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Ernest Acheampong
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Cloud Engineer



Skills

IAC: AWS (CDK, Boto3), Terraform, Ansible

Python, Bash, Git

SQL: Postgres, Redshift

NoSQL: MongoDB

Snyk, CloudFlare Zero Trust, Veracode

Jira, Agile

   Work Experience

  • Cloud Engineer I
    New Visions for Public Schools | Oct 2021-Present

    Automated infrastructure creation with Terraform, cutting manual deployment time

    Revitalized legacy codebase to optimize AWS Systems Manager API invocations, enhancing system efficiency and reducing operational costs

    Utilized Cloudflare for Single Sign-On (SSO), DNS management, SSL security, and content delivery networks (CDNs) to host our data team's dbt docs site. The deployment was orchestrated through Terraform

    Created a comprehensive CI/CD pipeline to streamline the automation of importing, managing, and generating Jira issues based on security findings identified through Veracode agent-based scans.

    Established a centralized approach to managing infrastructure across diverse environments by leveraging Ansible.

    Engineered the object storage infrastructure for our department, formulated IAM policies, groups, and roles, configured Ec2 VMs including instance profiles, images, VPCs, and launch templates, and implemented cloud monitoring using AWS CDK. This was all orchestrated for the deployment of our product for a new client

    Drafted Business Continuity Plan and Disaster Recovery Plan as part of our audit by the NYC Dept. Of Ed.

    Created new Infrastructure Onboarding Security New Hire presentation and led training for new hires

    Migrated cron jobs to Apache Airflow to get better management and visibility of application logging and alerts

    Utilized Veracode's API to produce a software bill of materials, enhancing software engineers' insight into project dependencies. This enhancement bolsters the security of the software supply chain as well as compliance

  • Consultant
    The World Bank Group, Digital Malawi Project, Lilongwe Malawi | Feb 2021 - Nov 2021

    Provided Policy recommendations and performed a GAP Analysis & Security Audit

    Wrote Disaster Recovery Plan

   Education

  • Rutgers Univerity
    International Studies, M.P.P | May, 2012

  • Rutgers University
    Economics, BsC, | 2003-2007