ClickASnap

ClickASnap is a photo-sharing platform where users earn money from image views, retain full rights to their photos, and can sell them as digital or physical products. As a DevOps Engineer and Solutions Architect I have: • Designed and deployed scalable infrastructure with AWS CDK, managing stack dependencies and supporting multiple environments (DEV, UAT, BETA, PROD) • Reviewed and resized compute instance classes to optimize costs and performance; Achieved $10k/mo cost savings • Implemented image search by deploying AI model to AWS Sagemaker and integrating it into the backend services • Enhanced application security by utilizing private VPC subnets, security groups, and IAM roles and policies • Implemented AWS ECS setup for hosting Django, Celery and NextJS services including auto-scaling policies and real-time monitoring • Built a monitoring solution combining CloudWatch, SNS, and Lambda to send human-readable alerts to Slack for threshold breaches • Integrated tracing tools like AWS X-Ray and Sentry; Performed benchmarking of the app • Resolved performance bottlenecks like N+1 problem by parallelizing workloads and optimizing DB queries • Setup CI/CD pipelines for Django, Celery and NextJS services using AWS CodePipeline

OnTheSnow

OnTheSnow.com is a leading platform providing real-time snow reports, weather forecasts, and resort information for over 4000 ski areas worldwide. As a Primary Backend Engineer I have: • Designed and implemented Serverless ETL pipelines with AWS Step Functions and Lambda capable of ingesting hundreds of GBs of data and processing 250k images daily • Optimized the ETL pipelines and resolved bottlenecks leading to 60% performance improvements and 50% cost savings • Deployed real-time monitoring with alarms and metrics, integrated with PagerDuty for instant incident response • Used AWS CloudFormation and SAM to manage and scale the cloud infrastructure in DEV, UAT and Production environments • Implemented data quality dashboards with Retool

WAMSport

• Established the requirements for the application; • Developed architecture of the application; • Designed PostgreSQL Database schema; • Setup a CI/CD flow to deploy the application to AWS EC2 and RDS; • Implemented back end of the application from scratch using Python, Django. Key achievement: created an MVP of the product.