Joseph Ting

My name is Joseph and I have over a year of experience in AWS and DevOps. I have worked with numerous services, designing and implementing complex architectures, such as three-tier and serverless architectures. I have also implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Maven, Sonarqube, Nexus, Prometheus and more. I am also experienced with using Python to automate tasks in the cloud. I am also knowledgeable about containerization and orchestration such as Docker and Kubernetes. On top of my professional AWS certification, I am also a certified Azure administrator.

DevOps/Cloud engineer/Solutions architect trainee

January 2022–Present

• Managing code versioning using git.
• Designing and diagramming highly available, secure, fault tolerant and cost optimized solutions.
• Administering linux virtual machines (e.g. creating users, assigning permissions, shell scripting, configuring files, etc).
• Configuring networking components (VPC, VNET) including: Ipsec VPN tunnel, peering connections, transit gateway, VPC endpoints, security groups and NACLs.
• Employing security best practices (e.g. developing IAM resources using principles of least privilege). 
• Utilizing security tools such as WAF, Shield, load balancers, and etc.
• Implementing compliance tools such as CloudTrail, AWS Config, and etc.
• Automating patching and configuration management of servers using Ansible.
• Performing homogenous and heterogenous database migration on the cloud.
• Automating tasks in ec2, s3 and more using Boto3 and Lambda.
• Using IaC tools (e.g. terraform, cloudformation, ARM templates) to automate deployment of resources, abiding by best practices (e.g. modularizing, variables, etc.).
• Automating CI/CD Pipeline with Jenkins, incorporating technologies such as Maven, Nexus Artifactory, Github, DAST scanner, Docker, Sonarqube and more.
• Performing continuous monitoring using prometheus and creating visualizations/dashboards with grafana.
• Containerizing/dockerizing a full stack web-app and deploying to EKS cluster.

Government of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta

February 2016–Current

• Serving as a SME to clients and stakeholders, providing technical expertise and consulting.
• Developing scripts/programs to perform advanced statistical analysis as well as automate mundane tasks. (using SAS, R and Python).
• Analyzing SQL databases.
• Successfully managing numerous projects requiring interdisciplinary collaboration, time management and prioritization. 
• Conveying technical concepts to non-technical audiences through presentations, reports, etc.

Certifications: AWS Solutions Architect Pro, AWS Developer Associate, Certified Kubernetes Administrator, Azure Administrator

Education

MA in Sociology (concentration: Statistics/Quantitative Methods)

University of Calgary

September 2014-August 2016

Completed a thesis where I conducted statistical analysis of survey data, using multiple and logistic regression, examining attitudes towards climate change.