Earl Chough

About

Career driven professional with strong technical and problem-solving skills. Experienced, productive and reliable team mate that can provide value in any environment.

Cloud & DevOps Engineer

Multi Cloud certified in AWS and Azure with aspirations to become a Fullstack Software Engineer.

Website: www.earlchough.com
College: Western Governors University
City: Chicago, USA

Age: 27
Degree: BS in Cloud Computing - Multi-Cloud
Email: earlchough@gmail.com

I am a Multi-Cloud certified Cloud and DevOps Engineer with years of IT Operations experience. My current passion is understanding Fullstack development and applying these practices for myself. This website and its development serves as evidence for my understanding and real world application of Fullstack, DevOps, and Cloud development as well as showcasing my professional skills and achievements. Checkout my dev.to blog post where I go into detail about how I created my website, what I used, and every step of the Cloud Resume Challenge.

Certifications

Here are certifications I have achieved. I am currently working on the Terraform Associate, Azure Developer, and Azure DevOps Professional certifications. My future goals are to get every single AWS certification. For a full list please check my Linkedin Profile.

All
Cloud
Operations

Skills

Azure

AWS

Python

Powershell

Terraform

HTML

Javascript

Infrastructure as Code

Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

Golang

JSON

YAML

Kubernetes

Linux

Serverless Application Model

Databases

Resume

Sumary

Earl Chough

Innovative and deadline-driven Cloud Engineer with 4+ years of experience designing and developing Cloud and IT infrastructure following best practices for secure and scalable environments.

earlchough@gmail.com

Education

Bachelor of Science & Cloud Computing - Multi Cloud

2019 - 2022

Western Governors University, Salt Lake City, Utah

At WGU I studied Cloud Computing and achieved my Bachelors of Science as well as the following certifications within the span of 15 months:

AWS Solutions Architect Associate
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate, Azure Fundamentals
CompTIA Secure Cloud Professional – CSCP, Cloud Admin Professional – CCAP, Secure Infrastructure Specialist – CSIS, IT Operations Specialist – CIOS, A+, Security+, Cloud Essentials+, Cloud+, Project+
Linux Professional Institute LE-1: Linux Essentials
ITIL® Foundation Certification ITIL4

Professional Experience

Cloud Engineer

2021 - Present

Impact Networking

Employ terraform infrastructure as code to architect Cloud application migration from Mendix to Azure
Created CI/CD pipelines using Github Actions and Azure DevOps to develop and standardize release pipelines.
Manage and administer the cloud presence and hybrid infrastructure to lead the continual change for cloud integration.
Architect DevOps to implement Azure Kubernetes service containerization solution for developer environment.
Experience with Docker, Helm, Python, Bash, powershell, NGINX, SQL to architect Kubernetes and related containerized environment.
Perform Cloud infrastructure cost optimization and governance following guidelines and best practices to reduce Cloud budget by over $15k per month.
Implemented Cloud security architecture best practices to improve security posture and Azure security score.
Created change management automation system using PowerApps, Power Automate, and HTML for database creation, management approval and email auto generation.
Develop scripts to automate the deployment of resource stacks and associated configurations.
Build out, implement, and manage both development and production cloud environments - including Azure cloud computing, Azure Storage, and Office 365 productivity environments.
Regularly evaluate cloud applications, integrations, and software with focus on security.
Respond to technical issues in a professional and timely manner both in-person and via phone/email.