Maxcell Ayim Resume 032023
Maxcell Ayim Resume 032023
Maxcell Ayim Resume 032023
Email: maxcellayim588@gmail.com
Hyattsville, Maryland.
CAREER OBJECTIVE
Dedicated Cloud Engineer/Solutions Architect with over 6 years experience with expertise in
designing and refactoring innovative and robust technological/AWS solutions. Proven success in
executing projects involving architecture and software development, implementation, testing, and
deployment. Consistently employ collaborative development methodologies to deliver
breakthrough technologies and ensure optimal performance on complex projects and technical
initiatives. Effectively align technical goals with business objectives by utilizing a mix of
research, analysis, strategic planning, cost control, and client consultations.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
• AWS Cloud: Ec2, Bastion Host, Load Balancing, EFS, VPC, RDS, S3, Glacier, IAM,
Kinesis, CloudFront, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Cloud Formation, DynamoDB, Aurora,
Memcached, Lambda, Route53, SNS, SQS, API Gateway, Elastic cache, Redshift,
Document DB, ASG, WAF, Shield, AWS Config.
• Monitoring Tools: AWS Discovery services, DR strategies, Migration Hub
• DevOps/CICD Tools: Jenkins, GitHub, Code Commit, Code Pipeline, Code Build, Code
Deploy, ECR, EKS, ECS, SSM (systems manager), Terraform, GitHub Actions, Git, Maven,
Kubernetes, Ansible and Docker.
• Networking Tools: CIDR Block range, VPC Subnets, switches, Routers, transit gateway,
VPC endpoint, VPC peering, Site to Site VPN, direct connect, VPG, NACLS, Bastion Host,
Subnetting
• Databases: MYSQL, Dynamo DB, Amazon Aurora.
• Scripting Languages: Python, YAML, JSON, BASH Scripting
• AWS Organization user management: SSO Cognito, AWS Organizations, Control Tower,
AWS manage AD, STS.
• Ticketing tools: Jira (agile/scrum methodology)
• Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, Ubuntu, Red hat, Centos
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EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS
University of BUEA
Devops Engineer
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TEKGLOBAL INC
SEP, 2016 – 2022
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• Designed self-healing architectures by leveraging autoscaling groups, load elastic load
balancers, and RDS databases.
• Leverage AWS SSM to automate OS patching
• Designed an E-commerce website using AWS Lambda, AWS API Gateway, DynamoDB,
Amazon S3, Route 53, Cloud Front and Amazon Cognito User Pool.
• Supported our CI/CD pipeline running on code pipeline and ECS.
• Employed GitHub Actions, code builds as a continuous integration tool for automation of
our daily process.
• Experience setting up and maintaining automated CICD pipelines using, maven, docker,
GitHub and Git
• Experience with Containers including tools like Docker, Kubernetes, and ECs
● Build and configure a virtual data center in the AWS Cloud to support Enterprise Data
● Managed GitHub repositories and permissions, including branching and tagging
● Using Maven as a build tool to deploy Java web applications into Tomcat (for Monolithic
applications) and Kubernetes for micro-service applications
● Work with Terraform infrastructure builds to lay the foundation for any cluster / pod
buildouts in application deliverables
● Warehouse hosting including Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Public and Private Subnets,
Security Groups (SG), Route Tables, Elastic Load Balancers ELB), Route 53.
● Advised and implemented the hosting of company applications within the Private Subnet
and access to those applications were done with the help of bastion host.
● Partook in disaster recovery scenarios for backing up data and utilizing AWS backup and
restore tools like AWS storage gateway and developed solutions around pilot light and warm
standby.
● Established VPC connectivity by making use of Transit Gateway for connecting VPCs and
VPN connection to a datacenter.
● Automate Compliance Governance by provisioning and leveraging AWS Landing Zone as
well as AWS Control Tower for centralized enterprise architecture and centralized
managing.
● Recommended AWS SSO on Control Tower for managing user access on multiple
platforms.
● Using CloudWatch, and VPC Flow Logs to monitor and retain account activity related to
actions across AWS infrastructure.
● Supported our CI/CD pipeline running on ECS.
● Used GitHub actions as a continuous integration tool for automation of our daily process.
● Build Kubernetes on AWS with route53 from scratch.
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● Set up and manage Docker containers running Go and PHP applications for deployment into
Kubernetes pods.
● Proposed and developed solutions for application deployments by making use of AWS code
pipelines as compared to native tools for cost management.
● Worked on a Database Migration Project from the client's data center to Amazon Aurora.