Emmanuel Maduforo
Houston,Texas
Summary
Highly-motivated Devops/Cloud engineer with desire to take on new challenges. Strong work ethic, adaptability and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
DevOps Engineer
Aplos
Houston, Texas
01.2023 - Current
- Lead the effort in adapting best practices in continuous integration/delivery throughout the company
- Integrated Istio configurations into CI/CD pipelines, automating the deployment and update processes for microservices and service mesh configurations
- Collaborated effectively with development, operations, and security teams to ensure smooth deployment, operation, and security of microservices with Istio
- Designed and implemented reusable software delivery pipelines according to best practices, streamlining development
- Deployed AWS CloudWatch and Datadog to monitor infrastructure and applications, achieving 90% uptime and optimizing system performance
- Collaborate with development teams to design, build, and maintain applications and APIs following DevOps principles
- Implement and manage cloud infrastructure automation, deployment, and orchestration tools to streamline development and operations processes, increasing deployment frequency by 70%
- Participated in on-call rotation, achieving 99.5% incident response within SLA and reducing downtime of internal resources
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams, assisting in troubleshooting complex issues and ensuring adherence to architectural principles.
- Combined root-level authentication and authorization technologies with ongoing system design to harden finished solutions.
- Analyzed data to identify trends in production and maintenance costs and developed strategies to reduce expenses
- Staying up to date with industry trends, emerging technologies, and Devops best practices
- Provide mentorship and guidance to other team members, fostering a culture of learning and collaboration.
- Configured, managed, and monitored cloud-based services such as AWS EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, RDS using Terraform and Ansible.
DevOps Engineer
MIAC Analytics
Houston, Texas
02.2020 - 01.2023
- Built cloud-native frameworks for release management, Logging, monitoring, alerting and escalation tooling pipeline
- Deployed Istio to manage microservices communication, enhance security, and, improve observability
- Evangelize high engineering standards and best practices across multiple environments increasing cloud awareness by 40%
- Developed and maintained scripts to automate common tasks and improve system efficiency by 25%
- Managed 100% of existing AWS Cloud environments, automation, monitoring metrics, disaster recovery/backups, and capacity planning
- Improved 6+ processes for deploying new features and functionality to market by connecting the pieces to create continuous integration-style workflows
- Monitored the performance of 5+ systems in a cloud-based computing environment, including overall system health, reliability, performance, and cost
- Collaborated with 20+ software engineers and system architects to provide an operations perspective, ensuring issues like cost, scalability, and maintainability were considered
- Tested software for bugs and operating speed, fixing bugs and documenting processes to increase efficiency by 18%
- Reduced manual effort and increased data processing speed by automating ETL workflows with Glue jobs.
- Developed automated deployment processes and scripts to ensure a smooth transition from development to production.
- Deployed microservices on Kubernetes clusters in order to increase scalability and availability of services across multiple regions.
AWS Solutions Architect
Nordstrom
Houston, Texas
01.2017 - 11.2019
- Worked with stakeholders to understand their business requirements and translate them into technical solutions
- Developed and maintain a holistic view of the organization's technology architecture, ensuring that it aligns with the overall business strategy
- Worked closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, system administrators, and support teams, to achieve project goals and resolve issues following best practices
- Recommended new and emerging technologies and assess their potential impact on the organization's existing architecture
- Led the development of proof-of-concepts (POCs) to demonstrate the feasibility of new technologies Partnered with external clients to understand needs and demo solutions.
- Developed and implemented cloud migration strategy for transitioning existing workloads to AWS.
- Designed fault-tolerant architectures utilizing multiple Availability Zones in order to ensure high availability of applications.
- Deployed serverless architecture using Lambda functions for cost efficient operations in the cloud environment.
Data Entry Professional
Keystone Bank
Houston, Texas
12.2015 - 11.2016
- Assisted in organizing and maintaining physical and electronic records for efficient data retrieval
- Collaborated with team members to meet strict deadlines and support various departments' data needs
- Complied with data security and confidentiality policies to protect sensitive customer information
- Compiled statistical information for monthly reports and closed terminated records in 5days
- Processed spreadsheets and reporting, increasing efficiency and saving the bank $6K in monthly labor costs in 2019
- Processed over 3,000 customer orders per month, including payment logs and refunds
- Acted as the face of the company to customers, providing exceptional service and exceeding customer satisfaction targets by 19%.
Education
Master of Arts, International Relations & Affairs -
University of Ibadan
Skills
- Cloud Orchestration/Automation - AWS CloudFormation, AWS Systems Manager, AWS SSM, Elastic Beanstalk, Ansible, Chef Infrastructure as Code - Terraform (Terraform Enterprise) and CloudFormation
- Containerization – Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, AWS EKS
- AWS Security - AWS Guard Duty, AWS Shield, AWS Inspector, Amazon Macie, Security Groups, NACLs, AWS KMS
- Monitoring - AWS CloudWatch (Events & Logs), AWS SNS, AWS Cloud Trail, SQS, Datadog, Prometheus and Grafana
- Identity & Access Management - AWS IAM, Active Directory, AWS Workspaces, AWS Secrets Manager, AWS SSO, Cognito Governance & Compliance - AWS Config Rules, AWS Organization, AWS Control Tower, Trusted Advisor, AWS Budgets, AWS Certificate Manager
- Programming Languages - Bash, Python, JavaScript
- Application Delivery - Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, AWS Code Pipeline, AWS Code Deploy, AWS Code Build AWS Code Commit, GitHub, Bitbucket, Gitlab, GitHub Actions, Gitops/Argo CD
- Data Management and Protection - AWS Certificate Manager, AWS KMS, EBS volume, Snapshots, LifecyleManager, Elasticco, PersistentVolumeClaim, AWS Glue, Data Lake, AWS Glue catalog, ETL
- Network - VPC, TGW, VPC Peering, IGW, VPC Endpoint, VPN, Direct Connect, DNS, Load Balancer, AWS Global Accelerator, NAT Gateway, EIP, Peering Connection
- Serverless - AWS Lambda, API-Gateway, AWS Dynamo db, AWS Aurora, AWS EventBridge, AWS Kinesis, Step Functions
- Code and Quality Standards
- Analytical Thinking and Problem Solving
- Teamwork and Collaboration
- iOS Application Development
- Task Prioritization
- Software Testing and Validation
- Requirements Gathering
- SOAP and RESTful Web Services
Websites
Certification
- AWS Solutions Architect – Professional
- Certified Kubernetes Admin - CKA
Work Availability
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Quote
There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.
Tony Robbins
Timeline
DevOps Engineer
Aplos
01.2023 - Current
DevOps Engineer
MIAC Analytics
02.2020 - 01.2023
AWS Solutions Architect
Nordstrom
01.2017 - 11.2019
Data Entry Professional
Keystone Bank
12.2015 - 11.2016
Master of Arts, International Relations & Affairs -
University of Ibadan
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