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Leesburg, Virginia, United States

Deployed network components, including subnet and VNet planning, VPN Gateway, SD-WAN, ExpressRoute, and NSGs, optimizing connectivity.Configured Azure identity services, including Azure AD, IAM, RBAC, SSO, and MFA, ensuring secure and compliant access.Led the deployment of Azure VM and App Service Environments, facilitating scalable and reliable applicationhosting.Controlled and interactively migrated workloads from on-prem hosting platforms to Azure, utilizing best practices for seamless transitions.Increase application deployment speed by 40% through CI/CD pipelines.Designed and deployed available systems using availability sets, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Scale Sets, AzureBackup, and load balancing for high availability.Integrated Prisma Cloud GitHub application into the project's GitHub repository, to prevent the merge of insecure code changes by identifying and blocking pull requests containing insecure IaC templates or container configurations, ensuring that only secure code is merged into the repository.Leveraged Prisma Cloud's industry-leading threat and vulnerability database for security assessments to gaincomprehensive insights into known threats and vulnerabilities, enabling the team to prioritize and remediatesecurity issues based on their severity and impact on the application's infrastructure.Developed hardened security solutions using Azure Sentinel, Application Gateway, TLS certificates, Azure Firewall, Azure Defender, and NSGs.Worked with Data systems, including Azure Data Factory, Synapse, Azure SQL, and Managed Instances, ensuring efficient data management.Provided operational maintenance and monitoring of Cloud-based solutions, ensuring optimal performance and reliability.

United States

Collaborated with project stakeholders to identify product and technical requirements, ensuring alignment with business goals.Conducted in-depth analysis to determine integration needs and implemented solutions to streamline processes.Designed new software and web applications, providing support for applications under development and customizing current applications.Integrated Prisma Cloud CI/CD plugin into CI/CD pipeline to automatically scan templates and container images for security issues, enhancing the security posture of the pipeline.Installed Prisma Cloud IDE plugin to receive real time security alerts within Microsoft Visual Studio, enabling VS Code to address security issues during the development stage, reducing the likelihood of vulnerabilities inproduction deployments.Defined customized security policies and failure criteria within Prisma Cloud to align security practices with the unique needs of the project , ensuring that security that security checks are tailored to address relevant threats and vulnerabilities effectively.Utilized Jenkins Jobs and Terraform templates to lead deployments from start to finish, including staging, UAT, and production environments, achieving a 30% reduction in deployment time and improved code quality by enforcing automated testing and continuous integration practices.Leveraged Kubernetes to build and deploy various applications, including web services, microservices-based architectures, and databases.Migrated microservice based application from Virtual Machines to Docker containers and managed clustered containers using Kubernetes.Strong experience in creating pods using Kubernetes and working with Jenkins CI/CD pipelines to drive all micros-services build-out to Docker registry and then deployed to Kubernetes.Assisted in the software update process for existing applications and roll-outs of software releases.Presented and defended architectural, design, and technical choices to internal audiences.

Bachelor'S Of Science, Cloud Computing, Information Technology

Bachelor'S Degree, Da Vinci Program Venture Creation Certificate

Bachelor'S Degree, Business, Marketing, Senior

Activities and Societies: Vice President of First Love Church (June 2018-Present) Money Coach at Money Spot (April 2018- May 2019)