Samir Patel
Verified Expert in Engineering
AWS CodePipeline Developer
Samir is an experienced IT professional with over 20 years of experience. He currently specializes in cloud technologies with an emphasis on the AWS product suite. Samir is comfortable providing DevOps solutions within an agile framework and aligning development and operations-focused projects.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Linux, MacOS, Slack, Jira, Confluence, Containers
The most amazing...
...thing I did was help script the migration of 1,500+ Linux nodes from RedHat to Debian in three weeks using FAI and Puppet.
Work Experience
Senior Cloud Engineer
Rackspace Technology
- Developed a CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins and CloudFormation that created Docker containers and pushed the changes to AWS ECS.
- Helped set up AWS services for a client to move from GCP into AWS within a 6-day window.
- Contributed to a security project to roll out AWS Config with a number of custom rules for maintaining compliance.
Server Architect
Alberta Health Services
- Built virtual LDOM instances running on Solaris 11 for a multitude of internal clients running various medical applications.
- Documented hardware in an ITIL CMDB. Followed change management processes for installing software/hardware.
- Mentored junior members on ITIL processes and reviewed change management tickets.
Technical Consultant
Mainland Information Systems
- Provided Solaris and Linux operations support to our main client Alberta Health Services.
- Installed Solaris 10-11 systems as required, helped with Netbackup upgrade, and created scripts for automation. Certified in becoming a Symantec Cluster Server administrator on version 6.2.
- Helped build virtual servers running on Solaris utilizing the Veritas Storage foundation file system for failover.
IT Senior Specialist
CGG
- Worked in a team to help maintain 1,500+ Linux cluster nodes used for various land and marine data seismic processing jobs.
- Coordinated with vendors to ensure hardware was maintained, troubleshot cluster job processing, and maintained backups.
- Created a fully automated script with Perl that interacted with Netbackup to allow tape operators to receive Netbackup alerts and exchange/add new LTO3/4 tapes.
Experience
AWS ECS Web Application Migration
Multi AWS account IAC pipeline
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering
University of Bristol - Bristol, UK
Certifications
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate
AWS
AWS Certified Developer Associate
AWS
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
AWS
AWS Certified Security - Specialty
AWS
AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty
AWS
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Jenkins Pipeline
Tools
AWS Systems Manager, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS Key Management Service (KMS), AWS IAM, Amazon CloudWatch, Jira, Confluence, Terraform, Slack, Jenkins, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR)
Platforms
Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, Linux, Docker, MacOS, Solaris
Paradigms
Continuous Integration (CI), DevOps
Storage
Amazon S3 (AWS S3)
Languages
Python 3, Bash Script, Python
Other
Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Amazon RDS, CI/CD Pipelines, Networking, AWS CodePipeline, Amazon Macie, Containers, NetBackup
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