AWS Solutions Architect - Cloud Engineer at CAMPF Cloud Consulting Services Inc. (2024-09 – 2024-12)
- Designed and deployed production cloud solutions, matching AWS infrastructure services to specific business demands for scaling and redundancy.
- Controlled cloud spend by analyzing resource usage, creating budget forecasts, and resizing underutilized infrastructure to balance cost with performance.
- Managed on-premises to cloud migrations, auditing legacy application setups and executing step-by-step data and workload transfers.
- Hardened environment security by implementing data encryption, setting up strict Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies, and reviewing systems for compliance gaps.
- Worked directly with clients and internal developers to translate business needs into technical designs, recommending platform, software, and network configurations.
- Created disaster recovery plans, setting up automated backup validation routines to ensure data could be recovered quickly during a failure.
- Wrote and presented technical documentation, including test plans, architectural blueprints, lab reports, and stakeholder briefings for enterprise configurations.
AWS Server Engineer/Junior DevOps at Vavasoftware Corporation (2024-12 – Present)
- Built automated log analysis pipelines using n8n and custom Bash scripts, cutting down the time it takes to detect and fix daily server anomalies across AWS EC2.
- Set up and configured monitoring tools (Grafana, Zabbix, ELK Stack, Percona PMM, Uptime Kuma) on Ubuntu EC2 instances, using event-driven n8n workflows to push real-time critical alerts straight to Telegram.
- Handled edge security and domain performance by managing Cloudflare WAF rules, DNS routing, SSL/TLS certificates, and caching strategies.
- Managed multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure, handling day-to-day provisioning for EC2/VM instances, S3 storage buckets, IAM roles, and Network Security Groups.
- Deployed and configured Nginx web servers and reverse proxies to manage backend application traffic, load distribution, and SSL termination.
- Automated server backups and data retention policies using AWS Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) and scheduled Bash scripts to reduce unnecessary storage costs.
- Acted as first line of defense during active DDoS attacks, maintaining system uptime by analyzing live CPU/memory metrics and spinning up Cloudflare's Advanced DDoS protection.
- Provisioned and initialized self-hosted GitLab instances on AWS EC2, establishing the secure baseline infrastructure required for the team's CI/CD workflows.
