Resume

WORK EXPERIENCE

Cloud & System Administrator | Bizanosa Aug 2017 to date

  • Successfully provisioned over 200 secure WordPress production instances on AWS, Azure and other cloud providers like DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr and Hetzner. Managed deployments in vanilla setup with Nginx and Apache or used control panels such as cPanel, Directadmin, HestiaCP, Cyberpanel, Ispmanager, Virtualmin and others. Also deployed Python, Django and NodeJS containers using docker .
  • Managed Linux Vms such as Ubuntu, Debian and CentOS, achieving zero to minimal downtime for over half a decade. Focused on improving server security and availability by setting up Fail2ban,CSF, UFW, Iptables, SSH security, Cloudflare , Crowdsec, 2FA, Nginx proxies and load balancers.
  • Reduced security incidents with a high success rate by training clients on computer security protocols and procedures.
  • Optimized cloud budgets by utilizing the most efficient server resource deployments and strategized for auto-scaling in the cloud.
  • Provided technical support to end users/teams, including successfully troubleshooting Linux server issues, WordPress issues, providing working solutions and implementing disaster recovery measures such as back up, scalability and high availability.
  • Installed and set-up of control panels such as VestaCP, HestiaCP, Virtualmin, CyberPanel, ISPConfig, DirectAdmin & cPanel on new Linux Vms. This enabled them to host multiple websites in one instance due to budget constraints. Put in place disaster recovery methods using automatic server backups on affordable cloud storage options such as Backblaze, S3, S3-Glacier and Dropbox.
  • Created virtual environments using Vmware, Hyper-V, Virtualbox, Vagrant and QEMU/KVM on Bare metal servers .

YouTube Content Creator 2016 to date

  • Contributes to the tech community by continuously creating in-depth video tutorials on helpful topics covering Cloud platforms, Linux , Control panels, K8s, Ansible, and Docker. Showcasing a commitment to continuous learning and training capability.
  • Serves as a dedicated advocate for open-source projects, by consistently delivering the most helpful step-by-step guides, hence facilitating continuous adoption of free web panels by new users.

Freelance Web Support / System Administrator 2016 to 2017

  • Built, designed and fixed website and server hosting solutions for over 50 different clients.

Business Operations Manager | Techriffs Solutions 2013 to 2016

  • Spearheaded day-to-day business operations by interacting with clients to understand and translate their requirements and foster positive client relationships.
  • Orchestrated and managed a team of web developers and designers, optimizing employee performance and achieving a project success rate of 100%.
  • Successfully built and launched 10 WordPress sites, 2 Laravel web apps, and engineered web hosting solutions for all the projects.

System Admin Intern | Nairobi Hospital Feb 2012 to June 2012

  • Enabled smooth operations for the staff by fixing computer hardware, networking and software issues. Also worked on user administration, enabling users to get back to their systems expeditiously.

CERTIFICATIONS

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
  • KASNEB Certified Public Accountants (CPA) 1

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science

Computer Science

University of Eldoret 2014

SKILLS

AWS EC2, VPC, IAM, RDS, CloudFront, Cloudformation, ELB, SES, S3, Windows, Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, HTML, CSS, JS, Bootstrap, Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker, Python, Django, Javascript, Git, Oracle Virtualbox, Vagrant, Bash, Shell, SQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Fail2ban, Crowdsec, Cloudflare, Jenkins, CI/CD Pipeline, Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana, SSH, Nginx, Nginx Unit, Apache, Litespeed, Project Management, Communication skills, Collaboration skills, Presentation skills, Customer service, Training, Technical Blogging, Copywriting, YouTube video making skills,Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), Virtualization, Containers, DNS, Cloud networking, Computer hardware, PC assembly, Agile, Presentation, communication & demonstration, data research.

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