud | Product Management | Product Innovation
2018 - 2024

Education and Continous Learning

Private Equity and Venture Capital

Università Bocconi/Coursera
2021

Product Management for High Impact

Udemy, Remote
2018

Technology Innovation Management (Not-Completed)

Master of Engineering
Carleton University, Ottawa,Canada
2015

Electrical Communications and Electronics Systems engineering

Dual Bachelor of Science in Engineering
University Of Greenwich, London, UK and MSA University, Cairo, Egypt
2013

Technical Training

Architecting Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure with Anthos
Managing and Automating Cloud Infrastructure and Networks with Terraform
Developing, Measuring and Managing a Google SRE Culture
Google Cloud and Coursera, Remote
2020, 2018 and 2017
Kubernetes fundamentals, Administration and Architecting
CNCF/The Linux Foundation, Remote
2017
Puppet Enterprise Fundamentals and Practitioner
Puppet Official Training, Remote
2017
DevOps Path - Auditor learner
Cisco CCENT/CCNA, VMware Horizon 6, vCenter Orchestrator 5.5 Foundations for vSphere Administrators, A+, Network+, CCNA, VCA-DCV6, VCP-DCV6 (VMware VSphere 6), FCNSA, EMCISA, Docker DevOps, RHCE, MCSA (Windows Server 2008)
CBT Nuggets, Linux Academy and Code Academy, Remote
2016

Core Skills

  • 💼 Deal Sourcing
  • 🔍 Due Diligence
  • 🤝 Negotiation
  • 📈 Portfolio Support
  • 🏛️ Capital Fundraising and Global Market Analysis
  • 💡 Investment Thesis and strategy building
  • 👥 Leadership

Technical Skills

Operating Systems
Virtualization and Cloud Computing
    • Configuration , Build , Release
    data backend and servers
    Programing and Scripting
    collab tools

Volunteering

Refugees and humanitarian

CCI and IRCC, Ottawa, Canada
St.andrew’s Refugee Service, RLAP and Cartas, Cairo, Egypt
League of Arab States and UNHCR, Cairo, Egypt
2009-2017

Tech and Entrepreneurship

Startup Open House, Startup Canada and SAAS NORTH Conference, Ottawa, Canada.
2016-2017