Professional Summary
Builds production-grade infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD automation, container orchestration, and security-by-default practices. Background in marketing operations and QA automation adds a data-driven, test-first, and delivery-focused perspective to infrastructure engineering.
Certifications
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03)
- Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CCP)
Technical Skills
- AWS: EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, Lambda, DynamoDB, EKS, CloudFront, Route 53, API Gateway
- IaC: Terraform modules, state management, drift detection, CloudFormation
- Containers & Orchestration: Kubernetes, Helm, RBAC, Docker, docker-compose
- CI/CD & GitOps: GitHub Actions, Argo CD, blue/green and canary deployment patterns
- Observability & Security: Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, X-Ray, Trivy, Checkov, OPA
- Languages & Scripting: Python, Bash, TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, HCL, SQL, YAML
Cloud Engineering Projects
Extended Cloud Resume Challenge (AWS) — 2025
- Deployed a static portfolio site on S3 with CloudFront CDN, custom domain, and ACM TLS.
- Built a serverless visitor counter with API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, Streams, and WebSockets.
- Provisioned infrastructure with reusable Terraform modules and GitHub Actions automation.
- Added supply-chain controls including Trivy scanning, image signing, and SBOM generation.
Cloud Platform Showcase — Three-Tier Application on AWS — 2025
- Architected a three-tier EKS application with ALB ingress, private subnets, and least-privilege IAM.
- Implemented GitOps delivery with Argo CD, observability dashboards, and policy validation.
- Documented cost-aware design choices including Spot capacity, autoscaling, and budget alerts.
Mini Search Engine on AWS — 2025 — In Progress
- Designing a portfolio-scale search platform with OpenSearch, Lambda, API Gateway, and Step Functions.
- Demonstrates VPC depth, event-driven orchestration, caching, and cost-discipline teardown planning.
Professional Experience
Independent Cloud & QA Automation Engineer — Portfolio Projects
Remote · 2025 – Present
- Designed and documented portfolio projects covering IaC, CI/CD, Kubernetes, observability, and cost optimization on AWS.
- Built multi-framework QA automation with CI/CD parity across GitHub Actions and Jenkins.
- Produced architecture diagrams and operational runbooks to support reproducibility and fast review.
Founder — Marketing Operations & Automation
Cloak Marketing · Port Stanley, ON · 2014 – 2024
- Built automation pipelines across advertising, CRM, and analytics platforms with heavy scripting and API integration.
- Designed instrumentation and QA processes that reduced reporting errors and improved decision speed.
- Managed hosting, DNS, CDN, email systems, budgets, and vendors with an operations-first mindset.
Education
Computer Engineering (BASc program) — 2004 – 2007
University of Waterloo · Waterloo, ON
Relevant coursework: Data Structures & Algorithms, Optimization, Computer Architecture, Networking Fundamentals.
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