Nathan Tangufor
AWS Cloud Engineer
Aldie,VA
Summary
AWS certified detail-oriented Cloud Platform Engineer with over 7 years overall IT experience, committed to developing and improving cloud solutions for reliable enterprise applications.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
6
6
Certificates
Work History
Platform Engineer
24x7 Systems, Inc
Alpharetta, GA
04.2020 - Current
- Support AWS cloud migration of over 1,300 applications as part of a broad cloud modernization effort at CBP, leveraging the microservice architecture on the Kubernetes platform, with tools such as Istio, Traefik, Gloo, Helm, Prometheus Operator, Grafana, Dex
- Work with several application teams to provision highly scalable, secure, and fault-tolerant AWS infrastructure to support next-gen applications using Terraform Enterprise
- Revolutionize CI/CD process by adopting GitOps methodology in Kubernetes using ArgoCD to greatly optimize DevOps workflows
- Build robust Kubernetes monitoring solution with Prometheus and Grafana
- Create and maintain fully automated CI/CD pipelines on Jenkins, incorporating groovy shared libraries and templates
- Provide continuous infrastructure operational support to agile teams via Jira ticketing system
- Write scripts and GitLab-CI jobs to create infrastructure-related CI pipelines such as validating Kubernetes manifests and running terraform plans upon merge requests
Sr. DevOps Engineer
Silicon Beach Solutions, LLC/The Walt Disney Co.
Burbank, CA
12.2019 - 03.2020
- Participated in a 4-month project to design and develop a modern microservice infrastructure for Disney's Aspera media asset management software; leveraging Kubernetes on AWS EKS
- Authored Terraform modules to automate creation and management of integrated AWS infrastructure, with services such as VPC, EC2, EKS, IAM, Lambda, CloudWatch, S3, CloudFront, and much more
- Developed Helm charts to automate creation of Kubernetes manifests. Migrated existing helm charts to Helm v3
- Automated deployment of monitoring tools such as Splunk, NewRelic, and Sysdig
- Designed and implemented SSO integration with EKS using SAML based authentication against Okta, using tools such as Traefik ingress and auth-proxy
- Write Dockerfiles, Jenkinsfiles, and shell scripts to automate application CI/CD pipelines
AWS Applications Architect
TWD & Associates
McLean, VA
02.2019 - 01.2020
- Designed, built, and maintained secure, scalable, and highly available enterprise infrastructure as part of a cloud modernization effort at DHS, with AWS services such as EC2, VPC, KMS, EKS, Route53, Cognito, S3, API Gateway, RDS, CloudWatch, IAM, Kinesis, SQS, and Lambda
- Worked with distributed teams to architect modern application infrastructure frameworks, leveraging microservices architecture
- Developed Bash scripts, Dockerfiles, Helm charts, CloudFormation templates, and Jenkinsfiles to automate creation and management of microservices infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines
- Deployed and managed Kubernetes clusters across multiple environments
DevOps Engineer - Contract
Information International, IIA
Alexandria, VA
06.2018 - 02.2019
- Participated in a cloud migration project to move next-gen Patent and Trademark applications from on-prem to AWS at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), leveraging Apache Tomcat on EC2
- Worked with Development teams to develop and document systems and application architecture, including architecture diagrams, risk management, test plans, and deployment strategy
- Performed smoke tests, POAMs, and risk mitigation of deployed applications
- Ran code quality scans with SonarQube, providing recommendations to development teams based on quality gate thresholds
- Wrote Bash scripts to automate Linux systems operations
- Participated in Agile process, leveraging an iterative approach to software development, testing, and deployment
Jr. Linux Administrator
The Media Trust
McLean, VA
02.2018 - 06.2018
- Actively administer a hybrid RHEL 7 Linux environments consisting of web processing, database, storage, load balancer, firewall, and monitoring servers deployed both on-premises and on AWS cloud
- Write custom Bash Scripts to configure system components and resources such as centralized logging, cron, backups, monitoring, and file management
- Administer and troubleshoot terabyte scale PostgreSQL databases to improve efficiency
- Troubleshoot and resolve OS and application issues in a timely manner
- Drive a substantial increase in web traffic by regularly tuning Apache server configuration to optimize performance
- Use Nagios to actively monitor system performance, incorporating custom Bash shell scripts, NRPE plugins, and ticketing system
- Build and provision new physical servers for on-prem data center, implementing redundant storage solutions using RAID5
- Install, configure, and maintain backup monitoring system on AWS cloud
- Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to ensure system availability
IT Technician
Independent Contractor
Washington DC
01.2015 - 02.2018
- Deployed Node.JS applications to AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) for an e-commerce client, fronted by an elastic load balancer and CloudFront
- Built a fully automated Jenkins CI/CD pipeline using Bash scripts, AWS CLI, and Jenkinsfile to deploy Node application to AWS ECS
- Designed and developed several websites using HTML5, CSS, and JQuery, hosted on S3 bucket static hosting
- Architected and implemented cloud web hosting solution for e-commerce application on AWS, incorporating Route53, CloudFront, S3, ELBs, ECS and S3 Buckets
- Led a 5-person team to develop a website for the International Students Center for Prince George’s Community College
- Designed and wired Local Area Networks (LANs) with Windows 7 workstations and Cisco switches and routers
- Provided Computer support services to local businesses
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of Maryland University College
College Park, MD 08.2015 - 12.2017
Associate of Applied Science - Information Technology
Prince Georges Community College
Largo, MD 08.2013 - 05.2015
Skills
AWS, Linux
Certification
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer - #LF-7mdvt25q8i
Additional Information
Work Authorization: U.S. Citizen
Timeline
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer - #LF-7mdvt25q8i
10-2020
Platform Engineer
24x7 Systems, Inc
04.2020 - Current
Sr. DevOps Engineer
Silicon Beach Solutions, LLC/The Walt Disney Co.
12.2019 - 03.2020
AWS Applications Architect
TWD & Associates
02.2019 - 01.2020
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional - #RH92KGN2KFQQQRK3
01-2019
Docker Certified Associate - #1610000207
08-2018
DevOps Engineer - Contract
Information International, IIA
06.2018 - 02.2019
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate - #90FNYE11JE411JKH
05-2018
Jr. Linux Administrator
The Media Trust
02.2018 - 06.2018
Red Hat Certified System Administrator - #180018327
01-2018
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of Maryland University College
08.2015 - 12.2017
Cisco Certified Networking Associate - #CSCO12644659
06-2015
IT Technician
Independent Contractor
01.2015 - 02.2018
Associate of Applied Science - Information Technology
Prince Georges Community College
08.2013 - 05.2015
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