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Finighang Michael

Summary

Proven DevOps/Platform Engineer with a track record of enhancing platform performance at ParadigmIT Solutions through infrastructure optimization and automation. Expert in Cloud Infrastructure Management and adept at fostering collaboration. Significantly improved code quality and system flexibility by implementing microservices architecture and leading code reviews.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience

Work History

DevOps/Platform Engineer

ParadigmIT Solutions
01.2024 - Current
  • Enhanced platform performance by optimizing infrastructure and implementing automation tools.
  • Championed best practices in code quality through code reviews, refactoring initiatives, and documentation efforts.
  • Addressed performance bottlenecks by conducting thorough profiling and analysis of system components.
  • Contributed to the development of microservices architecture for enhanced modularity and flexibility.
  • Architected and orchestrated the build, deploy , test and report management using jerkins CI/CD
  • Deploy IaaS and PaaS infrastructure in AWS/AZURE with Terraform and Ansible
  • Collaborate with other stakeholders to ensure high-quality product development and deployment
  • Migrating on-premises applications into the cloud while maintaining cloud governance
  • Improving the delivery of microservices with container-based CI/CD pipeline (Amazon ECS ,EC2 ,Docker , Kubernetes)
  • Define and implement incident response management process, fix support and escalation issues, conduct post-incident reviews

Cloud/Platform Engineer

MTN Cameroon
01.2019 - 01.2023
  • As a fresher, i was introduced to the world of servlets, microservices, REST API, MAVEN, Jenkins , Linux and SDLC process
  • Gained a good understanding of Telecommunication and internet provider sector domain
  • Learnt SDLC of an enterprise application .Understood how an enterprise application is designed , deployed for testing ,tested and moved to production
  • Learnt the process of change management and incident management.
  • Enhanced platform performance by optimizing
  • infrastructure and implementing automation tools.
  • Worked with Amazon Web Service resources like EC2, VPC, S3, IAM , ELB , RDS , Route 53 , Auto Scaling and Cloud Watch
  • Utilized Cloud watch to monitor resources such as EC2 CPU memory , Amazon RDS DB services , EBS volumes : to set alarms for notification or automated actions and to monitor logs for a better understanding anf operation of the system
  • Addressed performance bottlenecks by conducting thorough profiling and analysis of system components.
  • Championed best practices in code quality through code reviews, refactoring initiatives, and documentation efforts.
  • Evaluated new technologies for potential adoption into the platform ecosystem, ensuring a cutting-edge tech stack.
  • Managed hundreds of enterprise archives and streamlined the process of their deployment in web-sphere .Application using jenkins CI/CD

Education

Bachelor of Science - Physics

University of Dschang
Cameroon
09.2015

Bachelor of Science - Physics Teacher Education

University of Bamenda
Cameroon
10.2014

Skills

Linux ,shell scripting , Ansible and Terraform

Distributed version control with Git/GitHub, CodeCommit

CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins , CodeBuild, CodeDeploy , CodePipeline

Containerization with Docker ,

Container orchestration with Kubernetes, KOPs ,EKS, ECS

AWS and Azure

Python ,groovy ,AWS CLI

Monitoring with Grafana , prometheus ,CloudWatch alarms , Azure monitor , Azure application insights

Timeline

DevOps/Platform Engineer

ParadigmIT Solutions
01.2024 - Current

Cloud/Platform Engineer

MTN Cameroon
01.2019 - 01.2023

Bachelor of Science - Physics

University of Dschang

Bachelor of Science - Physics Teacher Education

University of Bamenda
Finighang Michael