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Collaborated with diverse clients to understand their unique business needs and goals.Designed and implemented scalable cloud solutions tailored to clients' specific requirements, ensuring optimal performance and efficiency.Provided expert consultation to clients on cloud architecture best practices, guiding them through strategic decision-making processes.Conducted thorough assessments of clients' existing systems, identifying opportunities for improvement and optimization in alignment with industry standards.Delivered personalized training sessions to clients' teams, empowering them to effectively leverage and manage cloud resources.Fostered strong client relationships through clear communication, regular updates, and responsiveness to address any concerns or modifications.Demonstrated a commitment to delivering high-quality solutions on time and within budget, exceeding client expectations.Demonstrated security and operations best practices using Aws Security Tools.Improved development velocity by smoothing CI/CD pipelines and improving time to production from development.

Successfully orchestrated and executed the migration from a single AWS account to a multi-account architecture, optimizing resource allocation and enhancing security through compartmentalization. Conducted training sessions for teams to familiarize them with the new multi-account structure, empowering them to effectively manage and utilize resources in the updated environment.Demonstrated expertise in optimizing cost management within a multi-account framework, implementing strategies to monitor and control expenses across different accounts.Designed and implemented multiple testing and QA environments, optimizing the infrastructure for efficient and reliable software testing processes using CloudFormation Infrastructure as Code.Spearheaded the migration initiative to convert the base operating system from RedHat Linux to Ubuntu Linux, seamlessly transitioning systems while minimizing disruptions and ensuring compatibility.Implemented and maintained robust monitoring systems for real-time visibility into the health and performance of infrastructure components, enabling proactive issue resolution.Enhanced security reporting by leveraging AWS services such as Security Hub, Inspector, GuardDuty, and Trusted Advisor, providing comprehensive insights into the security posture of the infrastructure and enabling proactive risk mitigation.Migrated Multi TB Sql Server Database from Azure into Aws, reducing hosting cost, improving security and overcoming the maximum database size in Azure.

Led growing, international DevOps team from 4 members to 10.Led SOC 2 compliance with Security Officer, DevOps, Security, Data, and Engineering teams.Collaborated with Aws Technical Account Manager to bring up technical issues and manage Aws support.Worked with a new Security team to achieve Security best practices and remove roadblocks.Collaborated with a growing Data team to ensure database scalability and implemented new Data related technologies.Managed and mentored Junior and Mid Level DevOps Engineers.Created requirements and support for hiring DevOps Engineers, Security Engineers and other Development Engineering teams.Defined and implemented specialization roles within the DevOps team.

Provided SysAdmin/Dba support for previous DevOps operations.Performed database migration and recovery for MySql and MariaDb systems.Set up and configured Jenkins automation server. Configured automated build jobs and CI/CD Pipelines for several applications with on premises and Aws deployment.Mentored Junior DevOps in Jenkins, automation, and Docker development.Set future DevOps vision with several Directors and C-Suite to include automation, infrastructure as code, new logging, monitoring, alerting policies.Migrated Git Repositories from self hosted GitLab to BitBucket.Managed HAProxy Load Balancers to web based nginx/Apache servers running Php and Java.Maintained Rancher installations to manage Kubernetes clusters used for several application environments.

Wrote CloudFormation script and deployment automation for Enterprise based Client Application, allowing separate, custom infrastructure for single and multi tenant systems.Set up DevOps CI/CD pipeline for deployment of applications in an Aws environment.Made improvements to local environment development and testing using Docker with MySql, Nginx, Php-Fpm and other containers.

Developed standardized Microservice Architecture, including creation of new Services from template Code, Infrastructure using CloudFormation, and one click Jenkins Deployment.Designed and Maintained CloudFormation-based (Infrastructure as Code) scripts, converting Applications running on a single, manually deployed server to Auto Scaling Ec2 Instances behind a Load Balancer.Separated Web and Cron functionality from a Legacy Application running on a single server so Web was run from an Ec2 Auto Scaling Group; reduced web based downtime and improved Application speed.Guided Team Leads with Development of several Microservices; both Ec2 (Php) based and Lambda (Node.js and Python) based.Improved Logging (Splunk, Bugsnag), Monitoring (CloudWatch, CloudTrail) and Alerting (CloudWatch, Splunk, Sns, PagerDuty) processes for Application and Database events.Created Splunk Dashboards for Application and Database MonitoringWorked with the Database team to optimize queries that showed in the slow query log.Wrote over 400 pages of Application, Data, and Operations Documentation.Mentored Developers of all levels to learn better scaling and reliability practices, newer, better deployment processes, CloudFormation and integrating various Aws technologies in their Applications (Sns, Sqs, S3, Secrets Manager, etc.).Involved heavily in the Development hiring process; worked with Directors of Recruiting and Development to interview candidates and recommended positions within the Development Team.Worked with the IT team to achieve PCI compliance on the Aws Cloud side.

Found and fixed problems with slow and unreliable development.Created system demos for possible investors and sales teams.Managed offshore development team.Redesigned user interface for a better and easier user experience.Auto Scaled back end Api Servers (EC2) and converted Front End Angular Deployment to S3/CloudFront.Automated deployments for production and development systems using Jenkins.Created scalable, multi city solution for managing social media platforms.Designed and implemented tools for third party white labeling systems.

Migrated online ecommerce solution from Magento 1 to Magento 2.Expanded Magento based e-commerce website for eventual international sales.Implemented custom extended functionality to enhance business functionality.Implemented AWS cloud architecture; including Auto Scaling EC2, RDS, and CloudFront for scalability.

Re-architected old Point of Sale from scratch using Laravel as a Php Framework, AngularJS as a Javascript Framework and a MySQL database.Created Cloud Native Saas Point of Sale Application.Designed and implemented Database table designs for project features.Developed and optimized search and reporting queries.Architected in house Api Framework over Laravel’s architecture and MVC Framework over Angular’s architecture.Managed integration between Point of Sale, Website, and Distribution systems.Responsible for Weekly Sprint deployments, usually at night, including automated Database Migrations.Developed project plan and timeline with Project Manager and other Stakeholders.Managed and Mentored Associate, Junior, and Part Time Developers.Led Team growth from 2 Developers to 15 Developers, Designers and Testers.