My Work History

Site Reliability Engineer @ SSNC
April 2022 - Current

📃 Responsibilities
- Designed architecture for highly available database solution and built it with automated CI/CD systems such as Terraform.
- Documented automated solutions and support specifications for on boarding new team members
- Coordinated support and maintenance efforts during on-call rotations across multiple development teams
🧰 Tools
- Terraform, AWS, Git, Python, Ansible, Shell, Jira, Confluence
Devops Consultant @ Career Mentor Group
May 2021 - January 2022

📃 Responsibilities
- Deployed GitOps deployment pipeline to automate AWS infrastructure development
- Automated DevSecOps workflow in Windows and Linux environments to meet DoD network security compliance guidelines
- Populated data warehouse using custom web scrapers through automated CI/CD data ingestion pipeline
🧰 Tools
- Python with Pandas, Terraform, Ansible, Gitlab CI/CD, Windows Domain Server, Selenium, Gitlab
❕ Started as intern as Critical Design Associates(sister company) before moving into this role.
Fullfilment Associate @ Amazon
May 2020 - Dec 2020

Fulfill basic warehouse and stock order duties. Responsibilities include offloading merchandise trucks, locating stock, and packing items for shipment.
Computer Architecture Professor Assistant @ CSU Monterey Bay
Oct 2019 - Dec 2019

📃 Responsibilities
- Led lab sessions intended on reinforcing lecture subject matter for a class of 60 students
- Outlined individual improvement plans for struggling students and performed checkups ensuring students stayed on track
- Assisted in designing exam question to be within the scope of lecture and lab course material
🧰 Tools
- MIPS, Git, Excel
Capstone Project Lead @ California State University Monterey Bay
Sep 2019 - Dec 2019

Led development of data analytics toolset with a team of 4 members. Developed custom data visualization tools using:
- Python
- Numpy
- Matplotlib
Worked with data from the U.S Naval Research Laboratory’s compute clusters.

Projects

👀 Check my 🔗 Git server for all my projects

Clippable

A self hosted video streaming platform

📃 Designed and architected a cost effective scalable video streaming platform. Implemented deployment automation systems which reduce standard server maintainence to a single command. Reduced operational costs by evaluating optimal EC2 instance for the given network load.

🧰 Tools Used: Gitlab, Ansible, Rust, Tera, Templating, Engine, Typescript/Node, AWS, Terraform

Freechat

FOSS Decentralized Chatting

Developed a scalable decentralized chat platform. Designed and documented asynchronous API protocol built with Rust, Python, and containerized all parts of the system for simple deployment. Also drafted a wiki page detailing all available endpoints which can be found here

🧰 Tools Used: Rust, REST API, RTC Websockets, Python

Handmade Operating System

An x86 kernel I wrote for fun and learning

📃 Designed and implemented a baremetal x86 kernel written completely from scratch. ISO files are automatically built via Gitlab CI/CD pipelines which allow users to run the kernel on real hardware!

🧰 Tools Used C, x86 Assembly, Cutter, Bochs,

No standard library & and no external libraries were used

Personal Cloud Infrastructure

Architecture hosting all my web facing projects

📃 Infrastructure code for my public public web-facing projects. Designed to accommodate containerized applications, static web servers, and community chat bot’s. Development streamed on Twitch and is an on-going project as I continue to support my communities.

🧰 Tools used: Terraform, Ansible, Bash, Linux

Self Hosted Personal Blog

Powered By Hugo and Gitea CI/CD

📃 My own personal blog where I post about projects that I’m working on at the time. I keep the site maintained through the use of automated CI/CD pipelines with Gitlab and Hugo. Built a responsive site theme which leverages Go templates producing a lightweight front-end.

🧰 Tools used: Gitlab CI/CD, Go templates, Ansible HTML CSS Javascript

🔗 Website Link - shockrah.xyz

Education

AWS Certified Cloud Practioneer
Certificate acheived June 2023 Certificate Link
Splunk Core User Certified
Certification acheived August 2021 Certificate Link
CompTIA Security+ Certified
Certification acheived July 2021

Certificate id: 83JZR9SPWDV1Q6CS
California State University Monterey Bay
Bachelor's acheived Dec 2019