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Yanick Wanzi

Verified Expert in Engineering

CI/CD Pipelines Developer

Houston, TX, United States

Toptal member since November 11, 2024

Expertise

Linux AWS Kubernetes Ansible Microservices Development Grafana Terraform Nexus Jenkins Java Docker Data Migration Git GitHub

Bio

Yanick is a DevOps engineer and a scrum master with over eight years of experience managing cloud and on-prem services, leading agile teams as a servant leader. He has worked on automating tasks for various clients, provisioning and configuring infrastructure, managing CI/CD pipelines, and focusing on setting up, managing, securing, and monitoring cloud-managed services. Yanick is a very flexible and goal-oriented professional who thrives in challenging environments.

Portfolio

Amerant

AWS IoT, Kubernetes, CI/CD Pipelines, Ansible, Terraform, Linux, Apache Maven...

Experience

Jenkins - 8 years
CI/CD Pipelines - 8 years
AWS IoT - 8 years
Kubernetes - 7 years
Docker - 7 years
Terraform - 6 years
Nexus - 5 years
SonarQube - 5 years

Availability

Full-time

Preferred Environment

AWS IoT

The most amazing...

...projects I've worked on involved automating manual tasks, increasing efficiency and reducing time spent on manual work.

Work Experience

Kubernetes Engineer

2021 - PRESENT

Amerant

Leveraged reusable Terraform modules, variables, and workspaces to automate infrastructure provisioning and reduce deployment time by 60%.
Created, tracked, and managed tasks, vulnerabilities, requests, and incidents, leveraging Agile methodologies, Jira, and Confluence to create, organize, and share documentation within the team.
Developed and maintained CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment processes using Docker, Terraform, Git, GitHub, and Jenkins.

Technologies: AWS IoT, Kubernetes, CI/CD Pipelines, Ansible, Terraform, Linux, Apache Maven, SonarQube, SonarCloud, Nexus, Jenkins, Docker, Java, Bash Script, Microservices, Argo CD, Helm, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK (Elastic Stack), Git, GitHub

Experience

Data Migration

This project involved data migration for a Java-based eCommerce application. I led a team that moved from a monolithic architecture to microservices, transforming the monolithic application into smaller, more manageable parts that could be independently managed.

Certifications

SEPTEMBER 2024 - SEPTEMBER 2025

Certified SAFe 5 Advanced Scrum Master

Scaled Agile

SEPTEMBER 2024 - PRESENT

Professional Scrum Master 1

Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 2024 - SEPTEMBER 2027

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Amazon Web Services

Skills

Tools

Ansible, Terraform, Grafana, ELK (Elastic Stack), Apache Maven, SonarQube, SonarCloud, Jenkins, Helm, Git, GitHub

Paradigms

Microservices, Scrum

Platforms

AWS IoT, Kubernetes, Linux, Nexus, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker

Languages

Java, Bash Script

Frameworks

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

Other

CI/CD Pipelines, Argo CD, Prometheus, Scrum Master, Data Migration

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