A practitioner focused on cloud infrastructure and platform work at a solid middle level. The strongest proven skill is authoring modular, tested Terraform and Kubernetes platform artifacts - exemplified by the production-environment Terraform modules with input validation and the kind-based CI that runs smoke tests and a rollback demo. What is not evidenced are remote state/locking practices, formal incident postmortems/runbooks, SLO-driven alerting, or large-scale multi-team platform design artifacts.
Automated build and deploy
CI/CD pipelines demonstrate solid static-validation, mocked planning, concurrency controls, and a kind-based smoke test with diagnostics, but lack advanced pipeline features such as reusable workflows, signed artifacts, matrix/retry strategies and remote deploy gates.
Evidence
terraform-aws-production-environment/.github/workflows/terraform.yml: static-validation job with mocked plans and TFLint/Checkov runs
terraform-docker-local-environment/.github/workflows/terraform.yml: plan job that renders and uploads a human-readable plan
kind-three-tier-platform/.github/workflows/ci.yml: kind-smoke job that runs cluster creation, smoke tests, rollback-demo and collects diagnostics
Infrastructure as Code
5/10
Managing servers with code
Infrastructure as Code is modular and tested - multiple Terraform modules, input validation, provider lockfile and tftest-backed mocked plans are present - but remote state/locking, state migration handling and explicit environment-isolation backends are not evidenced.
Evidence
terraform-aws-production-environment/modules/network/main.tf: modular VPC, subnets, NAT and flow-log resources
terraform-aws-production-environment/modules/service/main.tf: ECS/Fargate service, task definition, ALB and autoscaling policy
terraform-docker-local-environment/tests/configuration.tftest.hcl: mocked Terraform tests asserting outputs and plan behavior
Containerization & Orchestration
5/10
Working with containers
Containerization and orchestration artifacts show multi-stage Dockerfiles, non-root users, read-only filesystems, resource requests/limits, tuned probes and Pod anti-affinity - good production-minded defaults - but no evidence of operators/CRDs, GitOps automated sync, nor documented HPA/PDB policies beyond README claims.
Evidence
kind-three-tier-platform/api/Dockerfile: multi-stage build and non-root runtime user
kind-three-tier-platform/kubernetes/base/api.yaml: startup/readiness/liveness probes, podAntiAffinity, non-root securityContext and lifecycle preStop
kind-three-tier-platform/kubernetes/base/postgres.yaml: StatefulSet with volumeClaimTemplates, startupProbe and resource tuning
Observability & Monitoring
3/10
Watching system health
Observability is present at a basic level - CloudWatch log groups, awslogs container configuration and CI diagnostics collection exist - but no evidence of SLOs, burn-rate alerts, structured tracing or alert routing/inhibition policies.
Evidence
terraform-aws-production-environment/modules/service/main.tf: aws_cloudwatch_log_group and awslogs container log configuration
terraform-aws-production-environment/modules/network/main.tf: optional VPC flow logs to CloudWatch
kind-three-tier-platform/.github/workflows/ci.yml: CI step that collects kubectl logs and events for diagnostics
Reliability & Incident Response
5/10
Keeping systems up
Reliability practices are visible - controlled rollbacks demonstrated in CI, smoke tests run in ephemeral kind clusters, and pods include graceful shutdown and long startup probes - but there are no public postmortems, DR rehearsal evidence, or formal runbooks tied to incidents in code.
Evidence
kind-three-tier-platform/.github/workflows/ci.yml: kind-smoke job running smoke tests and rollback-demo
kind-three-tier-platform/kubernetes/base/api.yaml: startupProbe with long failureThreshold and lifecycle preStop sleep demonstrating graceful shutdown
Cloud & Cost Optimization
4/10
Smart use of the cloud
Cloud and cost controls are acknowledged - runtime and NAT gateway creation are opt-in, autoscaling target/policy is configured and S3 lifecycle/versioning is set - but there is no evidence of remote rightsizing metrics, spot strategies, measured cost reports or IAM least-privilege audits beyond scoped policies.
Evidence
terraform-aws-production-environment/variables.tf: enable_runtime and enable_nat_gateways are opt-in and validated
terraform-aws-production-environment/modules/service/main.tf: aws_appautoscaling_target and target-tracking scaling policy for ECS
terraform-aws-production-environment/modules/storage/main.tf: S3 lifecycle configuration and versioning