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Education
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SELECTED PROJECTS
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Gilbert Acheampong

Norfolk,VA

Summary

I am a Cloud DevOps Engineer with 7+ years of experience in the IT Service industry. Driven by a purpose-filled passion to continuously leverage the power of information technologies for the highest business and technological performance.

I work with Bash, Python, Git/GitHub, Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, SonarQube, Nexus, Docker, Helm, Kubernetes, Argo CD, Datadog, PagerDuty, as well as Multicloud platforms including AWS, GCP & Azure DevOps.

I have strong interpersonal skills, team-work attitude, takes initiative and very proactive in solving problems. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

DevOps/Cloud Engineer

EK Tech Software Solutions
Houston, TX
11.2022 - Current
  • Creating modularized infrastructure with Terraform and customizing AMIs using Packer.
  • Troubleshooting emergent issues encountered on CI/CD pipelines to ensure on-time product delivery.
  • Migrating client's on-premise-based applications to the Cloud.
  • Automating deployments of Helm charts into the K8s clusters with ArgoCD using the AutoSync option.
  • Utilizing Python to handle debugging and automation scripting tasks.
  • Extensively working with Docker images like creating images from Dockerfiles and containers.
  • Creating Docker volumes to provide high availability of data even if the Docker container goes down.
  • Knowledge of Agile methodology for project management and product continuous delivery.
  • Communicating with clients to understand system requirements.

DevOps Engineer

The Cloudticians Inc
Upper Marlboro, MD
12.2019 - 01.2023
  • Automated application build and deployment, driving efficiency of code development process.
  • Built and maintained CI/CD pipeline for code deployment using GitHub, Jenkins, Maven, Ansible, and/or Docker Swarm, Kubernetes
  • Integrated systems with third-party applications to enable visualization, integration or analytics by end users.
  • Implemented and configured security services to properly harden infrastructure.
  • Scheduled ongoing performance quality assurance checks for software applications and automated performance test scripts.
  • Delivered software solutions consistent with product roadmap and meeting release plan milestones.
  • Assisted development team with creating and rolling out timely solutions.

Systems Support Engineer

UTEP Mathematical Sciences Department
El Paso, TX
08.2018 - 07.2020
  • Prepared and scheduled computer setup, repair, configuration changes and replacement.
  • Monitored Linux server for CPU, Memory, and Disk utilization for performance monitoring.
  • Collected system information to aid in troubleshooting, document resources, monitor for any behavior modifications & intrusion, configured system to send log messages to system centralized host.
  • Documented repair processes and helped streamline procedures for future technical support actions.
  • Conducted routine maintenance on servers and systems, keeping networks fully operational during peak periods.

Linux System Support Administrator

Meagasa Mathematics Academy
Accra, Ghana
04.2014 - 07.2016
  • Performed the installation, configuration, administration, and maintenance of Linux servers.
  • Performed data backups and disaster recovery operations.
  • Performed supportive administrative tasks by creating and managing users account, file permissions and password resetting.
  • Monitored system performance and assistance in implementing performance tuning.
  • Performed automation solution leveraging shell to increase operational efficiency.

Education

Ph.D - Computational and Applied Mathematics

Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA
12.2024

Master's Degree - Mathematics

The University of Texas At El Paso
El Paso, TX
07.2020

Master's Degree - Mathematical Sciences

African Institute For Mathematical Science
AIMS-TZ
07.2017

Bachelor's Degree - Mathematical Sciences

University For Development Studies
Ghana
07.2013

Skills

  • Platform: Linux - CentOS and Ubuntu
  • Scripting: Bash, Python
  • Cloud: AWS, GCP, Azure DevOps
  • Version Control: Git/Github, Bitbucket
  • Containerization: Docker
  • IaC & Configuration management tool: Terraform, Packer, Terragrunt, Ansible
  • Container Orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Google Cloud Run, GKE, AWS ECS, AWS EKS
  • CI/CD & Monitoring: Jenkins, Nexus, SonarQube, Docker hub, Kubernetes, Helm, Datadog, Argo CD, PagerDuty
  • Project management & communication: Jira, Confluence, Slack

Accomplishments

  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (AWS-CSAA)
  • AWS Certified Developer - Associate (AWS-DVA)
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (AWS-CCP)

Additional Information

  • Cloud Computing Security - CISA
  • Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service - ReleaseWorks
  • Amazon Elastic Container Service - KodeKloud
  • DevOps MasterClass - ReleaseWorks
  • Chaos Engineering Practitioner - Harness University

SELECTED PROJECTS

  • Migrating an Application and Database of a Luxury Hotel Company to the Cloud https://medium.com/@adgilbert_51390/migrating-an-application-and-data-of-a-luxury-hotel-to-the-cloud- 8bb6cf21696b
  • Deploying an Application in EKS behind ELB, sending logs to ElasticSearch cluster and Continuous Integration with Jenkins https://github.com/gache001/cyd-project
  • Deploying a Containerized Python Application on Google Cloud via Cloud Run https://medium.com/@adgilbert_51390/deploying-a-containerized-python-application-on-google-cloud- f1d024969708
  • A Kubernetes Application involving a Web Application & its Database https://github.com/gache001/Kubernetes-mongoExpress-MongoDB-Deploy
  • Some Terraform Works: From a custom EC2 with dynamic blocks for the SG all the way up to modules and data- sources https://github.com/gache001/TerraformWorks
  • A Devops project involving Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Docker & Docker Swarm https://github.com/gache001/Devops-project/tree/master/devops-training-project-master

Timeline

DevOps/Cloud Engineer

EK Tech Software Solutions
11.2022 - Current

DevOps Engineer

The Cloudticians Inc
12.2019 - 01.2023

Systems Support Engineer

UTEP Mathematical Sciences Department
08.2018 - 07.2020

Linux System Support Administrator

Meagasa Mathematics Academy
04.2014 - 07.2016

Ph.D - Computational and Applied Mathematics

Old Dominion University

Master's Degree - Mathematics

The University of Texas At El Paso

Master's Degree - Mathematical Sciences

African Institute For Mathematical Science

Bachelor's Degree - Mathematical Sciences

University For Development Studies

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