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Habeeb Karadan

Head of Observability & Monitoring  ยท  Emirates Group IT

๐Ÿ“ Dubai, UAE

Technology leader passionate about turning telemetry into actionable business insights and empowering engineering teams to innovate faster.

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About Me

Technology leader with 20+ years of experience in enterprise IT operations, Observability, monitoring transformation, and operational resilience within large-scale mission-critical environments.

Currently leading the Observability capability at Emirates Group IT, driving the transformation from traditional monitoring to a modern unified Observability platform focused on measurable business outcomes, operational intelligence, proactive incident prevention, and enhanced digital experience.

I strongly believe the future of IT operations lies in intelligent, contextual, and business-aware Observability that empowers engineering teams to innovate faster while ensuring exceptional customer experiences.

Observability AIOps Platform Engineering Digital Experience Monitoring Operational Excellence Reliability Engineering Enterprise Transformation IT Strategy Cloud & Hybrid Monitoring Automation

What I Do

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Observability Transformation

Leading enterprise-wide shift from traditional monitoring to unified Observability platforms delivering measurable business outcomes.

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AIOps & Incident Prevention

Driving proactive incident detection using AI/ML-powered operations to reduce MTTR and improve service reliability.

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Digital Experience Monitoring

Aligning Observability strategies with customer experience, application reliability, and engineering productivity.

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Team Leadership

Building high-performing teams and influencing enterprise-wide transformation that delivers tangible business value.

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Platform Engineering

Architecting centralized logging, distributed tracing, synthetic monitoring, and hybrid infrastructure observability solutions.

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Operational Resilience

Ensuring service reliability engineering and operational excellence across mission-critical enterprise environments.

Interests

๐Ÿ’ผ At Work

  • Managing complex initiatives and driving teams to success
  • Enterprise transformation strategy
  • Mentoring and engineering enablement
  • Turning Observability data into business insights

๐Ÿ  Personal

  • Learning new technologies
  • Home automation hobby projects
  • Helping others get comfortable with technology
  • Building small tech utilities that solve real problems

Utilities

This is my experiments with tools