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Melvin Sama Dingbobga

Huntsville,AL

Summary

Passionate DevOps Engineer with 1 year of hands-on experience in automating and optimizing mission-critical deployments in cloud environments. Proficient in CI/CD pipeline development, Infrastructure as Code (), and cloud services like AWS. Dedicated to bridging the gap between development and operations teams, ensuring seamless, reliable, and efficient software delivery. Always eager to learn and implement the latest DevOps best practices to drive operational excellence and innovation."

• Experienced in Jenkins by installing, configuring, and maintaining for purpose of continuous integration (CI) and for end-to-end automation for all build and deployments and creating Jenkins CI pipelines.

• Hands on experience with EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, ELB, EBS, Auto scaling.

• Experienced in branching, merging, and maintaining versions using SCM tools like Git and GitHub on Linux platform.

• Experienced in the creation of Docker containers and Docker consoles for managing the application life cycle.

• Creating custom Docker Images using Docker files for easier replication of DEV and QA Environments in local machines.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and can work either independently with little or no supervision or as a member of a team.

• Good written and verbal communication skills, strong organizational skills, and a hard-working team player, well-practiced in attending phone calls and answering business team queries.

Overview

2
2
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Associate Site Reliability Engineer

Amazon Fulfillment Center
03.2024 - Current
  • Implemented automated backup strategies for critical data, ensuring rapid recovery in case of emergencies or data loss incidents.
  • Participated in deploying and supporting applications on private and public cloud environments.
  • Ensured high availability of services through proactive maintenance, upgrades, and failover planning.
  • Reduced incident response time by automating common troubleshooting tasks and creating clear documentation.
  • Improved system reliability by implementing monitoring and alerting tools for critical infrastructure components.
  • Provided expert input on capacity planning, ensuring system resources were adequate to support expected traffic levels and usage patterns.

DevOps Intern

Simplilearn Americans Inc
12.2022 - 08.2024

• Building/maintaining CI/CD pipeline for code deployment using GitHub, Jenkins, Maven, Ansible and Kubernetes.

• Automation and smooth running of our CI/CD pipelines for continuous building, testing and deployments.

• Analyze new tools and update the current pipeline.• Production support, Kubernetes (Helm, Workloads, Storage, Networks etc)

• Deployed 12-microservice application

• Gits as VCS for all code modifications easily manageable and testable within one system.

• Building Docker containers, deployment was done by breaking up monolithic apps into microservices with the aim to improve the flow of work by developers for higher scalability at optimized speed.

• Automate code releases and deployments using configuration management tools.Leveraged Terraform as an IAC tool to provision AWS EC2, VPCs, and other required infrastructure resources. Created documentation that will be helpful in cloud infrastructure design solutions, such as AWS EC2, VPCs, CIDRs, subnets, etc., along with troubleshooting.

Education

Post Graduate Certificate - DevOps

California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA
08.2023

Bachelor of Science - Sociology

University of Buea
Cameroon
10.2011

Skills

  • Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure
  • Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes
  • Configuration Management: Ansible, Puppet, Chef
  • CI/CD Tools: Jenkins, GitLab CI
  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation
  • Scripting Languages: Python, Bash
  • Version Control: Git, GitHub
  • Monitoring Tools: Prometheus, AWS Cloud Watch
  • Networking: TCP/IP, DNS, Load Balancing
  • Operating Systems: Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS), Windows Server

Certification

  • Certificate in DevOps

Languages

English
Full Professional
French
Full Professional

Timeline

Associate Site Reliability Engineer

Amazon Fulfillment Center
03.2024 - Current

DevOps Intern

Simplilearn Americans Inc
12.2022 - 08.2024

Post Graduate Certificate - DevOps

California Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Science - Sociology

University of Buea
Melvin Sama Dingbobga