Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Demonstrates expertise in designing distributed systems on AWS. Validates skills in architecting and deploying secure and robust applications.

CompTIA Security+

CompTIA Security+

Validates baseline skills in IT security and risk management. Covers topics such as network security, threats, vulnerabilities, and compliance.

Skills

AWS

  • VPC design & network segmentation
  • High‑availability setups: multi‑AZ, Auto Scaling
  • Cost‑optimization: rightsizing, Savings Plans/Reserved Instances, Spot usage
  • Migration planning: lift‑and‑shift with Migration Hub, SMS, DMS
  • Disaster‑recovery design: backups, snapshots, cross‑region replication
  • Monitoring & observability: CloudWatch metrics/alarms, Logs, X‑Ray tracing

Security

  • IAM policy creation, least‑privilege roles, MFA, cross‑account access
  • Data protection: SSE‑S3/KMS, bucket policies, versioning, lifecycle rules
  • Secure configuration of OS, network devices & applications
  • Defense‑in‑depth controls (firewalls, IDS/IPS, segmentation)
  • Vulnerability scanning & patch management (Nessus, OpenVAS, WSUS)

Systems Administration

  • Linux administration (multiple distros, Bash/PowerShell automation)
  • Docker container management & self‑hosting
  • Virtualized infrastructures with VMware (VM provisioning, clustering)
  • Infrastructure‑as‑code with Terraform / CloudFormation & CI/CD integration
  • Monitoring & observability (Prometheus/Grafana, syslog, alerts)

Projects

Cloud Resume Challenge

This is my submission for the Cloud Resume Challenge. The website is hosted on AWS using S3, CloudFront, Route53 and ACM. The infrastructure is managed using Terraform and the CI/CD pipeline is implemented using AWS CodePipeline.