DANIEL ETOUKE
New York,NY
Summary
Accomplished engineer proffering extensive cloud monitoring, deployment and troubleshooting skills. Defined, built and maintained infrastructure using vendor-neutral and platform-specific tools. Organized and focused person with extraordinary leadership acumen.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
10
10
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certificates
2
2
Languages
Work History
Linux/Cloud DevOps Engineer
Democracy Prep
New York, NY
12.2021 - Current
- Used metrics to monitor application and infrastructure performance.
- Reviewed existing systems and made recommendations for improvements.
- Identified, analyzed and resolved infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues.
- Worked with teams of talented software engineers to define, build and maintain cloud infrastructure.
- Utilized code and modern cloud-native deployment techniques to design, plan and integrate cloud computing and virtualization systems.
- Partnered with infrastructure teams on evaluation and feasibility assessments of new systems and technologies.
- Worked with cloud architect to generate assessments and develop and implement actionable recommendations based on results and reviews.
- Understood client needs and objectives by conducting proactive customer and data analysis.
- Provided technical leadership and delivered innovative products and services to address customer specific requirements.
- Contributed ideas and suggestions in team meetings and delivered updates on deadlines, designs and enhancements.
- Identified gaps in market to spot opportunities to create value propositions.
- Designed, developed, modified and debugged programs.
- Tested and deployed scalable and highly available software products.
- Coordinated deployments of new software, feature updates and fixes.
- Tested troubleshooting methods and documented resolutions for inclusion in knowledge base for support team use.
- Documented software development methodologies in technical manuals to be used by IT personnel in future projects.
- Built databases and table structures for web applications.
- Designed and developed analytical data structures.
- Designed and implemented scalable applications for data extraction and analysis.
- Authored code fixes and enhancements for inclusion in future code releases and patches.
- Corrected, modified and upgraded software to improve performance.
- Conducted data modeling, performance and integration testing.
- Supervised work of programmers, designers and technicians, assigned tasks and monitored performance against targets.
- Tuned systems to boost performance.
- Translated technical concepts and information into terms parties could easily comprehend.
- Handled 22+ calls per day to address customer inquiries and concerns
Unix System Administrator
Panda Express
Frederick, Maryland
07.2019 - 11.2021
- Installed and configured Rhel7/8/CentOS7/8 OS on large data centers
- Support for all Linux servers physical and virtual running on
- VMware ESXi5.5
- Oversee IT infrastructure and respond to urgent technical issues
- Document technical incident/request specifics in incident management system
- Resolved and escalated technical network/servers incidents using experience, available documentation, and tools
- Lead technician in charge of upgrade from red hat version 6.1 to version 7.5 across 200+ servers
- Support for all routers ADTRAN / cisco / Linux
- Support and creation of virtual machines on VMware ESXi5.5
- Monitoring of dell San and QLogic San
- Patched OS, applied updates to software’s and user accounts
System Administrator & Computer Science Director
GBHS
Kompina, Cameroon
09.2009 - 05.2019
- Installed, maintained, and applied updates on CentOS6/Rhel6 in
- VMware environment
- Managed and updated 4000 user accounts on organization VMs network system
- Monitored system performance and network communication
- Installed new software releases and system upgrades, evaluated, and installed patches, and resolved software related issues in VMware
- Defined security policies for password and software installation
- Setup RDS (MySQL, MariaDB) to keep track of user’s performances
- Acted in troubleshooting advanced network system issues; consistently earned 100% issue-resolution score by providing best quality services to internal and external clients
- Analyzed and resolved problems associated with operating systems and servers, hardware, applications, and software
- Provided remote and on-premises technical assistance for questions
Education
Associate of Applied Science - Cybersecurity
Frederick Community College
Frederick, MD 09.2019 - 05.2021
Master of Science - Mathematics
University of Bamenda
Bamenda, Cameroon 08.2013 - 07.2015
Bachelor of Science - Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Buea
Buea, Cameroon 01.2003 - 12.2008
Skills
Industry engineering standards
Web-based software engineering
JBoss
Network security
Cloud services
Storage virtualization
Switches and routers
TCP/IP protocol
Firewalls, VPNs and security products
Scripting skills: Bash, Python
Active Listening
Teambuilding
Maintenance and Repair
Technical Analysis
Certification
Certified [Developper Associate], [AWS] - [08/31/2022 - 08/31/2025] Validation Number: VMY2Z5TCS1F1QBS7 at https://aws.amazon.com/verification
Hobbies
Love Chess and Golf
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Quote
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Marilynne Robinson
Timeline
Linux/Cloud DevOps Engineer
Democracy Prep
12.2021 - Current
Associate of Applied Science - Cybersecurity
Frederick Community College
09.2019 - 05.2021
Unix System Administrator
Panda Express
07.2019 - 11.2021
Master of Science - Mathematics
University of Bamenda
08.2013 - 07.2015
System Administrator & Computer Science Director
GBHS
09.2009 - 05.2019
Bachelor of Science - Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Buea
01.2003 - 12.2008