EDUCATION
University of Lincoln, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Master of Science, Cloud Computing, Distinction
Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo, Nigeria Bachelor of Science (Honours), Computer Science, GPA: 4.73
CERTIFICATIONS
- Terraform Associate
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
- Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals
- Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
- Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Capacitas, London, United Kingdom
Junior Devops Consultant, 2023 - present
- Designed cloud infrastructure solutions on AWS, ensuring scalability, high availability, and optimal performance
- Developed Terraform and CloudFormation scripts to automate infrastructure provisioning and deployments, ensuring consistent configuration and reducing provisioning time to minutes
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, automating the build, test, and deployment processes for cloud-based applications and infrastructure, resulting in a 30% reduction in deployment times
- Created a FinOps reporting dashboard, improving cost visibility for AWS and Azure cloud infrastructure, and reducing cloud spend by 10%
- Utilised the Serverless Framework to create and deploy Lambda functions on AWS, enabling efficient development and deployment of serverless applications
Axocheck, Lagos, Nigeria
DevOps Engineer, 2021 - 2022
- Deployed and hosted applications on AWS EC2 instances, leveraging the scalability and flexibility of the cloud environment
- Managed and maintained AWS cloud-based systems through the implementation of automated monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions
- Leveraged AWS budgets by setting up custom budgets to monitor and control resource usage, which led to a 15% reduction in expenses
SystemSpecs Limited, Lagos, Nigeria
Quality Assurance Analyst, 2019 - 2021
- Developed and executed 100+ test cases for the Remita Payment Gateway System
- Conducted automated testing using Postman, focusing on API testing to ensure the robustness and reliability of software system
- Collaborated with development teams to identify and resolve critical defects
PROJECTS
The Cloud Resume Challenge
This webpage you are viewing is the end-product of Forrest Brazeal's cloud resume challenge. The project contains 16 steps challenging participants to produce a resume running on serverless infrastructure. Technologies Utilized: AWS S3, Route53, Certificates Manager, CloudFront, API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, AWS SAM, CloudFormation, Github Actions, Python (Boto3), HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES
- AWS
- Azure
- Linux
- Terraform
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Git
- Python
- Jenkins
- Azure DevOps
- SQL
- Bash