Joseph Mwania | Cloud Engineer

Hi, I'm Joseph Mwania.

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Fast-learner, team player, cloud professional with a growth mindset who enjoys building systems to solve problems.

About

Cloud Engineer specializing in multi cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, DigitalOcean and Linode. Automating the provisioning, deployment, orchestration and configuration management of cloud infrastructure and applications with Terraform, Kubernetes and Ansible. Hands-on experience in designing well-architected distributed multi-tier systems that are scalable, resilient, fault-tolerant and cost optimized.

Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP, DigitalOcean, Linode
Operating Systems: Linux (Debian and RHEL), Mac OS, MS-Windows
IaC: Terraform, Ansible, Vagrant
Libraries: Boto3, NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn
Container Tools: Docker, Kubernetes (Cluster Management), Docker Compose
Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog
Other Tools & Technologies: Git, Heroku, Python, Bash, Jenkins, Nexus, SQL, Couchbase, Jira, Zendesk, PagerDuty

Certifications

AWS

AWS re/Start

Certifications

AWS re/Start Graduate
AWS Cloud Practitioner
AWS SysOps Administrator
AWS Solutions Architect

Azure

Microsoft Azure Training

Certifications

Azure Fundamentals
Azure Data Fundamentals
Azure AI Fundamentals

Projects

                
Terraform in AWS
                  System Design in AWS using Terraform
                
AccomplishmentsTools: Terraform, Linux, AWS, Git, FlowChart Maker
Terraform is an open source IaC tool developed by HarshiCorp 
Terraform enables DevOps engineers to programmatically provision infrastructure
Provision resources in AWS Cloud platform

Docker Container with Terraform
                  Docker Container with Terraform
                
AccomplishmentsTools: Linux, Terraform, Docker, AWS, Git
Docker is an open source containerization platform
Docker enables developers to package applications into containers
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system
Terraform is an open source IaC tool developed by HarshiCorp

Deploy to Kubernetes
                  Deploying Images to Kubernetes from Private Docker Repository
                
AccomplishmentsTools: Kubernetes, AWS ECR, Linux, Git
Deploy images from a a private Docker Repo (ECR) to Kubernetes
Kubernetes is a reliable container cluster management tool

Ansible Integration in Jenkins
                  Ansible integration with Jenkins to deploy a Java-Maven application
                
AccomplishmentsTools: Docker, Ansible, Jenkins, AWS, DigitalOcean Linux, Git
Integration of Ansible to Jenkins pipeline for a Java-Maven app deployment
Automating the workflow with Ansible to a Docker container in an AWS EC2 instance

Ansible Automation in Azure & DigitalOcean
                  Automating end-to-end deployment of a NodeJS application in AWS and Digital Ocean
                
AccomplishmentsTools: NodeJS, Ansible, DigitalOcean, Azure, Linux, Terminal
Install node and npm dependencies in local dev environment
Write Ansible playbooks to enable deployment and link project folder
View the links with the two projects

App Deployment with Kubernetes
                  An end-to-end Application Deployment with Kubernetes
                
AccomplishmentsTools: Kubernetes, Docker, MongoDB, Mongo Express, Linux, NodeJS, Git
Local development

Deploy Nginx using Terraform in EKS
                  Automate the provisioning of an EKS cluster with Terraform
                
AccomplishmentsTools: Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS EKS, Linux, Bash
Use pre-baked Terraform modules to create infra and EKS in AWS
Deploy Nginx server in EKS cluster

Monitoring With Prometheus & Grafana
                  Monitoring Kubernetes With Prometheus & Grafana
                
AccomplishmentsTools: Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, Linux, Bash
Create visualizations to collect metrics for Kubernetes clusters
Access Prometheus and Grafana UI's to access metrics

Automation in AWS & DigitalOcean
                  Automation in AWS & DigitalOcean with Ansible, Jenkins & Terraform
                
AccomplishmentsTools: Ansible, Docker, Jenkins, Terraform, AWS, DigitalOcean, Linux
Create servers in DigitalOcean and AWS to be used by Ansible inventory
Build Docker Java-Maven app image, automating with Jenkins and deploy in a private DockerHub repo.
Automating with Ansible, create AWS infra and deploy PHP and MySQL by use of Docker-compose 

Nexus Automation with Ansible
                Automating Nexus Deployment with Ansible
              
AccomplishmentsTools: Ansible, Java, Linux
Automate the download of OpenJDK and Nexus tarball and unpack
Perform ad-hoc system admin' tasks with playbooks to create permissions and run installations 
NOT the recommended approach to achieve this, Docker is the easiest way.

Skills

Operating Systems

Linux

MacOS

Windows

Tech Stacks and Tools

Docker

Terraform

Python

AWS

Azure

Ansible

Kubernetes

Git

Terminal

GCP

Couchbase

Jira

Monitoring

Prometheus

Grafana

DataDog

Libraries

Boto3

Numpy

Matplotlib

Pandas

Seaborn

Other

DigitalOcean

Linode

Jenkins

Tutorials

                
Ruby on Rails
                  Ruby on rails Tutorials
                
AccomplishmentsTools: Ruby on Rails, Linux, SQL, Git
Tutorials that I made when I was a TA for Johns Hopkins University at the Coursera platform
I've created three GitHub links for each module

Deploy Azure Static App
                  Introducing Azure Devops
                
AccomplishmentsTools: Linux, Azure Git
Introducing Azure Pipelines
Create Build and Release pipelines in Azure
Create a static web app in Azure

Developing with Docker
                  Developing web apps with Docker
                
AccomplishmentsTools: Docker, MongoDB, Mongo-Express, Linux, AWS
Introducing Containers ~ Docker
Developing with Docker ~ Docker compose
Private Docker repos ~ AWS ECR
Application Deployment in AWS using Docker images

Contact

+447501663926

josembi@gmail.com

https://github.com/appwebtech

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmmwania/