Che Alphonsius A. Ndipowa | Cell 856-203-0593 | ndipowa@yahoo.

com
Upper Marlboro, Maryland - 20901 | https://www.linkedin.com/in/chealphonsius/ | https://www.penguin.training/

SUMMARY
Sr. DevOps Engineer and Architect with programming/scripting experience, excellent communication skills and
always looking for opportunities to bring innovation through automation, monitoring and recalibration.

Experience troubleshooting, monitoring and maintaining mission critical production systems running on Linux and
Windows servers in cloud and on-premise environments (AWS, VMWare and Azure). Experience using CI/CD tools
for deployments and configuration management tools like Ansible, PowerShell and Saltstack for infrastructure
management.

Experience implementing security standards in a server environments and experience programming C#, python,
PowerShell, Java, Scala, bash, Golang.
Experience deploying Amazon API Gateway, AWS lambda, Dynamodb and S3 to expose data APIs to users.
Experience deploying and administering Docker Swarm, Docker UCP, Kubernetes, terraform, Cloudformation,
Jenkins, Git, VSTS, etc.

Experience with ML and big data with Apache Spark and Python, Amazon Sagemaker, EMR, etc.

Experience building and tearing down entire compute environments, migrating data to new environments and
switching operations to newly built environments.

Experience building, deploying and administering microservices on premises and on AWS ECS based on
containers running nodejs, java, python applications.

Experience with security protocols and processes through network monitoring, encryption tools, firewalls, PKI
services, log analysis, antivirus software and testing. e.g. Security Hub, Cloudwatch, Cloudtrail, Guard Duty,
Security groups, NACLs, Nessus etc.

Experience with RDBMS and NoSQL tools e.g. Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, MongoDB, mysql, sql server, Redis for
caching etc.
Experience designing and managing monitoring tools like zabbix, nagios, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Prometheus,
Grafana, Logstash.

I used Elasticsearch and Logstash data pipelines to process data streams and Index the data for rapid search,
alerts generation and data retrieval.

Education
1. Master of Liberal Arts in Extension studies, Information Management Systems: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2. Master of Business Administration: Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield IA.
3. Bachelor of Science in Banking and Finance: University of Buea. Buea, Cameroon.

Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect, ITIL v3, Linux Foundation Certified Sysadmin (LFCS), Certified Kubernetes
Admin, Certified Jenkins Engineer.
RECENT PROJECTS:
• I designed and implemented nagios monitoring, log aggregation, alerting and escalation at OneWeb
• I designed and implemented monitoring for docker swarm, ucp and running containers using prometheus,
node exporter, Cadvisor and grafana at OneWeb.
• Automating and testing deployments at OneWeb using ansible playbooks at OneWeb.
• CIS benchmarking and hardening of Linux servers.
• The implementation of active directory user authentication for Linux systems. This was accomplished using
bash and ansible.
 • Design and implementation of Zabbix for enterprise wide monitoring in a high available and distributed
configuration. This tool also integrates with a ticketing system for management of service events. Initially
wrote integration module in perl and later refactored it to python.
• Design and implementation of monthly SLA reports using Scala language, Apache Spark for compute and
HADOOP Distributed File System for storage. The reports are generated from the aggregation and analysis
of web logs.
• Design and implementation of a machine learning classifier that integrates with a ticketing system to
minimize turnaround time for the resolution of service outages.
• Design, development and implementation of a CMDB using asp.net MVC, jquery and entity framework.
• Recent migration of on-premise solutions to the cloud environments.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr DevOps Engineer – OneWeb (Sept. 2019- Present)

I worked as a senior DevOps engineer with the primary responsibility to build, deploy, monitor and improve very
scalable and dynamic Microservices environments. Through automation, monitoring and recalibration, we were
able to satisfy extremely high uptime and compute requirements needed to keep the OneWeb constellation of
satellites in orbit and healthy. My responsibilities also included the following: -

• Support architecture team to define, build and operate infrastructure and application automation capabilities.
• Administer Ansible infrastructure, perform maintenance and configuration and provide SME level support.
• Update system and process documentation and user guides as needed.
• Identify automation requirements and gaps in existing tooling and develop Ansible playbooks and modules to
address the gaps.
• Proficient with aws services
• Set up the environment for continuous testing and delivery of automation playbooks for IaaS provisioning and
maintenance functions.
• Support product teams in all of their post-commit needs for builds and releases and help make our CI pipelines
and releases processes as automated as possible
• Log Aggregation, analysis, and alerting using Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana
• Define infrastructure requirements as code models and also define deployment processes.
• Set up the environment for continuous testing and delivery of automation playbooks for IaaS provisioning and
maintenance functions
• Create and manage an automation platform roadmap and its implementation over time.

Systems Engineer – RR Donnelley and Sons Inc. (April. 2015 - Sept. 2019)
• Oversee all aspects of RR Donnelley’s Windows and Linux Server environments, including design, capacity
planning, high availability and reliability, performance monitoring, application deployments and security.
• Support, debugging, monitoring and administration of web and console applications in distributed server
environments.
• Linux installation, configuration and administration
• Windows installation, configuration and administration
• Orchestration with Kubernetes and Docker Swarm.
• Administration of public and private cloud environments (AWS, VMware and Azure)
• Experience working with python, bash, C#, java, PowerShell and Scala
• Experience with RDBMS and NoSQL tools e.g. Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, MongoDB, MySQL, SQL Server.
• Datacenter monitoring and troubleshooting with Zabbix, PowerShell, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Prometheus
and Kibana.
• Distributed Elastic search deployment strategies with multi-tiered architectures for search optimization.
• Design and implementation of a high available Elastic search cluster for capturing, monitoring and alerting
on server logs and event logs. Also, used a Logstash preprocessing pipeline and Kibana for visualization.
• Familiarity and use of Elastic Beanstalk, CloudFormation templates, OPSWorks, Terraform, Packer,
Vagrant, Ansible and Chef/puppet/PowerShell DSC for configuration management in previous projects.
• Scripting in PowerShell (AWS Tools for PowerShell), bash, Python (boto SDK).
 • Use of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), git and Jenkins for build automation, version control and
collaboration.
• Agile development using VSTS templates for Agile project management, Continuous Integration and Continuous
Deployment.

Software Quality Assurance and DevOps Engineer at RR Donnelley & Sons (Jan. 2012 - March 2015)
Planning & Analysis, defining testing procedures, creating and maintaining test plans and metrics, writing test
scripts & test cases, database administration, bug screening, bug triaging. Testing and deployment automation
using PowerShell and C#, execution and testing of software deployments.

Financial Analyst at EDGAR Online, Inc (Nov. 2009 – Dec 2011)

Analysis and transformation of data from Balance Sheets, Income Statements, Cash-flow Statements, Statements
of Comprehensive Income, Statements of Stockholders’ Equity and Detailed Footnotes into XBRL based on SEC
and GAAP standards.

Citigroup Accounting, Cash and Trade Operations Officer (08/07 – 11/08)

Coordinated the timely and accurate processing of transactions alongside seeking improved processing quality at
least cost.
Maintained tight monitoring and reconciliation of multiple general ledger accounts, including suspense, control and
deferred accounts and solving legacy reconciliation issues

Systems Administrator and Operations Officer Standard Chartered Bank. (04/04-08/07)

Daily review of transaction logs for suspicious activity and errors.
Troubleshooting and supporting tasks for local branch office.
Planning and Performance of periodic Business Continuity Planning (BCP) exercises Responsibility for business
process reviews and updating business procedures.
Generated cost savings through re-engineered and improved business processes.
Reconciled and monitored multiple general ledger accounts including deferred and suspense accounts and
maintaining tight control over the GL account balances.
Cash and Trade Operations Assistant Citigroup (03/2003 – 03/2004)
Customer complaints capture, data capture, tracking and resolution. Customer reception and telephone
switchboard duties Transaction booking and reporting duties
Awards:
University Senate Award for best graduating student in Banking and Finance, July 2002.
Standard Chartered Bank’s Special Outserve Award, April 2006
Citigroup Award for Exceptional Service, September 2008.
Other activities: Teaching technology and proficiency in written and spoken French.