Devin Almonor

CONTACT

Tel: 347-***-****

jobapplicationsdevina@g

mail.com

EDUCATION

M.S. in Machine Learning

and Artificial Intelligence,

Colorado State University,

Fort Collins, CO

****-****

B.S. in Computer Science,

Xavier University of

Louisiana, LA 2016-2019

Minor in French

CERTIFICATION(S)

AWS Certified Cloud

Practitioner Certification

(2021-2024)

SAP BI Cloud

Certification

(2019-Present)

Unix Essential Training

Certification

(2020-Present)

IoT Foundations:

Operating Systems

Fundamentals

Certification

(2019-Present)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

COX AUTOMOTIVE (Manheim) May 2021– Present

AWS Python Developer

• Utilizing AWS and Python to develop the software at Manheim Cox Automotive

• Creating AWS Resources, such as Cloud Watch alarms, AWS Chatbot, and AWS SNS for

“error-handling” logic to Eventer Consumer for Eventer Messages

• Refactoring Cloud Formation template to create an SQS Queue Policy, update SNS Permissions and create Subscription resources in the Orbit + Eventer

• Architected AWS cloud network and services solutions.

• Designed fault-tolerant architecture to achieve a resilient environment for the clients.

• Integrated security best practices to harden the client environment by identifying the asset to be protected, taking proactive active actions to protect assets, and detecting security breaching.

• Recommended solutions to achieve cost savings for the client by using Lambda, for instance, scheduler, auto-scaling groups for elasticity, life cycle manager, and right sizing.

• Designed disaster recovery solution based on client’s RTO and RPO by leveraging DLM, Multi-AZ deployments and cross-region replication.

• Review environments to validate the architecture, security, and compliance requirements.

• Leverage enterprise solutions to provide clients governance at scale using, AWS Config, and AWS organization

• Managed provisioning of AWS infrastructures using both Terraform and CloudFormation

• Design for high availability and business continuity using self-healing-based architectures, fail-over routing policies, multi-AZ deployment of EC2 instances, ELB health checks, Auto Scaling, and other disaster recovery models.

• Designed and implemented for elasticity and scalability using ElastiCache, CloudFront – Edge locations, RDS (read replicas, instance sizes)

• Implemented Jenkins, GitHub, and Git for version control, code build, testing and release, and CI/CD.

Purpose

An AWS Certified Cloud Professional having expertise in cloud deployment, creation, and security. Dedicated in using the AWS Cloud and AI/ML [Python] to develop applications, programs, and services that serve humanity. Jira Learning Certification

(2020-Present)

Google Certified

Professional IT Personnel

Certification

(2020 – Present)

CompTIA Security+

Certification (2023 -2026)

SKILLS

AWS:

VPC

EC2 (Auto Scaling)

Systems Manager

EFS

S3

RDS

CDN

Elastic Cache

Elastic Search

Route 53 DNS

IAM Management

AWS Migration

SNS

CloudWatch

AWS CLI

Code Commit

Code Pipeline

Lambda

CloudFormation

ALKS

INFINITIVE INC Mar 2020 – Apr 2021

The Points Guy - Tactical Design – Data Engineer

• Responsible for launching Amazon EC2 instances using Amazon web services and configuring launched instances with respect to specific applications and regions.

• Installed applications on AWS EC2 instances and configured the storage on S3 buckets. Responsible for S3 buckets, bucket policies and IAM role-based policies creation.

• Responsible for creating EBS volumes and building servers using importing volumes. Capital One – AWS High-Performance Low Latency Data Store – Scala Data Engineer

• Spearheaded the creation of 5 Chamber of Secrets (Lockboxes) to store SSL Certifications, API Keys, Database credentials, System account information, and private key files

• Reprogrammed Scala code

• Written Chamber of Secrets credentials to their respective lockboxes, for development and production stages

• Curled commands in the HashiCorp Vault CLI to retrieve lockbox credentials

• Reprogrammed and pushed Scala code to Capital One GitHub Repository, using Git, IntelliJ, and VSCode, to be merged and to be used in production

• Utilized metrics services, such as New Relic, to monitor and to debug Scala code to be used in production

• Utilized Jira to complete stories and epics to facilitate bi-weekly sprints

• Created Splunk service to ensure security and scalability of Capital One OneStream resources

• Managed website traffic and flow with the use of Amazon EC2 with Elastic Load Balancer and auto-scaling

• Employed Amazon DynamoDB for storage for low latency data storage

• Evaluated AWS Lambda, AWS Fargate, RESTFUL APIs, and GraphQL API for performance in fetching data

• Built representative serverless GraphQL API endpoint gateways

• Amazon CloudFormation and Amazon VPC to optimize the outcome of Amazon S3. Internal Tech Practice – Amazon Workspaces – AWS Developer

• Actualized 2 AWS Workspaces in SQL and Python, respectively to enhance SWE literacy among Infinitivians (Employees at Infinitive)

• Utilized Linux EC2 Instances, Jupyter Notebook, and VS Code to create the Python workspace

• Utilized the SQLite Engine, Notepad++. And SQL LinkedIn learning modules to enhance learning

Internal Tech Practice – Amazon Apache Airflow – AWS Developer

• Created 50+ AWS Airflow Pipelines to automate the workflow of internal members

• Utilized Python scripts, AWS S3 buckets, AWS Glue, Microsoft SQL server to implement the automated workflows

Programming

Languages:

Python (NumPy,

Pandas)

Java/JavaScript

Scala

SQL

Frameworks:

Spring Boot(J)

React(JS)

Django(Python)

TensorFlow(Pytho

n)

NodeJS(JS)

PyTorch(Python)

PostgreSQL(SQL)

DevOps Tools:

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Code Commit

Code Pipeline,

Git

GitHub

Gitlab

Jenkins,

Docker

JIRA

PER SCHOLAS ACADEMY Nov 2016 – Mar 2020

Frontend Engineer

• Built a Sonic the Hedgehog Trivia, using CSS to beautify the UI with Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Theme. Created a 7-Frame sprite sheet of Sonic and a 98-fram sprite sheet of Gold Rings and implemented the CSS function, Steps, Sonic appears to run to collect the rotation Gold rings, infinitely, in a 2-dimensional plane.

• Utilized JS/jQuery to implement functionality for the game. The Sonic Trivia Questions, Back/Forward buttons, Radio Inputs (Answer Choices), and Score all have their respective functions that bring the Sonic Trivia Game, together.

• Created an Assassin’s Creed API, using ReactJS (JS, CSS, HTML) to provide the functionality, the design, and the browser capability to the project application. The backdrop hue is RGB (8,8,8), which is vampire black, with the gilded Egyptian-inspired insignia of the Eye of Horus in the foreground.

• WebP images of the Assassin’s Creed protagonists are displayed in V formation, from the first to last Assassin. Utilized PostgreSQL/ Spring Boot to create an API database of the Assassin’s information, like the name, motto, date of birth and death, and the country of occupation

XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA COMPUTER SCIENCE [Python]

• Spearheaded the creation of a URL Shortener with FastAPI and Python [2016]

• The URL for the Computers Science Website was too long; for an in-class project, it was decided to shorten the URL

• Created a Chatbot [2017]

• Built a Graphical User Interface Desktop Calculator w/ Tkinter, wxPython, PyQt, PySide [2018]

• Assembled a Flashcards App with Django and SQLite Database [2018]

• Made a Personal Diary with Django and Python [2018]

• Constructed a Gradebook with Pandas [2018]

• Built a File Rename Tool with Python PyQt [2019] COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

/dev/color member council/facilitator [2022 – present]

• Co-leading a group of 10 software engineers, making sure that their respective goals are being met.

• Working closely with the CEO of /dev/color to improve the program, recruitment efforts, and overall retention of black technologist in the organization A.I. For Anyone Blog Writer [2022– present]

• Written several blogs titled, “New York (AI Audit) City: NYC’s AI Bias Law”, Technology is Not Neutral: A Short Guide to Technology Ethics summaries”, and

“Ethical Reads” [https://www.aiforanyone.org/blog] AWS All Builders Grant Participant [2022– present]

• Awarded an all-expense paid trip to AWS re:Invent 2022, in which I learned all about the new AWS services and refined my AWS skills

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