Henok Lapiso
Rockville,MD
Summary
Highly motivated and results driven certified AWS Solutions Architect with over 10 years of professional experience implementing and maintaining IT infrastructure, database management and integrating it into Amazon web Services Cloud solutions in large and medium sized enterprise environment
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
AWS Cloud Solution Architect
General Dynamics
09.2019 - Current
- Designed for high availability and business continuity using self-healing-based architectures, fail-over routing policies, multi-AZ deployment of EC2 instances, ELB health checks, Auto Scaling, and other disaster recovery models.
- Configured and provisioned micro-services and instances on both Azure and AWS Cloud Platform using Azure Container Instance and AWS ECS
- Implemented IAM to manage users, groups, roles, policies and ensure compliance with best practices.
- Implemented various security best practices including MFA, access key rotation, Security Groups and NACLs, S3 bucket policies, ACLs and Encryption.
- Proactively monitored resources and applications using AWS CloudWatch including creating alarms to monitor metrics for services like EBS, EC2, ELB, RDS, S3
- Provisioned cloud networking architectures in a DEV/PROD environment, utilizing , VPC Virtual Networks, VPN, Express Route/Direct Connect, Network Security Groups, and Load Balancers.
- Managed Microservices using Docker to quickly spin up into reproducible development environment and scaling them and orchestration using Amazon EC2 container service (ECS) and deploy it to an Amazon EC2 instance
- Troubleshot technical issues related to AWS services, providing swift resolutions that minimized downtime or impact on end users.
- Consulted and advised engineers, architects and executives, help define the right choice of technology stack, serve as a leading technical expert on Data
- Implemented CI/CD, automation, infrastructure as a code, configuration management, monitoring and tools development for customer’s enterprise software and systems running in data centers.
- Utilized AWS CLI for Setting up scalability for application servers for Setting up and administering DNS system in AWS using Route53 Managing users and groups using the amazon identity and access management (IAM)
- Analyzed code and communicate detailed reviews to development teams to ensure a marked improvement in applications and the timely completion of projects
- Wrote CloudFormation Templates (CFT) in JSON and YAML format to build the AWS services with the paradigm of Infrastructure as a Code
- Created custom IAM policies, Roles, and user management for delegated users within AWS specified region.
- Utilized code and modern cloud-native deployment techniques to design, plan and integrate cloud computing and virtualization systems.
- Developed proof-of-concept implementations showcasing the benefits of adopting specific AWS services or architectural patterns before full-scale adoption within an organization''s infrastructure landscape.
- Implemented cost optimization strategies through resource allocation adjustments and reserved instance purchases.Led teams to architect, design, develop and implement Cloud solutions Amazon Web Services encompassing multiple specializations, platforms, and technologies.
AWS Cloud Engineer
Bigbear.Ai
11.2014 - 08.2018
- Built and maintained technical trusted advisor relationships with all levels from technical experts to senior executives.
- Conducted design and code reviews, including code sampling design reviews, code profiling, and memory utilization review.
- Implemented business continuity/disaster recovery, runbook documentation, identifying the top cloud architecture solutions to successfully meet the strategic needs of the company
- Provisioned cloud networking architectures in a Dev& Test environment, utilizing Virtual Networks, VPN, Express Route/Direct Connect, Network Security Groups, Load Balancers.
- Utilized Terraform for managing the infrastructure through the terminal sessions and executed scripts in creating alarms and notifications for EC2 instances using AWS Cloud Watch
- Performed security monitoring, security event triage, and incident response; coordinate with other team members and management to document and report incidents
- Enabled Cloud Trail across all geographic regions and AWS services to prevent activity monitoring gaps
- Enabled access logging for Cloud Trail S3 bucket so that you can track access requests and identify potentially unauthorized or unwarranted access attempts
- Converted existing Terraform modules that had version conflicts to utilize Cloud formation templates during deployments, worked with Terraform to create stacks in AWS, and updated the Terraform scripts based on the requirement on regular basis
- Built a new CI pipeline, Tested and deployed automation with Docker, Jenkins and Ansible.
- Integrated SonarQube in the CI pipeline to analyze code quality and obtain combined code coverage reports after performing static and dynamic analysis.
- Utilized Terraform for managing the infrastructure through the terminal sessions and executed scripts in creating alarms and notifications for EC2 instances using AWS Cloud Watch
- Designed, deployed, managed and operating scalable, highly available, and fault tolerance system on AWS
- Implemented containerization strategy using tools like Docker and Kubernetes
Database Engineer
Humana Inc.
05.2012 - 10.2014
- Performed routing database migrations to support database refreshes from production to staging environment
- Developed and maintained data access strategy for applications and internal teams to ensure optimal performance.
- Supported windows environments using Power shell and worked with developers to build long term solutions and tools at large
- Automated daily database refreshes from production to staging and on-demand refreshes from production environment to test environment.
- Automated daily backup/restore processes as well as implemented batch jobs to automate DBA maintenance tasks
- Setup automation with SQL Agent and Database Mail for Maintenance, error alerting and job failures
- Installed Service Pack and Hot fix and security patches on network computers and performed full backup, Transactional log backup, Differential backup, and restore them if needed
- Provisioned MySQL to perform basic database administration.
- Created and implemented database designs and data models.
- Planned and implemented security measures to safeguard vital business data.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of Maryland - College Park
College Park, MD07.2014
Bachelor of Arts - Financial And Development Economics
Addis Ababa University School of Commerce
Overseas06.2009
Skills
- Compute: EC2, Lambda, Lightsail, Elastic Beanstalk
- Networking: VPC,VPC Peering, Subnets, Route 53
- SQS, SNS, SES, S3, SnowMobile, EBS, EFS
- Identity & Access Management: AWS IAM, AWS Secrets Manager,
- Databases: Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Aroura
- DevOps: Lambda, Docker, GitHub, CI/CD, Amazon CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy
- CloudWatch , CloudFront, CloudTrail, CloudFormation
- Coding: Javascript, nodejs, Pyhton, C, C, Bash, Powershell
- Docker, Docker-Compose , Chef, Puppet
Certification
- AWS Certified Cloud Solutions Architect Associate
- AWS Certified Developer
- AWS Certified Cloud Professional
- Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS)
- Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
Timeline
AWS Cloud Solution Architect
General Dynamics
09.2019 - Current
AWS Cloud Engineer
Bigbear.Ai
11.2014 - 08.2018
Database Engineer
Humana Inc.
05.2012 - 10.2014
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of Maryland - College Park
Bachelor of Arts - Financial And Development Economics
Addis Ababa University School of Commerce
- AWS Certified Cloud Solutions Architect Associate
- AWS Certified Developer
- AWS Certified Cloud Professional
- Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS)
- Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
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