kaoka kelvin, AWS Cloud | DevOps | AWS-re/Start Graduate | 2X AWS

About

A highly self motivated individual, with over one year experience in AWS cloud and Dev Ops engineering. I build highly resilient, available, secure and cost optimized solutions on AWS cloud. Technology stack around CICD pipelines, Jenkins, Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker & Terraform.

Experience

Freelancer

Jan 2022 – Present

Nairobi, Kenya

AWS Cloud and DevOps Consultant

- Reducing deployment time by over 90% by building robust and automated CI/CD pipelines, orchestrating highly scalable and available container deployments on AWS utilizing Elastic Beanstalk, EKS, ECS and Fargate. - Working with clients and coming up with optimal technical solutions that solve 100% of their problems, using AWS Cloud solutions like IAM, VPC, Elastic Beanstalk, RDS, DynamoDB, EBS, EFS, S3 and CloudFront.

Azubi Africa

Jan 2022 – Apr 2022

Nairobi, Kenya

AWS Solutions Architect Apprentice

- Designing networking on AWS VPC and its associated subnets, route tables, NACLs and gateways. - Ensuring high availability by using multi-AZ deployments for compute and databases. - Designing for load balancing using load balancers and route 53 routing policies. - Implementing cloud and hybrid storage and migration solutions using Storage Gateways, EFS, S3 and Datasync. - Multi layered security on AWS VPC using security groups, ACLs and Transit Gateways and security services such as WAF, Shield, GuardDuty and Inspector. - AWS security using IAM roles and policies (both resource and identity based). - Database design using RDS (MySQL and Postgres) and Aurora. - Designing serverless applications with Lambda functions and API Gateway. - Using big data applications using ELK, Redshift, Kinesis, Luster and Athena. - Monitoring and compliance using CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Config and Trusted Advisor. - Improved inter-person skills significantly by working hand in hand with Cloud and DevOps engineers and gained a solid experience in infrastructure provisioning based on customer needs.

Kenya National Library Service (knls)

Jan 2022 – Apr 2022

Nairobi, Kenya

IT Support Intern

- Came up with a 100% cost savings solution to find unutilized internal Voice Over IP (VOIP) addresses, fully utilizing the existing license, therefore removing the need to acquire a higher IP capacity license. - Provided L2 technical support by troubleshooting and solving over 250 IT issues: enterprise network outages(DNS, HTTP(s), TCP), security, VOIP IP mix-ups and private cloud operations, reducing interruptions by over 70% in the day-to-day operations in the work environment.

Education

The Technical University of Kenya

Sep 2017 – Sep 2022

Communication and computer network , Networking and security

kaoka kelvin

AWS Cloud | DevOps | AWS-re/Start Graduate | 2X AWS

Skills