CATHERINE GICHUHI
Summary
I'm a results-driven DevOps, Cloud, and Site Reliability Engineer with 5 years of experience in designing and implementing scalable infrastructure solutions. Specializing in cloud-based architectures (AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud), I optimize development pipelines, automate deployments, and ensure system reliability. Proactive in identifying and mitigating operational challenges, my collaborative approach fosters a culture of innovation. I am eager to contribute my skills to elevate organizational efficiency and exceed business objectives.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Devops Engineer (Remote)
TD Synnex, Fremont, CA
12.2019 - Current
- Optimized dust, temperature, and humidity controls for installed systems.
- Coordinated deployments of new software, feature updates, and fixes.
- Estimated work hours and tracked progress using Scrum methodology.
- Conduct regular post-mortems after incidents to identify root causes and prevent recurrence.
- Developed Terraform manifest YAML files to automate the provisioning of infrastructure on AWS, including EKS clusters, EC2 instances, IAM roles, VPCs, S3 buckets, and various other resources.
- Implemented Apache and Nginx webservers, optimizing security by configuring AWS ELB SSL to redirect all HTTP traffic to HTTPS.
Site Reliability Engineer (Remote)
ACME Technologies, San Jose, CA
06.2017 - 11.2019
- Ensured compliance with relevant industry regulations regarding data privacy standards by actively participating in audit assessments.
- Recorded daily events and activities in the site diary to evaluate processes and improve productivity.
- Contributed to the ongoing refinement of internal processes and procedures within the site reliability engineering discipline through regular reviews, updates, and knowledge sharing activities.
- Mentored junior engineers, sharing knowledge of best practices for site reliability engineering methodologies.
- Analyzed survey reports, maps, blueprints, and other topographical and geologic data to plan infrastructure and construction projects.
- Implemented cost-saving measures by optimizing resource utilization across cloud-based infrastructure environments.
Education
• Bachelors Degree - Computer Science
University of Nairobi
Graduate Professional - Diploma in DevOps And Cloud Engineering
Landmark Technologies
Skills
- Operating Systems: Redhat, CentOS, Ubuntu, and Windows
- Version Control System: Git/Github
- Build Tool: Maven
- Scripting Languages: Shell Scripting
- Application Servers: Apache Tomcat, JBoss, and WildFly
- Continuous Integration Tools: Jenkins
- Configuration Management Tools: Ansible
- Containerization Tool: Docker
- Cloud Services: AWS (EC2, S3, EBS,ELB,IAM,AMI)
- IAAC Tool: Terraform
- Monitoring Tools: Prometheus and Grafana, New Relic
- Static Code Analysis Tool: SonarQube
- Artifactory Storage: Nexus, JFrog
- Container Orchestration Tool: Kubernetes
- Ticketing Tool:Jira
- Webservers: Nginx, Apache, and HAProxy
- Compatibility Testing
- Performance Optimization
- Ractivejs
- Technical Writing
- CRM Software
- Hardware Configuration
- Process Improvement
- Cost Coding
- Databases: Oracle, MongoDB
Timeline
Devops Engineer (Remote)
TD Synnex, Fremont, CA
12.2019 - Current
Site Reliability Engineer (Remote)
ACME Technologies, San Jose, CA
06.2017 - 11.2019
• Bachelors Degree - Computer Science
University of Nairobi
Graduate Professional - Diploma in DevOps And Cloud Engineering
Landmark Technologies
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