Caleb Mathews

Hands-on experience in multiple DevOps tools and methodologies, I am eager to apply my skills in Python, Linux, AWS, Docker, Jenkins, Ansible, Grafana, Prometheus, Kubernetes, and Terraform in a dynamic team environment. Passionate about automating workflows and optimizing system operations through innovative solutions. Smart DevOps Engineer with career spent in IT designing and planning. Talented leader with extensive knowledge of high availability architecture and concepts. Ready to tackle new challenges in project planning and development capacity.

Techtorial Capstone Project, DevOps Engineer, AWS Services (IAM, EC2, S3, Route 53, SNS, RDS, ECS), AWS CloudFormation, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Maven, Ansible, Git, JIRA., 08/2023, Current, Orchestrated an end-to-end DevOps initiative to automate cloud infrastructure and application deployment processes using AWS services, enhancing the overall CI/CD pipeline efficiency., Authored and deployed AWS CloudFormation templates for the creation and management of cloud resources, ensuring best practices for infrastructure as code., Configured IAM policies and roles for robust access control and security within the AWS ecosystem., Utilized AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, and Route 53 for a comprehensive cloud infrastructure setup., Developed and maintained a Jenkins-based CI/CD pipeline, facilitating automated builds, testing, and deployments., Integrated Maven for build automation and dependency management, coupled with Jenkins for seamless artifact deployment., Orchestrated multi-container Docker applications using Kubernetes on AWS ECS, optimizing container management and deployment processes., Employed AWS CloudWatch for monitoring infrastructure and application health, setting up alarms and notifications for proactive incident response., Implemented Ansible for automated configuration management, ensuring consistent environments across development, testing, and production., Used Docker and Kubernetes for maintaining and administration of Containers. Deploying Docker Images to AWS ECS by writing Task definitions., Managed code deployments and version control using Git, enhancing collaboration and trackability of changes., Developed Ansible playbooks to automate the post-provisioning steps, ensuring that all cloud resources were configured according to the specified requirements after being provisioned by Terraform., Successfully automated the deployment and scaling of web applications using AWS CloudFormation and ECS, resulting in a streamlined development lifecycle., Enhanced security and compliance by meticulously managing IAM roles and policies for all cloud-based resources., Achieved significant improvements in deployment frequency and reliability through the adoption of a robust CI/CD pipeline in Jenkins and containerization strategies., Centos, RedHat, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, ECS, JIRA. AWS Focused Project (Techtorial), 09/2023, 11/2023, Centered on AWS, this project involved constructing a highly available and scalable cloud infrastructure for a web application., Employed EC2 for hosting web servers with Elastic Load Balancing to distribute traffic evenly., Implemented S3 for optimized object storage solutions, hosting static web content., Managed relational databases using RDS, with read replicas for performance and failover clustering for high availability., Developed Terraform scripts to automate the provisioning of AWS resources., Utilized Terraform modules for reusability and maintained state files for infrastructure tracking., Set up Auto Scaling to adjust the number of EC2 instances dynamically based on traffic., Configured Elastic Load Balancer to distribute incoming application traffic across multiple EC2 instances., Configured IAM roles and policies for secure access management to AWS services., Implemented VPC settings including subnets, NAT gateways, and route tables for secure and efficient network architecture., Optimized resource usage and costs by employing AWS cost-saving practices such as reserved instances and S3 lifecycle policies.