Work Experience
Client Platform Engineer
Oct 2023 - Present
Crystal Equation Corporation @ Meta
Remote
Systems Administrator
Jul 2022 - Oct 2023
California State University, Fresno
Fresno, CA
Administered on-campus identity information systems customizing directory services such as LDAP, Windows
Active Directory, and Google Apps using SSH command line and GUI interface to meet the 20,000+ student and
staff
needs.
Optimized incoming ticket operations by leveraging scripting and automation techniques, resulting in a 40%
reduction in time and resources allocated to manual processes, improving efficiency and productivity.
Strengthened security measures by patching 150+ Windows and Linux machines hosted on VMware, bare-metal,
and
AWS using Microsoft SCCM and AWS Systems Manager, resulting in a 90% increase in overall system security.
Initiated the implementation of CI/CD pipelines, streamlining evaluation of AWS cloud formation templates;
achieved 95% reduction in potential errors, and maintained infrastructure consistency.
Field Operation Technician
May 2021 - Jul 2022
California State University, Fresno
Fresno, CA
Configured server-side equipment such as network switches, UPS systems, firewalls, patch panels, and
fabricated Cat 6 cables across multiple independent distribution frames throughout the campus, ensuring
optimal
network performance.
Validated network access for 500+ on-campus devices, adhering to the campus network connection policy by
activating or deactivating a data port and implementing VLAN changes.
Addressed complex networking issues, utilizing network monitoring tools and collaboration with network
engineers, resulting in improved device communication, minimized downtime, and completed 80% of incoming
tickets.
Projects
AWS Serverless CI/CD Portfolio
Built a secure static portfolio website hosted on Amazon S3, utilizing SSL certificates, HTML, CSS, and
JavaScript for front-end development, providing a minimal user experience.
Deployed a serverless architecture using Amazon DynamoDB, Lambda functions, API Gateway, Terraform, GitHub
Actions, and CI/CD pipelines, reducing deployment time by 75% and increasing website availability by 99.9%.
Three-tier WordPress Web Application
Designed a scalable and highly available WordPress web application on AWS by configuring VPC, EC2
instances,
NAT Gateways, RDS databases, Load Balancers, Route 53 DNS, Auto Scaling group, certificate manager, and EFS.
Leveraged CloudFormation, resulting in a 20% improvement in consistency and a 50% reduction in deployment
time.
Home lab server
Designed and maintained a virtualized home lab using Proxmox and TrueNAS, hosting 10+ VMs for web servers,
databases, CI/CD pipelines and network shares.
Configured a self-hosted highly available Kubernetes cluster to deploy containerized applications with 99%
uptime.
Implemented a pfSense firewall, DNS Server and VLANs for network segmentation, enhancing security and
traffic management.
Education
California State University, Fresno
Aug 2019 - May 2023
BS in Information Engineering Technology (GPA: 3.75)
Fresno, CA
Organizations/Awards: Dean’s Honors List, Magna Cum Laude
Additional
Technical:
Operating systems, VMWare, Networking, Security, Golang, Python, Bash Scripting, HTML/CSS, SQL, CI/CD
Pipeline,
AWS,
Git, Ansible, Cloudformation, Terraform
Certifications:
AWS Solutions Architect Associate (June 2023), AWS Cloud Practitioner (July 2022)