Presentation
Cloud solutions are resilient, highly available and secure.
Background
Retail (hands-on)
- Architecting for workloads running as containers (ECS, K8s), functions/Lambda, and EC2
- IaC: Terraform, CDKTF, CDK, CloudFormation - TypeScript, Python, Kotlin
- Landing Zone with AFT , Control Tower, CDKTF or Terraform
- AWS SSO with Azure Active Directory, Google Workspace or native
- AWS Security: Config, Security Hub, GuardDuty, WAF, CloudHSM, KMS, Private CA
- IoT event-driven architectures, Kinesis, SQS, Lambda, CloudWatch
- VPC Networking
- SSM Session Manager, Patch Manager and Automations
- Well-Architected framework, Disaster Recovery
- DevOps, Software development (Java/Kotlin, Python, C#)
- Atlantis, Github Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines, AWS Code services
- Observability: Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch, Humio, Athena
- Data engineering (Redshift serverless, S3, Glue jobs), GDPR processing, Big Query, Vertex AI
- K8s Admin
- Leading, mentoring
- Saved $1mil/year by migrating from Pivotal Cloud Foundry to a native AWS PaaS
(Terraform, ECS, Docker…):
- Zero downtime migration (70 apps)
- Immutable infrastructure at VPC level: whole prod environment gets destroyed and recreated upon infrastructure changes without downtime
- All infrastructure is managed through Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CDK)
- Self-service for development teams & CI/CD for immutable infrastructure
- Solutions architecture on AWS
- Fullstack development of microservices (PostgreSQL + Kotlin + Spring Boot + REST + React)
- SSO w/ SAML integration w/ AzureAD
- User import from Active Directory (LDAP) and Microsoft Graph
- User Access Management and API Management as SaaS
- Digital Experience Platform
- AWS Certified DevOps Professional & Solutions Architect Professional
- Interface to company CyberSecurity and Enterprise Architecture
- Cloud only (AWS), DevOps, Extreme/Pair Programming, Balanced Teams, Kanban
- Development of REST APIs
- Understanding and implementation of existing and new financial rules and laws – General
- and sub-ledger, Budget, Point of sale/Cash register tax laws, Remittance ISO standards etc.
- Technologies/tools: Sybase SQL Server, .NET , HTML, JavaScript, Knockout, Git, Visual Studio
- Team Services, MVC, Scrum, On-Prem.
Full study scholarship from the Norwegian Quota Programme
Master thesis topic: Indoor Navigation using Motion Tracking and Depth Perception Sensors (using
Google’s Project Tango)
Courses: Game Design, Mobile System Programming, Mobile System Project & Software Security
Language of instruction: English
Full study scholarship funded through the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ HERD (Higher
Education, Research and Development) program
Annual scholarship from the University of Prishtina
(May 2020, renewed: December 2020, July 2024)
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(April 2021, renewed: June 2024)
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