My role involves assisting businesses in optimizing, streamlining, and automating their intricate cloud solutions, as well as IT and business processes."

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My Resume

Summary:

As a tech lead and Sr DevOps Developer with a proven track record of experience, Akim has worked with well-known companies such as Capital Rx, AkolagTech, Medidata Solutions, IEEE, The New York Times, Bloomberg, and Goldman Sachs with more than 15 years of professional experiences combined. With a strong focus on continuous integration and delivery, he has developed, designed, and operated all automation requirements and workflows to support the development/test/deployment process. 

Additionally, he has experience designing, implementing, and maintaining infrastructure using AWS and other cloud platforms and ensuring compliance with security testing and reviews. [Your name] has a solid technical background in Linux/UNIX systems administration and troubleshooting of software, network, firewall, and hardware-related issues. With excellent collaboration and leadership skills, he has worked closely with the software development team, contributed to the team’s roadmap and project planning process, and translated business objectives into action.

Work Experiences:

Sr DevOps DeveloperSr DevOps Developer

A startup company in BMP 

  • Implementing new infrastructure components using Terraform

  • Collaborating with the software development team and being that SME in configuring and modifying components that interface with the infrastructure

  • Designing, developing and operating all automation requirements and workflows to support the develop/test/deploy process

  • Continue to iterate Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery improvements and ensure efficiency and quality resiliency for all areas of SDLC.

  • Working on Continuous Integration, Continuous 

  • Providing support along with the software development team for deployed components

  • Performing security testing and reviews following internal procedures and guidelines

  • Contributing to the team’s roadmap and project planning process, partnering with stakeholders to develop business objectives and translate those into action

  • Respond to security incidents and perform recovery.

AkolagTech LLC

President and tech lead

  • Leading the managed IT solutions, hosting solutions, software, SAAS, PAAS, IAAS, IT Back-End support, virtualization, Cloud Computing, web application, Windows, and Linux/Unix Administration.

  • Leading technical efforts to deploy approved applications to the cloud platform

  • Identify and assist in developing and improving deployment. 

Medidata Solutions Inc

Staff DevOps and Release Engineer

  • Leading technical efforts to deploy approved applications to the cloud platform

  • Identify and assist in developing and improving deployment tools with automation, continuous (integration, delivery, and deployment), and process enhancements.

  • Providing architecture and cloud computing solutions by leveraging AWS (Amazon Web Service) and other cloud platforms to simplify software development and deployment

  • Standardizing environments to improve software testing and continuous deployment

IEEE

Senior Linux/UNIX Systems Administrator

  • Providing improvements in installation and configuration procedures. Managing DNS, LDAP services, NAS, SAN

  • Research and recommend innovation and, where possible automated approaches for system administration tasks. Identify strategies that leverage the resources and provide economies of scale.

The NewYork Times

Systems Administrator (Linux/Unix)

  • Worked in the DevOps Systems Administrator group supporting and maintaining Sun and Linux server farms in a 24×7 both physical and cloud hosting environments

  • environment for the New York Times website: www.nytimes.com

Bloomberg

Systems Engineer

  • Working in the Lan group as a system engineer

  • Troubleshoot any software, network, firewall, and hardware-related problems.

Hakeem/Akim: LinkedIn