From Incident to Stability: My Interactive DevOps Portfolio on Cloud Run

Noor Halabi — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 14:00:54 +0000

This is a submission for the New Year, New You Portfolio Challenge Presented by Google AI

About Me

I’m Noor Halabi, a DevOps-focused engineer with a background in full-stack development and a strong interest in systems reliability, automation, and cloud architecture.

Before moving fully into DevOps, I worked across the application layer, which shaped how I think about infrastructure today: not as isolated tools, but as systems that exist to support real users and real software.

With this portfolio, I wanted to go beyond listing skills and instead show how I think and operate when something breaks.

Portfolio

Instead of a traditional portfolio, I built an interactive DevOps system simulation.

The experience begins with a traffic spike incident. Rather than explaining what DevOps can do in text, the visitor experiences it:

an alert appears, the system scales, stability is restored. Only after then, the portfolio opens (I added a skip button for people who has visited my portfolio multiple times).

From there, the portfolio is presented as a running production system, with different operational views:

System overview
Delivery (CI/CD)
Incidents & lessons learned
Systems I’ve built and operated
Operator profile
Escalation

🔗 Live Portfolio (Google Cloud Run):

My portfolio is deployed on Google Cloud Run and includes the required challenge label: dev-tutorial=devnewyear2026

How I Built It

I used React for modern Front-end, Node.js (Express) for the Back-end, containerized with Docker, deployment and hosting on Google Cloud Run (serverless, container-based).

Google AI Tools

I used Antigravity, to design the system architecture, user flow, and component structure.
Gemini also assisted me with reasoning about UX, storytelling, and refining technical explanations.

Design Decisions

Single-page application with multiple operational views.
No long scrolling! navigation feels like switching dashboards.
Friendly for non-DevOps people, technical depth revealed through interaction.
Calm, stable UI after an initial moment of chaos (incident).
Supports dark and light mode, to match users' preferences.

The goal was to make the portfolio understandable for non-DevOps viewers, while still signaling real DevOps thinking to engineers.

What I'm Most Proud Of

Turning a portfolio into a system you operate, not a page you read.
Explaining DevOps concepts without jargon.
Modeling incidents, recovery, and delivery visually.
Successfully deploying and debugging a real production container on Google Cloud Run.
Using Google AI tools not just to generate code, but to reason about systems and experience.

This project represents how I want to work as an engineer:

calm under pressure, systems-oriented, and always improving.

Thanks for checking it out! I’d love to hear your thoughts or questions in the comments!

Hello Dev.to 👋

Noor Halabi — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 10:26:52 +0000

Hi everyone!
I’m Noor Halabi, a full-stack developer currently located in Jerusalem.

I recently joined Dev.to because I want to learn in public, share my journey honestly, and connect with people who care about building meaningful technology (not just shipping code).

🚀 Where I am now

I recently gradated from the ADAM Full-Stack Software Development Program at the University of Notre Dame, where I practically learnt:

Go, Rust, JavaScript
"Systems thinking": clean architecture, scalability, and efficiency
DevOps: I started my DevOps journey there and I'm still on my way to be the future DevOps Engineer🎉

I’m especially drawn to clean, readable code and systems that scale without becoming fragile.

At the same time, I’m actively improving my English and Hebrew communication skills, because great software is built by people who can think and collaborate well across cultures.

📊 Before tech: markets, data, and systems

Before diving fully into software development, I spent nearly two years exploring financial markets and digital currencies.

That experience gave me:

Strong data analysis & pattern recognition skills
A deep respect for risk management
A habit of thinking in systems, not isolated features

Interestingly, those skills transferred naturally into software engineering: debugging, architecture decisions, and performance trade-offs all feel very familiar.

🎮 A lifelong gamer

I’ve been gaming for over 15 years! Are you a gamer? I DEFINITELY would like to have a game with you 😉

What started as “just playing” slowly turned into:

Understanding game logic
Exploring server mechanics
Building creative systems inside constraints

That curiosity is honestly what pulled me toward game development and low-level systems in the first place.

🌱 What I care about

I don’t just want to be a “good developer.”

I want to:

Build things that actually help people
Grow into someone who uplifts others in tech
Learn continuously, even when it’s uncomfortable

🤝 Let’s connect

If you’re learning Go, Rust, full-stack development, or just enjoy discussing systems, code quality, or growth in tech. I’d love to connect with you, here and on LinkedIn!

Thanks for reading 🙌
Excited to learn from this community.

Noor

DEV Community: Noor Halabi