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Tankoua Tchouetckea

Anoka,MN

Summary

Critical Thinking DevOps Engineer with expertise in high availability architecture and concepts. A purpose-driven professional dedicated to delivering exceptional results and contributing to team success. Demonstrates adaptability and thrives in dynamic environments while collaborating with others or working independently.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

DevOps Engineer

Hammer & NER
2020.08 - Current
  • Streamlined deployment processes by developing automation scripts, resulting in improved efficiency
  • Implemented sustainable frameworks to optimize ongoing processes for continuous integration and deployment
  • Streamlined server provisioning through the utilization of Ansible and implementation of DataDog for monitoring purposes.
  • Collaboratively ensured that application architecture designs met scalability requirements
  • Played an integral role in implementing security measures while actively participating in team-based assessments, ultimately achieving DevOps goals
  • Streamlined Helm chart deployments by integrating argoCD with Jenkins and Gitlab CI/CD
  • Created Kubernetes manifest files to fulfill network security, scalability, and deployment requirements for microservice applications
  • Proficient in identifying and fixing problems with containers, pods, and applications within Kubernetes clusters
  • Simplified the migration process of legacy applications by converting docker-compose files into Kubernetes manifests across diverse environments
  • Collaborated effectively with various teams to guarantee compliance with industry standards and policies.
  • Enhanced and sustained a robust development branching strategy that supported continuous integration for numerous parallel releases.
  • Leveraged open-source technologies and tools to effectively tackle project-specific use cases
  • Conducted evaluations of new technology alternatives and successfully implemented cloud-based initiatives, while offering required training
  • Handled end-to-end processes for creating, releasing, and configuring production systems.
  • Optimized existing development and release processes through automation
  • Achieved enhanced visibility and proactive detection of security and service incidents by developing and implementing monitoring and logging solutions
  • Produced comprehensive documentation outlining processes and tasks for standardization, promoting their adoption throughout the IT organization via AWS DevOps wiki and Quality Management System (when applicable).
  • Provided ongoing support to promote the implementation of DevOps practices, fostering a culture of continuous improvement within the organization.
  • Relocated workload across diverse cloud platforms.
  • Increased code deployment efficiency by implementing automated processes with CI/CD pipelines.
  • Increased team productivity by automating manual tasks using programming languages such as Python and Shell.

DevOps Engineer

Abbott Lab
2018.03 - 2020.09
  • Increased application scalability by identifying and addressing performance bottlenecks
  • Implemented effective management of cloud-based services on AWS by leveraging Terraform and Ansible.
  • Streamlined build procedures through the implementation of Jenkins, Docker, and various scripting languages such as Python and Bash.
  • Deployed microservices on Kubernetes clusters for increased scalability and availability
  • Enhanced productivity by implementing version control systems and troubleshooting technical issues using root cause analysis.
  • Ensured optimal performance of infrastructure components through the management of disaster recovery exercises
  • Developed Python and Bash shell scripts to automate CI/CD pipeline configurations, server setups, cluster event notifications, and scheduled tasks for monitoring, backups, and cleanup
  • Partnered with Solution Architect and cross-functional teams in determining pipeline and release plan, implementing diverse technology to deploy highly available applications on multiple platforms.
  • Upheld security best practices across all infrastructure and deployment procedures
  • Provided technology adoption recommendations to Service Owner and Leadership
  • Proactively addressed issues by deploying effective monitoring and logging solutions to enhance system visibility
  • Focused on enhancing TTCs through the implementation of robust CI/CD pipeline.
  • Conducted analysis and optimization of infrastructure costs.
  • Significantly improved code deployment efficiency by leveraging CI/CD pipelines to automate processes.
  • Increased team productivity by employing scripting languages such as Python and Shell to automate previously manual tasks.
  • Automated manual tasks through scripting languages such as Python or Shell, boosting team productivity levels.
  • Improved code deployment efficiency by automating processes with CI/CD pipelines.

Education

Master of Science in Information Systems -

University of Phoenix
Phoenix, AZ
02.2022

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering -

Saint Cloud State University
Saint Cloud, MN
05.2011

Skills

  • Databases: RDBMS; NoSQL; Cloud
  • Version Control: Git
  • CI/CD: Jenkins; ArgoCD; GitLab; Azure DevOps; GitHub Actions
  • Configuration Management: Ansible; Puppet
  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform; AWS CloudFormation; Azure Resource Manager (ARM)
  • Containerization And Orchestration: Docker; Kubernetes; Docker Compose;
  • Build and Package Management: Maven; Gradle; NPM; Helm;
  • Scripting Language: Bash; Python;
  • Cloud Providers & Services: AWS; EKS; GCP
  • Configuration Management (Ansible)

References

Available upon request.

Timeline

DevOps Engineer

Hammer & NER
2020.08 - Current

DevOps Engineer

Abbott Lab
2018.03 - 2020.09

Master of Science in Information Systems -

University of Phoenix

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering -

Saint Cloud State University
Tankoua Tchouetckea