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Derek B. Davis
SUMMARY
AWS Cloud Engineer/Developer with a demonstrated history of meeting deadlines for clients and executives. Expert in a variety of platforms, languages, and embedded systems. Skilled in designing resilient cost-optimized architectures and applications. Talented and meticulous professional eager to utilize professional and educational skills to illustrate the advantages of Amazon Web Services. Experienced In: AWS, EC2, S3, RDS, API Gateway, CloudFormation, Linux, Terraform, SQL, NoSQL, Git, DevOps, PowerShell, Kubernetes, Docker, Project Management, Disaster Recovery, Python, JavaScript, React, CSS, HTML, DynamoDB, etc. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (During COVID)
Udacity AWS Cloud Architect/Developer Student March 2020-Present
• Plan, design, provision, and monitor infrastructure in AWS using industry-standard and open source tools such as Terraform, Docker, CloudFront, Lambda, DynamoDB, Cognito, React, etc.
• Deployed web applications and then assessed their environment’s security posture.
• Tested the security of web environments by simulating DDOS attack scenarios and exploiting cloud configuration vulnerabilities.
• Implemented monitoring to identify insecure configurations and malicious activity using AWS Best Practices. (GuardDuty, AWS Config, AWS Inspector, AWS Security Hub)
• Designed DevSecOps Pipelines.
• Created serverless and full stack applications using AWS Lamda, NodeJs, etc. Sunshine Pools April 2018 – March 2020
AWS Cloud Developer
• Created highly available solutions for customer and company needs. Built a Multi-Availability Zone, Multi-Region database and showed how to use it in multiple geographically separate AWS regions. Also built a website hosting solution that is versioned so that any data destruction and accidents can be quickly and easily undone.
• Was highly flexible and always available to work with coworkers and company partners to troubleshoot and solve problems at any time.
City of Houston May 2012 - August 2017
Intern
• Communicated technical information, both written and verbal, effectively to clients of varying technical experience.
• Assisted with application maintenance and developed coding skills writing in Python, JavaScript, React, CSS, HTML etc.
EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS
B.S. Computer Science & Minor in Business - University of Texas San Antonio Amazon Web Services Certified Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services Certified Developer
Amazon Web Services Certified Cloud Practitioner
Udacity AWS Cloud Architect Degree
Udacity Cloud Developer Degree