About

I bring a broad and well-rounded foundation in cloud computing, with expertise spanning cloud architecture, infrastructure, networking, storage, database services, security, cloud operations, and serverless computing. My technical capabilities are reinforced by practical experience implementing AWS solutions with Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, AWS Lambda, Amazon RDS, and Amazon VPC, enabling me to design secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud environments.

I design, deploy, and manage secure and scalable cloud environments guided by AWS best practices.

Experience

Focus areas

Cloud Architecture

Designing scalable, secure AWS environments guided by well-architected principles.

Serverless Delivery

Building event-driven apps with Lambda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB.

Systems Management

Prior background maintaining IBM x-Series server fleets with monitoring and remote administration.

Security

Applying least-privilege access, encryption, and compliance-aligned controls.

Technical

Skills stack

Cloud

  • AWS Architecture
  • Deployment Models
  • Service Models

Storage

  • Amazon S3
  • EBS
  • Glacier

Compute

  • EC2
  • Lambda
  • Elastic Beanstalk

Networking

  • VPC
  • Subnets
  • Routing
  • Security Groups

Databases

  • RDS
  • DynamoDB
  • Aurora

Cloud Ops

  • CloudWatch
  • CloudFormation
  • Automation

Security

  • IAM
  • Encryption
  • Compliance

Serverless

  • Lambda
  • API Gateway
  • DynamoDB
Awards

Certifications & recognition

AWS Educate Badges

  • Cloud 101
  • Storage
  • Compute
  • Networking
  • Databases
  • Cloud Ops
  • Security
  • Serverless

Certified IBM x-Series Server Specialist

2004

Deployed and maintained 15 IBM x-Series servers with remote administration tooling, reducing downtime by up to 75% through timely fault rectification. Working knowledge of Windows Server, Linux, Blade-Center technology, and OSI-layer networking.

Bug Bounty Hunter

2 yrs

Two years of experience finding vulnerabilities in web applications.

Management Experience

Advanced

Many years of formal management experience as workshop and technical manager across multiple institutions.

Projects

Selected work

01

Static Website Hosting on AWS

Objective. Host a static website by integrating a third-party domain with Route 53 and serving content from Amazon S3.

  • Integrated a third-party domain with Route 53 for global DNS resolution.
  • Hosted the site on S3 with tuned bucket policies for secure, scalable delivery.
  • Configured A and CNAME records to point the domain at the S3 bucket.
  • Amazon S3
  • Route 53

Outcome. Launched a functional, secure, and scalable static site.

02

Web Server with Application Load Balancer

Objective. Deliver a highly available, scalable, and secure hosting solution for web applications on AWS.

  • Distributed traffic across multiple EC2 instances behind an ALB for fault tolerance.
  • Configured target groups with health checks for reliable routing.
  • Isolated the workload using VPC design and security-group best practices.
  • EC2
  • ALB
  • Target Groups
  • Linux

Outcome. Improved performance, optimized cost, and better user experience.

03

AWS Cloud Resume Challenge

Objective. Portfolio build covering web hosting, serverless compute, CI/CD, and cloud security end-to-end.

  • Static site on S3 fronted by CloudFront for global CDN delivery.
  • Serverless visitor counter via Lambda and API Gateway.
  • DynamoDB as the low-latency NoSQL store for counter state.
  • CodePipeline for automated CI/CD and IAM for least-privilege access.
  • S3
  • CloudFront
  • Route 53
  • Lambda
  • API Gateway
  • DynamoDB
  • IAM
  • ACM
  • CloudFormation
  • CodePipeline

Outcome. Hands-on reinforcement across core AWS cloud architecture.

Education

Academic background

Computer Science

1984 – 1988

Central State University, Edmond, Oklahoma

Electronics & Telecommunications

1980 – 1982

Technical University of Kenya (formerly The Kenya Polytechnic)