Kyle Michael - Cloud Resume Challenge

About Me

IT Technician with hands-on experience in systems support and AWS-based cloud projects. Focused on transitioning into Cloud Engineering with an emphasis on secure, scalable, and cost-efficient infrastructure.

Skills

AWS Architecture & Services: VPC (public/private subnets), EC2, Auto Scaling Groups, Application Load Balancer, RDS (Multi-AZ), EFS, S3, CloudFront, Route 53.
Serverless & Automation: AWS Lambda, CloudWatch Alarms, AWS SNS, event-driven workflows.
Security & Networking: IAM (least privilege), Security Groups, network segmentation, bastion host access, private resource isolation.
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform for provisioning repeatable, version-controlled AWS infrastructure.
DevOps & Containerization: Docker, Amazon ECR, ECS, CI/CD basics
Programming & Tooling: Python, Git & GitHub, monitoring with CloudWatch

Projects

ChatOps Automation on AWS - Built a serverless Slack-based operations tool using AWS Lambda, CloudWatch, and IAM to automate monitoring and incident response.
Highly Available AWS Architecture - Designed a multi-AZ, auto-scaling infrastructure with ALB, RDS Multi-AZ, EFS, and Terraform following AWS Reliability best practices.
Secure Application Deployment on AWS - Implemented a security first VPC architecture with public/private subnets, ALB only ingress, bastion access, and least privilege IAM.
Event Announcement System on AWS - Built a serverless notification platform using Lambda, SNS, and DynamoDB to automatically send event updates.
Infrastructure as Code with Terraform - Deployed a dynamic website using Terraform, ensuring reproducible, secure, and version-controlled cloud infrastructure.

Education

Associate of Applied Science in Networking and Cybersecurity, Grossmont College - 2021 Focus: Network Security, Ethical Hacking, and Information Assurance.
Associate of Applied Science in Information Technology, Grossmont College - 2021 Focus: Networking Fundamentals, Operating Systems, and Hardware Support.

Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
CompTIA Cloud+
CompTIA Network+
CompTIA A+