DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer with 6+ years automating cloud infrastructure on AWS. AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner. I turn "Click Ops" into fully automated, GitOps-driven systems that ship faster and fail less.
Spearheaded cloud infrastructure modernisation — transitioning from manual "Click Ops" to a fully automated, GitOps-driven IaC model using Terraform. Engineered and managed scalable EKS clusters with advanced resource management and right-sizing strategies that reduced cloud costs by 15% without impacting performance. Architected and implemented robust CI/CD pipelines for automated Kubernetes manifest deployments, slashing average deployment times by 35%.
Intensive cloud engineering training with a focus on AWS services, Linux administration, and DevOps methodologies. Designed and deployed highly available cloud architecture for web applications using EC2, S3, RDS, and Lambda. Implemented automated backup solutions and developed security best practices including IAM policies, security groups, and encryption standards.
Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, reducing deployment times by 40% through parallel job execution and optimised build processes. Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and CloudFormation, managing 50+ EC2 instances, RDS databases, and S3 buckets across 3 environments. Containerised 15+ applications with Docker and orchestrated deployments with Kubernetes (EKS). Reduced AWS costs by 25% through rightsizing, auto-scaling, and storage optimisation.
Developed and delivered curriculum for Python programming and full-stack web development using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and Django to 80+ students. Mentored students in software development best practices including version control, automated testing, and documentation.
Architected and deployed Django web applications with automated CI/CD pipelines via GitHub Actions and Jenkins. Implemented comprehensive automated testing frameworks (unit, integration, E2E) reducing production bugs by 35%. Migrated 8 legacy systems to AWS, improving scalability and reducing downtime by 90%. Led agile development team of 3 developers implementing Scrum methodologies. Provided cybersecurity consulting for SMBs, implementing measures that prevented attempted breaches.
Modular Terraform templates for VPCs, EC2, RDS, S3, and security groups. Reduced environment setup from 8 hours to 15 minutes. S3 backend with DynamoDB state locking and AWS Secrets Manager integration.
View Repository ↗End-to-end automation from commit to production. Multi-stage pipeline with parallel test execution, SonarQube quality gates, and zero-downtime blue-green deployments. Deploy time: 15 min → under 2 min.
View Repository ↗Django & Pandas provisioning tool on AWS EC2 with full CI/CD. Enabled sysadmins to provision and deprovision user workspaces with appropriate permissions. Reduced developer onboarding from 2 days to 30 minutes.
View Repository ↗Education
MS Information & Technology. Specialising in Cloud Computing, DevOps, SRE, and Systems Administration.
Intensive project-based training in CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, automation tools, and agile workflows.
12-week intensive: AWS fundamentals, Linux, networking, security, Python scripting, and automation.
BA Social Studies & History. GPA 3.55/4.0. Research Methods, Data Analysis, Critical Thinking.
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