Menna I.

About Menna I.

Menna is a passionate and challenge-driven infrastructure engineer who thrives on solving complex problems through deep analysis and investigation. She is energized by connecting technical and operational dots, researching best approaches, gathering diverse perspectives, and designing well-structured processes that translate into scalable, effective automation.With a background that blends software development and enterprise infrastructure operations, Menna brings a systems-level mindset to storage and data protection environments. She approaches challenges holistically — understanding operational realities first, then designing automation frameworks and process improvements that create measurable impact and long-term resiliency.Menna has built her career across the telecommunications and financial services industries since graduating from Computer Engineering in 2010, supporting large-scale enterprise environments with strict availability and regulatory requirements. She has hands-on experience across enterprise storage systems — all the way from the beginning of EMC DMX and VMAX platforms through the Dell PowerMax family — along with SAN switching technologies, replication, and block storage architectures.Her data protection expertise includes Dell PowerProtect Data Manager (PPDM), PowerProtect Cyber Recovery (CRS and CyberSense), Data Domain, Rubrik, and NetApp platforms. She has driven storage encryption initiatives, strengthened infrastructure controls in alignment with PCI DSS requirements, and built automation frameworks using Ansible, Python, REST APIs, and CMDB integrations to modernize and enhance backup and recovery operations.Throughout her career, Menna has consistently focused on capacity planning, performance optimization, disaster recovery readiness, compliance automation, and infrastructure modernization. She brings analytical depth, operational clarity, and structured process thinking to every initiative she leads or supports.

Experience

1. Senior Storage & Infrastructure Engineer

   USAA

   Apr 2020 — Present · Houston, TX, US

Education

• Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University

  Bachelor, Computer Engineering

  2005 — 2010

Skills

• C
• Software Engineering
• Unix
• Shell Scripting
• Servers
• System Administration
• Linux
• Emc Storage Solutions
• Java
• Unix Shell Scripting
• Operating Systems
• Data Storage Technologies
• Uml
• C++
• Storage
• San
• C#
• Oop