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Seattle, WA, US

· Migrated six critical shared services from ECS to EC2, significantly enhancing the performance and reliability of the infrastructure.· Led the transition from Datadog monitoring and logging to OpenTelemetry tracing, leveraging third-party services such as Prometheus and Jaeger.· Utilized GitHub Actions to deploy Terraform IaC changes across all service.

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Spearheaded the recruitment, onboarding, mentoring, and leadership of a dynamic team proficient in the full spectrum of cloud technologies and infrastructure services across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Planned and oversaw the development of a Terraform CI/CD pipeline utilizing GitLab, automating the deployment of IaC to client AWS accounts. This streamlined workflows, enhanced collaboration, and optimized project.
• Coordinated the seamless transition from third-party toolsets and help desk system to Jira and Confluence. This initiative streamlined workflows, enhanced collaboration, and optimized project management processes for.

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Prioritized and addressed high and critical priority tickets, specializing in rapid resolution of issues related to environment and resource creation, security/compliance, and troubleshooting within AWS cloud.
• Collaborated closely with various clients on multiple projects, ensuring complete fulfillment of their technical and security-related requirements while optimizing for cost and time to delivery.
• Expanded personal expertise in IaC and CI/CD pipelines: acquiring theoretical and hands-on experience with Terraform and AWS CDK, while deepening understanding of CloudFormation and CodePipeline.

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Diligently addressed low and medium priority tickets, specializing in break-fix engineering, environment troubleshooting, security incident response, IAM policies, and user account creation.
• Demonstrated mastery in an array of key AWS services, including but not limited to EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC, Systems Manager, Config, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, SNS, Route 53, Transfer Family, and Fargate.

• Researched and studied in technological fields including cloud architecture and data analytics
• Excelled in developing the skills and mental resilience needed to be a successful officer

Bellevue, Washington

• Constructed and maintained AWS cloud environments for an innovative startup
• Developed data-driven algorithms to determine successful patterns for millions of Instagram posts
• Created website content, studied website analytics, and utilized proficient SEO strategies

Electrical Engineering Department

• Taught basic circuit theory at a conceptual level for the University’s Electrical Engineering Department
• Strived to gain feedback from TA and students to improve the course curriculum

Bingen, WA

• Worked with a power distribution team for a fixed-wing surveillance drone contractor
• Mined data from engineering reports and modeled it for statistical analysis
• Simulated faulty motor circuitry to determine the sources of various issues

Bremerton, Washington

• Automated multiple data entry processes
• Obtained a Secret-level security clearance

Master Of Science In Electrical Engineering, Control Systems, Data Science

Activities and Societies: Triangle FraternityConcentrated in control system design, optimization, and estimation. For my master’s research.

Bachelor Of Science In Electrical Engineering, Control Systems; Power Electronics

Activities and Societies: Autonomous Flight Systems Lab (AFSL), Networked Control Lab, Eta Kappa Nu (Honor Society)Concentrated in control.