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Christellor Adu

Toronto,ON

Summary

An AWS Certified Solutions Architect and Cloud Practitioner with a passion for leveraging the automation of fault-tolerant, secure, highly available, and cost-optimized infrastructure in the cloud. As a DevOps/Cloud Engineer, I have honed my experience in designing and automating cloud solutions that meet and exceed business expectation, and ensuring customer satisfaction by over 30%.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

AWS DevOps Engineer

CloudSpace LLC
Bristow, VA
06.2021 - Current
  • Implementation of AWS best practices by deploying multiple highly available and fault-tolerant applications, and increased customer satisfaction by 25%.
  • Design and implement CI/CD pipelines for web applications using AWS CodeCommit and AWS CodeBuild to streamline software delivery and improve release frequency. Automate CI/CD with Jenkins and Docker
  • Implement containerized technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes for improved scalability and efficiency.
  • Usage of GIT version control and pair programming to raise speed by 30%.
  • Monitoring Cloud infrastructure with SNS, CloudWatch and CloudTrail. This has helped to increase customer satisfaction by 20%
  • Configure, manage, and monitor cloud-based services such as AWS EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, RDS, Route 53 using CloudFormation and Ansible.
  • Updated software upon release of vendor patches to mitigate vulnerabilities.

Licensed Life Insurance Agent

American Income Life
St. John's, NL
08.2018 - 05.2021
  • Made outbound calls to different union members in Newfoundland, and followed up on leads and referrals.
  • Protected working families with Life Insurance
  • Served as an advisor to union members, explained policy coverage details, answered any inquiries about policy features, benefits and gaps in their insurance.
  • Issued McGruff Safe Kits to families with children below the age of 19
  • Processed applications including collecting relevant documents from applicants, completing forms, and submitting them to the insurance company for approval.

Education

Master of Philosophy - Humanities

Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's | NL, Canada

Master of Public Administration - Public Admin. & Municipal Mgmt.

National Research Uni.- Higher School of Economics
Moscow | Russia
2017-07

Bachelor of Arts - English, Philosophy & Classics

University of Cape Coast
Cape Coast | Ghana

Skills

  • IAM
  • CloudFormation
  • S3 Bucket
  • Route 53
  • Load Balancer
  • EC2
  • VPC
  • CloudFront
  • Linux
  • CodeCommit
  • CodeBuild
  • CodePipeline
  • CloudWatch
  • Jenkins
  • Drawio
  • Ansible
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Source and Version Control
  • Microsoft Office Suite
  • Ability to learn on the job at a fast pace
  • Teamwork & Collaboration Skills
  • Effective communication skills on the job
  • Problem Solving & Critical Thinking

Certification

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Languages

English
Full Professional

Timeline

AWS DevOps Engineer

CloudSpace LLC
06.2021 - Current

Licensed Life Insurance Agent

American Income Life
08.2018 - 05.2021

Master of Philosophy - Humanities

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Master of Public Administration - Public Admin. & Municipal Mgmt.

National Research Uni.- Higher School of Economics

Bachelor of Arts - English, Philosophy & Classics

University of Cape Coast
Christellor Adu