Resume

Freelance

Botanic Empire

Situation

  • Self-wellness company getting ready to launch
  • Owner wants to lay the foundation for cloud and poise for growth

Task

  • Work with stakeholders on defining needed services
  • Empower the team to manage as much of their own day to day IT needs as possible

Action

  • Set up authentication and cloud storage for teams
  • Integrate 3rd-party services with cloud infrastructure as necessary
  • Document infrastructure and processes along the way

Result

  • Company is poised for growth
  • Launch put on hold due to last-minute funding holdup
Quanticity

Situation

  • Software development on the robot prototype has been slow

Task

  • Recruit and coordinate developers
  • Set up development pipelines
  • Organize cloud strategy

Action

  • Implement CI / CD pipelines from GitLab to AWS.
  • Set up AWS Organizations + Control Tower for observability and security

Result

  • Pivoted to hiring outside consultants for MVP development
  • Internal process change enabled smooth transition to long-term consultant
  • Will provide an off-ramp when the company has the resources to build an internal team
[name withheld]

Situation

  • Automotive maintenance concierge startup is running short on funding runway, down to less than 6 months
  • Manual operations due to software incompatibility cause unnecessary interventions, killing productivity and are heavily error-prone
  • Owner is non-technical and therefore unable to properly manage IT vision, scope projects, and ensure accountability

Task

  • Learn the business
  • Develop key milestones
  • Lead the development team to automate the steps between customers, Client, and auto shops

Action

  • Manage projects, coordinate technical staff, replaced two programmers
  • Develop integrations with the website, Zoho Workplace suite, and partner auto shop systems

Result

  • Client remains in business after being able to secure additional funding
  • Foundation has been laid for future success

Prime TSR / ConvergeOne

AWS Consultant / Architect

AWS Well-Architected Framework review (WAFR)

  • Listen to the client's goals, requirements, and other criteria. Interface with clients across functional teams such as product owners, developers, database, networking, finance, etc.
  • Develop organizational policies appropriate to each client for following best practices and meeting their cloud goals, while maintaining agile flexibility.
  • Implement solutions in accordance with AWS's WAF pillars which include operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization.

Infrastructure Monitoring

  • Implemented platforms such as Splunk and Solarwinds to create insight into infrastructure.
  • Created custom KPI's to follow trends over time.
  • Move clients into AWS Organizations to streamline infrastructure and billing, taking advantage of Control Tower, Config, and IAM for automation.
  • Improve security through account segmentation.

Cloud Architecture

  • Design performant and resilient architectures (event-driven with disaster recovery procedures).
  • Set up IAM policies for least-privilege access, develop organizational policies.
  • Documentation - Author schematics and tutorials, guide the long-term maintainers to success.

DevOps

  • Create infrastructure-as-code powered CI/CD pipelines with tools including Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Ansible, and Terraform.
  • Created processes with automated containerization to go from development > QA > production.

Project Management

  • Collaborated in pre-sales engagements to identify goals and solutions, then scoping the correct internal resources to assign to the project.
  • Keep the team organized, identify KPI's, track progress, report up, and lead agile/SCRUM meetings.
  • Utilize Asana to build out projects, monitor workloads, and create automation when possible.
  • Regulatory procedures and auditing - PCI, HIPAA, SOC2, GDPR, etc.

Links

Purohit Navigation

Digital Solutions Architect

Responsibilities

  • Oversaw development of multiple app and website projects
  • Scope and coordinate projects for multiple Fortune 500 clients
  • Managed a team of in-house staff, freelancers, and contractors while prioritizing resources
  • Interface with cross-functional teams, coordinate meetings, develop processes
  • Identify both client and internal opportunities, develop short and long-term strategies
  • Attend client meetings at all stages as needed

Achievements

  • Architected and migrated client-facing infrastructure to AWS, providing over a 70% cost reduction
  • Promoted from Developer, and grew the Digital Marketing department from 1 to 3 full-time positions
  • Introduced department processes including code management and documentation
  • Facilitated internal education workshops, significantly reducing error cost
  • Expanded service offerings to include data analytics (Power BI dashboards)
  • Established and refined inter-departmental processes, saving tens of hours per month

South Shore Media

Owner / Consultant / Developer

Responsibilities

  • Managed all aspects of client and partner relations
  • Scope projects, provide estimates, engineer solutions
  • Execute development work, provide on-site assistance and training

Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional

In-progress
Credly Verification

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

2019-2025
Credly Verification

AWS Certified SysOps Associate

2019-2023
Credly Verification

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional

TBD
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HashiCorp Cloud Engineer

TBD
Credly Verification

Technology Experience

Full-Stack Web Development

Languages

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Javascript
  • Typescript
  • PHP
  • SQL
  • Go

Servers

  • Apache
  • MySQL
  • Node.js

Frameworks

  • WordPress
  • Bootstrap
  • jQuery
  • Next.js (React)
AWS Cloud Architecture

Services

  • EC2
  • RDS (MySQL, Aurora)
  • DynamoDB
  • IAM
  • Route53
  • S3
  • Lambda
  • EventBridge
  • VPC
  • Lambda
  • EFS
  • VPC
  • ElastiCache
  • SQS
  • API Gateway
  • ECS (Fargate / Kubernetes)
  • CloudFront
  • Elastic Beanstalk
  • Amazon Rekognition

DevOps

  • Jenkins
  • GitLab CI
  • OpenTofu / Terraform
  • Ansible
  • Docker

Well-Architected Framework

  • Control Tower
  • AWS Organizations
  • CloudWatch
  • Cost Explorer
  • AWS Config
  • CloudTrail

Other

  • PowerBI
  • PowerShell
  • Linux (AWS, Ubuntu, RPiOS)
  • Virtualization - Hyper-V, Virtualbox
  • Markdown
  • Git
  • Project Management - Jira, Azure DevOps, Asana

Hardware

  • Raspberry Pi
  • Arduino