Cloud Platforms
AWS: EC2, EKS, ECS, Fargate, Lambda, VPC, S3, RDS, IAM, CloudWatch, ALB and NLB, Auto Scaling, Service Catalog.
06 · Expertise and capability
What he brings into the room
Fifteen years across cloud platforms, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code and reliability practice, applied to payment systems that cannot go down.
Containers and Orchestration
Kubernetes (administration, workloads, scheduling, networking, RBAC), Docker, Helm, Amazon EKS and ECS.
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Ansible, reusable templates and modules.
CI/CD and GitOps
Jenkins (declarative Groovy pipelines), GitLab CI, Argo CD, JFrog Artifactory, SonarQube quality gates, vulnerability scanning.
Observability
Dynatrace, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch; SLIs and SLOs, alerting and runbooks.
Reliability Practices
Incident management, war room leadership, root cause analysis, postmortems, high availability, disaster recovery.
Languages and Systems
Python, Bash, Groovy, Linux troubleshooting, network troubleshooting (L2 and L3).
Leadership
Technical mentoring, offshore to onshore handover design, knowledge base and runbook creation.
200+
Payment services sustained at 99.98% uptime across the Western Union platform.
Certifications
Verified credentials
Verified digital credentials issued through Credly.
The Linux Foundation
CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator
Validates hands on ability to install, configure and manage production grade Kubernetes clusters.
The Linux Foundation
CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
Demonstrates the skills to define application resources and use core primitives to build, monitor and troubleshoot scalable applications in Kubernetes.
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified Developer Associate
Validates proficiency in developing, deploying and debugging cloud based applications on AWS.
HashiCorp
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003)
Validates knowledge of the basic concepts, skills and use cases of open source HashiCorp Terraform and the practice of infrastructure as code.