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🎯 100% Refund If I set the wrong expectations and can’t deliver. No questions asked. Top-Rated Plus, Upwork Top 1 Percent, Highly recommended. What do I offer: 1- 100% work satisfaction 2- 24/7 Support 3- On-time delivery 4- Enterprise quality 5- 15 Days of free support after completion of the project Cloud Architect with 10+ years of DevOps experience, specializing in scalable, platform-agnostic cloud infrastructures. Proven track record in high-scale environments. Proficient in Infrastructure as Code, automation, and scripting, with expertise in CI/CD, Cloud Services, and Infrastructure Automation. Skilled in building, deploying, and managing applications on AWS, GCP, Azure, and OCI, with a focus on robust monitoring and observability. ➜ Zazmic Inc, San Francisco, CA • Automation Tools: Terraform, Ansible • Cloud Platforms: GCP • Containerization: Docker, Helm charts • CI/CD: GitLab CI • Monitoring: HPA, Cloud Armour • Databases: Different kinds of databases on GCP ➜ Tripleseat, Concord, Massachusetts • Cloud Platforms: Azure, GCP • Containerization: Docker • CI/CD: Azure Pipelines, Azure DevOps • Monitoring: Grafana, Prometheus ➜ Century Communities, Inc., Greenwood Village, CO • Cloud Platforms: AWS, Oracle Cloud • Automation Tools: Lambda functions, Ansible • Containerization: Docker, AWS ECS, EKS • CI/CD: CircleCI, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline • Monitoring: CloudWatch, CloudFront ➜ Summary: • Proficient in Kubernetes, I architect and manage clusters to facilitate agile and scalable application deployment. • Skilled in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), I employ Terraform, Ansible, and Chef to automate configuration and ensure uniform environments. • With hands-on experience in CI/CD pipeline creation and maintenance using Jenkins, GitLab CI, and Azure DevOps, I ensure the efficient and reliable delivery of software products. • Possessing a robust background in Linux/UNIX system administration, including expertise in managing RHEL environments. • Armed in scripting with Bash and Python to streamline automation processes and optimize operational efficiency. • Good Know how of monitoring and logging tools such as Elasticsearch, CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana, enabling proactive monitoring of infrastructure and application health. • Experienced in VMware virtualization, proficiently managing VMs, executing V-motion operations, and maintaining Snapshots. • Adaptable to fast-paced 24/7 production environments, providing responsive on-call support, including weekends. • Successfully deployed and managed scalable microservices on Kubernetes clusters across GCP and AWS platforms. • Expertise extends to migrating on-premises workloads to the cloud, focusing on performance optimization and cost efficiency. • Possess proactive problem-solving and troubleshooting skills essential for maintaining high-quality production environments. • Strong communication and collaboration abilities, facilitating effective bridging of the gap between development and operations teams. ➜ Tools: Git, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation, ELK, GitLab, GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, Docker Compose, Grafana, Telegraf, CircleCI, Traefik, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), GitHub, VPN, AWS Fargate, Amazon CloudFront CDN, AWS IAM, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, Docker Swarm, NGINX, Puppet, Jenkins, Amazon EKS, Amazon Simple Queue Service, RabbitMQ, Celery, TeamCity, Nagios, Makefile, AWS CodeDeploy, Confluence, AWS CodeBuild ➜ Platforms: Linux, Docker, Amazon Web Services, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon EC2, Kubernetes, AWS Lambda, Windows, Apache Kafka, JVM, Heroku, Azure, WordPress, New Relic, Windows Server, Google Cloud Platform, Blockchain, Rancher ➜ Storage: Amazon Aurora, Amazon S3, MySQL, MongoDB, InfluxDB, Redis, On-premise, Amazon DynamoDB, Redis Cache, Elasticsearch, MySQL, Databases, PostgreSQL ➜ Languages: Python, Bash, Java, PHP, Markdown, Go, JavaScript, SQL, TypeScript ➜ Frameworks: Flask, Django, Windows PowerShell, .NET, Serverless Framework ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #CloudArchitect #DevOps #Kubernetes #Terraform#Azure #GCP #Docker #CI_CD #InfrastructureAsCode #CloudMigration #DevOpsEngineer #Automation #CloudInfrastructure #Microservices #CloudSecurity #NetworkSecurity #AWSCloud #AzureCloud #Serverless #AWSLambda #AzureDevOps #GitLabCI #GitHubActions #Linux #Unix #Bash #Python #GoLang #Java #Git #Ansible #Jenkins #NGINX #ApacheKafka #Databases #SQL #MySQL #PostgreSQL #MongoDB #Redis #DynamoDB #CloudStorage #S3 #CloudWatch #BackendInfrastructure #WebInfrastructure

US-Based. Ex-Google Senior Systems Engineer. I have over 25 years of running Linux infrastructure, websites, system administration and technical services. I can help with: * Linux server troubleshooting, setup & security (CentOS, Ubuntu, Alma, Rocky, etc.) * Apache & nginx web servers * MySQL & MariaDB SQL servers * Email services (dovecot, exim, sendmail) * PHP, Golang, Python programming, Bash scripting * SSL certificate issues * DNS issues * Wordpress issues * Server & website migrations. * VPI/PBX: Asterisk, Kamailio, Twilio, etc. * Compiling software * Web hosting control panels (including cPanel/WHM, etc) * GCP & AWS management * Networking: VPNs, VLANs, routing, switching, DHCP, PXE, BGP, etc * SRE, Devlops, monitoring & logging, etc. After running a web hosting company for 17 years and then working as a systems engineer at Google for 7 years I am now ready to help you with your internet & website infrastructure. I live in the US, work in the Eastern Time Zone and I am available via email, WhatsApp, phone or video calls. If you need a trusted partner to work with your website or infrastructure, then look no further :)

With over 10 years of IT expertise, I specialize in DevOps, Linux support, and web stack development, serving SMB and Fortune 500 company. My track record includes streamlining complex IT services for enterprises of all sizes. I standardize environments for improved software testing and continuous deployment, provisioning, managing, and scaling SaaS, AWS, Google, Azure, Docker containers, and cloud-based environments. I've led cloud migrations, deployed enterprise software, and managed multi-tenant cloud hosting platforms. Let's transform your IT landscape with cutting-edge technologies tailored to your budget. Expertise: DevOps Cloud migration Docker, Kubernetes, ECS Linux Administration Web Servers Administration, including cPanel, WHM, Plesk, Nginix, Apache, PHP, Python, MySQL, PostgreSQL and more SaaS Development Automation Web Design: E-commerce, freelancer platforms, small business websites Projects: Cloud migrations for various companies Enterprise software deployment Infrastructure setup and deployment automation Multi-tenant cloud hosting platforms Web design projects, including e-commerce and freelancer platforms

With over 18 years on Upwork/oDesk, I bring a wealth of experience as a highly skilled WordPress Developer and Front-End Web Developer. My portfolio spans from small businesses to international agencies, demonstrating my versatility and expertise in delivering robust web solutions. I specialize in: - Converting Figma/PSD/Sketch designs into custom WordPress themes, ensuring pixel-perfect accuracy and functionality. - Coding responsive websites that adapt flawlessly across smartphones, tablets, and desktops. - Converting Figma/PSD/Sketch designs to HTML/CSS website. - Help optimize to adhere to Google requirements to ensuring fast speed loading of website. - Experience with AWS (Lightsail, EC2, S3,DNS, Route 53) and other cloud platforms I am committed to delivering high-quality work and would welcome the opportunity to discuss how my skills and experience can contribute to your project's success.

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)

Cloud infrastructure that scales, deploys fast, and never breaks at 2am. 25+ years building production-grade DevOps systems for healthcare, government, and Fortune 500 - AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD. 150+ enterprise environments delivered. I design, build, and rescue DevOps platforms for organizations that can't afford downtime, slow deploys, or fragile infrastructure. When the existing setup is broken, I fix it. When there is no setup yet, I architect from scratch. Either way, the goal is a DevOps environment your engineering team can trust and your finance team can budget. ━━━ What I deliver ━━━ ▸ AWS & AWS DevOps - architecture, provisioning, cost optimization, AWS architect-level design, multi-account DevOps strategy, infrastructure as code on AWS ▸ Azure & Azure DevOps - cloud engineering services, Azure DevOps pipelines, resource management, hybrid Azure-AWS DevOps environments ▸ GCP & multi-cloud DevOps - infrastructure, cloud engineer setup, multi-cloud DevOps architecture across AWS, Azure, and GCP ▸ Kubernetes & Docker - auto-scaling clusters, container orchestration, multi-stage builds, EKS, AKS, GKE, DevOps-grade container security ▸ CI/CD pipelines - GitLab, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Jenkins, zero-downtime deployment, DevOps automation for monorepos and microservices ▸ Infrastructure as Code - Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, full DevOps-as-code practice across the stack ▸ Platform.sh and Upsun - migration, optimization, performance tuning, Diamond-tier partner with 150+ DevOps environments shipped ▸ Monitoring & observability - Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, alerting, performance dashboards, DevOps SLO tracking ▸ Security & compliance - Cloudflare, SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001 environments, DevOps hardening for regulated industries ━━━ Results ━━━ - 𝟭𝟱𝟬+ enterprise DevOps environments migrated to Platform.sh, with zero rollback incidents - Kubernetes auto-scaling CI runners for enterprise GitLab pipelines, cutting build queue time and DevOps cost in parallel - HIPAA and SOC 2 compliant DevOps infrastructure for healthcare and biotech clients - AWS DevOps infrastructure for AI/ML and data engineering workloads in life sciences and legal verticals - Three-time 𝗜𝗻𝗰. 𝟱𝟬𝟬𝟬 honoree, 𝟭𝟱𝟬+ enterprise clients, 𝟵𝟱% client retention ━━━ Why clients choose me ━━━ - 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺.𝘀𝗵 𝗗𝗶𝗮𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗱-𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿 - one of a handful of DevOps practices globally with this status - Named clients include 𝗡𝗣𝗥, 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵, 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘆𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱, 𝗔𝗶𝗿 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 - 𝟮𝟱+ years of DevOps and infrastructure work, not a recent pivot from another field - Compliance-grade DevOps experience across HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001 - regulated environments are routine, not a stretch ━━━ Who I work with ━━━ US and EU organizations running production workloads that can't tolerate failure. Typical engagements are healthcare systems, government agencies, regulated industries, AI/ML platforms, and Fortune 500 DevOps teams. If your DevOps stack handles real traffic, real compliance, or real cost pressure, that is my zone. Direct clients, in-house engineering teams, and agencies all welcome. ━━━ Tech stack ━━━ AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Helm, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Cloudflare, Platform.sh, Upsun, Linux, Bash, Python, Go, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, EKS, AKS, GKE, ECS, Lambda, Azure Functions, DevOps for PHP and WordPress workloads, DevOps for Laravel and Symfony applications, DevOps for Node.js and Python services. My process: infrastructure audit → architecture proposal → staged rollout → monitoring setup. No surprises, no 2am pages on day one. Available for both one-time DevOps projects and ongoing DevOps retainers. Message me or invite me to your job - I respond the same business day. - Adam