Cloud

• Designed and ran 6 ETL/ELT pipelines

  Designed, implemented, and administered 6 ETL/ELT pipelines, utilizing Google BigQuery, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, Shell scripting, PL/pgSQL, and Transact‑SQL, integrating data for efficient Python API processing.

• Automated GIS SaaS deployment with GitHub Actions

  Automated GIS SaaS application deployment, data processing, and reporting system using GitHub Actions CI/CD, Python, Bash, and SQL.

• Automated 100 critical data backups using Barman

  Automated 100 critical data backups using Barman, Google Cloud, Bash, and Python, ensuring data integrity across databases.

• Ran 20 Docker apps on Google Cloud and AWS

  Deployed and maintained 20 Docker containerized applications, troubleshooting with Podman and Kubernetes, and managing R‑based apps on Google Cloud and AWS.

• Led access management across M365 and SSO

  Prevented security breaches by leading access management initiatives, utilizing M365, 1Password, Red Hat SSO, and OKTA SSO.

• Managed 8 WireGuard and IPsec VPN connections

  Managed and troubleshot 8 WireGuard VPN and IPsec VPN connections, ensuring secure communication across Google Cloud and Linux systems.

• A tenth of the cloud bill, and nothing lost

  Optimized budget costs 10 times with zero loss in productivity for an international client by reimagining the overall infrastructure, eliminating unnecessary services, and relocating from the AWS cloud.

• Built email with failover and delivery logging

  Built email as a platform capability — three providers with failover, delivery webhooks, send and delivery logging, templating and campaigns — behind a startup check that will not boot without one.

• Provisioned Azure infrastructure as code

  Provisioned Azure infrastructure as code with Bicep — Container Apps, PostgreSQL Flexible Server, Front Door/WAF and networking — across the development, staging and production environments.

• Built GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines

  Built GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines with a distroless production frontend image and multi‑environment promotion.

• Owned end‑to‑end platform deployments to Azure

  Owned end‑to‑end deployments of the platform to Azure, managing releases across development, staging and production environments.

• Implemented backups and disaster recovery as code

  Configured database backup retention as infrastructure‑as‑code, then audited the recovery position and documented the restore procedure — naming the remaining gaps rather than leaving them to be found during an incident.

• Ran 24/7 support for ~1,000 IPTV/OTT servers

  Provided round‑the‑clock 24/7 infrastructure support for an IPTV/OTT streaming platform, administering ~1,000 servers plus client‑owned systems for global customers in China, the US and Germany.

• Built the entire core infrastructure from scratch

  As one of the first hires, designed and built the entire core infrastructure and supporting processes from scratch for a green‑energy SaaS startup, laying the foundation for rapid growth.

• Provisioned a second server from code

  Automated the provisioning of a second server on a second cloud provider, creating the firewall before the machine so it is born behind one, with both providers' firewalls written directly against their REST APIs to avoid a third‑party collection.

This work is part of what we offer as DevOps & CI/CD Automation, Cloud Infrastructure & Migration, Security & Access Management, System Administration, Infrastructure as Code, Networking & VPN Setup, Site Reliability & Monitoring and Backend & API Development.

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