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Independent Systems & AI Consultant April 2009 – Present Provide high-end cloud architecture, server tuning, critical-incident recovery, and modern data engineering services to global clients. Completed 140+ engagements on Upwork with a perfect 5.0/5.0 feedback rating. AI Data Pipeline & Serverless Warehousing (2025 – 2026): Engineered a serverless data catalog pipeline using Python (BeautifulSoup, requests) to automatically scrape, parse, and clean investigative articles from target web sources [1]. Structured the raw extracted payload into optimized Apache Parquet tables and deployed them directly to Hugging Face Datasets for serverless hosting [1]. Built an interactive search and query dashboard in Gradio, utilizing custom DNS records (ALIAS/CNAME) to map and serve the app securely on DigitalOcean's cloud. Cloud Infrastructure & Migrations (AWS EC2 / VPS): Architected and built high-availability Linux cloud servers on AWS EC2, configured with WHM/cPanel, Concrete5 CMS, and optimized PHP environments. Successfully migrated legacy physical dedicated servers to scalable Virtual Private Servers (VPS) with CentOS/RHEL. Critical System Recovery & Administration: Diagnosed and resolved emergency service outages, including JBOSS server crash failures, Plesk/cPanel software conflicts on legacy CentOS nodes, and data recovery via mounting RAID arrays on FreeBSD. Configured Snort IDS, hardened server network boundaries, and conducted end-to-end performance audits. UNIX Engineer | E Solutions Corporation March 2008 – April 2009 (1 year 2 months) Supported physical operations and infrastructure for a Tier-1 collocation facility. Administered and engineered OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Linux, and Windows server environments daily. Identified and successfully resolved a high volume of network and host-based security vulnerabilities. Stabilized the physical bandwidth billing system for accuracy and provided system-level engineering support to the web development team. UNIX System Engineer | Hilton Grand Vacations (HGVC) November 2006 – March 2008 (1 year 5 months) Served as the single onsite point of operations for all HP-UX, Solaris, FreeBSD, macOS X, and Linux servers. Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) Architecture: Designed and built a custom corporate Data Warehouse using RedHat Enterprise Linux, IBM Information Server, and the Sun N1 toolkit. Backported RedHat clustering utilities and GFS modules specifically for RHEL 4 to support database stability. Tailored operating systems to run the IBM Information Server 8 product family, including IBM DB2 V9.3, WebSphere 6.0, DataStage, and QualityStage. Web Presence Engineering: Designed and deployed the company's external web servers on the Solaris 10 platform using Sun T2000 hardware. Leveraged Solaris Zones, hardware RAID, and the ZFS filesystem to isolate and optimize traffic. Authored custom system automation utilities in Perl, C, and the Bourne shell to debug complex kernel and network issues. UNIX Administrator | Vortech, Inc. 2004 – 2006 (2 years) UNIX Administration & Support | Magna Computer Corp September 2003 – May 2004 (9 months) UNIX System Administrator & Network Engineer | Independent Consultant November 2001 – July 2003 Implemented OpenBSD, Linux, and Windows servers in high-density colocation centers. Configured custom web application servers from scratch using Apache, Perl, PHP, and MySQL. Programmed terminal-based console utilities in C and ncurses, utilizing the GTK toolkit and X11 API. Second Level Support | Jobwarehouse May 2001 – September 2001 (5 months) Provided secondary engineering support for primary web servers and high-volume data processing tasks. Education Valencia Community College | 1996 – 1998 | Computer Science & Systems Study Winter Park High School | 1992 – 1996 | Gifted Academic Program Professional Recommendation "Aaron is a very good systems engineer for Linux, UNIX and Windows. He has an in depth understanding of system internals. I found him to be an honorable man that stands behind his word and keeps on track of the project. He would make a good supervisor in any company." — Shelton R., Sr. IT Consultant / DB2 DBA Expert, Xtivia (worked directly with Aaron at HGVC)

I'm an Amazon Web Services focused full stack engineer with 7 AWS certifications. I am a Node.js & Python expert and specialize in AWS microservice development using serverless technologies like Lambda, SAM, CDK, API Gateway, AppSync, DynamoDB, Step Functions, SQS & EventBridge. As well as AWS DevOps using AWS native CICD tools like CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CloudFormation and ECS Docker. CERTIFICATIONS - AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional - AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate - AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional - AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate - AWS Certified Security - Specialty - AWS Certified Developer - Associate - AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Kubernetes Orchestration Expert with extensive experience architecting and managing production-grade clusters across AWS EKS and self-hosted environments. Skilled in implementing advanced networking configurations, resource optimization, and designing CI/CD-friendly deployment patterns that maximize reliability and minimize downtime. LLM Infrastructure Engineer specializing in production deployment of AI systems. Expert in vector database implementation (Pinecone, QDrant), prompt engineering, and building cost-efficient inference pipelines at scale. Experienced with OpenAI API integration and custom model deployment. AWS Infrastructure Architect with 5+ years of experience designing and implementing resilient, secure, and cost-optimized cloud environments. Deep knowledge of AWS services including EC2, EKS, ECS, RDS, ALB, Security Hub, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, IAM, Control Tower, Organizations, S3, KMS, Secrets Manager, and WAF. Security Engineering Specialist focused on implementing defense-in-depth strategies across cloud environments. Experienced in conducting security audits, implementing least-privilege access controls, and designing systems that maintain compliance while enabling developer productivity. Certifications AWS Solutions Architect Professional AWS Security Specialty AWS Solutions Architect Associate HashiCorp Terraform Associate Client Success Story ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Amazing work! Alex is knowledgeable, responsive, and extremely diligent. Working with someone with expert knowledge of both DevOps and security has helped us immensely in passing our Amazon SP-API security audit, which involved migrating all of our infrastructure to AWS on very short notice and adding numerous layers of security. I HIGHLY recommend Alex to anybody looking for a DevOps or security expert (especially if you need both!)" - CEO of CCEN Industry Experience FinTech & Trading: Designed low-latency infrastructure for mission-critical financial services AI-First Startups: Implemented scalable infrastructure for AI/ML workloads SaaS Applications: Created multi-tenant architectures optimized for security and performance Technical Proficiencies Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Pulumi CI/CD Automation: GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, GitLab CI/CD Container Orchestration: Kubernetes (EKS), ECS (Fargate, EC2) GitOps: ArgoCD Monitoring & Observability: CloudWatch, New Relic, Datadog, FluentBit Identity Management: IAM, Okta Cloud Security: Siems, Security Hub, Audits, Compliance Programming: Python, Go, Typescript Availability M-F 5pm-11pm EST, Weekends 6am-10pm EST

I am a Computer Sciences Engineer, with more than 10+ years in Cloud/Network/System Administration, AWS, GCP, Docker, Ansible, DBA, MongoDB, Jenkins, Rundeck, en other CI/CD tools. Security and Cost Reduction in AWS is my passion. Devops with more than 7+ years of experience. Design and development of Networks, VPCs. Full CI/CD flows from dev to production. Guaranteeing high availability, scalability, reliability and high performance of applications in AWS Cloud. Software Developer/Architect/Analyst with over 6 year of experience in different fields of Software development process. Responsible and committed engineer, with a get-it-done, on-time spirit. with a strong tendency to improve my self each time. Fast learner and excellent team player.

Alexander has over 20 years of experience working with Microsoft SQL Server in On-Premise and AWS environments. He has designed, implemented and managed large scale, high transaction rate databases for a number of clients in a variety of industries. He has also created and managed large private cloud environments utilizing Dell & HP hardware, Cisco firewalls, Kemp and F5 load balancers. He has managed multiple technical teams working on SQL Server and private cloud operations as well as SQL Server environments in Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Certified AWS Cloud Practitioner

19 year industry veteran Highlights: - Built fitness tech application (alone) to $350 million acquisition supporting over 600,000 customers with 10,000 concurrent and $5 million in monthly transactions. - BA Visual Arts - Built 3 development teams, 2 through Fortune 500 acquisition. - CNBC Power Lunch & Fox Business News Tech Take correspondent. Skills: Specialization in emergency response debugging, DevOps, AWS network infrastructure, nosql and relational databases, email, a Soc1, soc2, pci-dss, 21 cfr 11 (fda digital records), and programming languages. Languages: PHP, Python, TypeScript, Pinescript, Ruby on Rails, HTML 5, CSS3, RSS, JavaScript (Angular, ReactJS, NodeJs, Prototype, JQuery), .NET, Bash, CMD. Frameworks: Laravel, WordPress, Drupal, Typo3, Joomla, Oscommerce, Magento, Shopify, Django, Flask, ReactNative Stacks: LAMP, LEMP (nginx), WAMP, WIMP (IIS), XAMPP. Servers: Windows, Debian and RPM based linux distros (CentOS, RedHat, Ubuntu, Debian), SMTP and Exchange mail servers. Networking: AWS solutions architect (all things under a VPC and more). DevOps: Ansible, Jenkins, Gulp/Grant, Github, Gitlab, Bitbucket, JIRA. Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MsSQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, DynamoDb API's: All things RESTful both OAuth 1 and 2.