// Personal site — rev 2
Design Engineer (4 yrs, CAD/SolidWorks) building toward Cloud & DevOps Engineering — through real, self-directed infrastructure projects, not just certificates.
I spent the last four years as a Design Engineer working in SolidWorks — precise, structured, documentation-heavy work. In parallel, I completed a six-month AWS & DevOps certification and started applying it for real: designing infrastructure the same way I used to design mechanical assemblies — with a clear spec, a working prototype, and a record of what changed and why.
Below are the projects I've actually built myself, not tutorials I followed along with. I'm currently extending this with a CI/CD pipeline and a monitoring stack — see "in progress" below.
AWS — EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, IAM, Route 53, ALB, Auto Scaling, CloudWatch
Terraform — modular, reusable, parameterized per environment
Docker; Kubernetes fundamentals (in progress)
Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI
Prometheus, Grafana (in progress)
Git, Bash, Python, PowerShell
Designed a highly available, disaster-resilient AWS architecture — Route 53 DNS failover with health checks, multi-AZ Application Load Balancers, and Auto Scaling Groups for self-healing.
Automated deployment of the architecture above using modular Terraform — reusable modules for VPC, EC2, ASG, ALB, and Route 53, parameterized across environments.