Summary
Amara Diallo is a highly skilled Cloud Services Developer with 6 years of experience specializing in architecting, developing, and deploying scalable and resilient applications on AWS and Azure platforms. Proven expertise in designing microservices, implementing CI/CD pipelines, and automating infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools. Adept at optimizing cloud resources for performance, cost-efficiency, and operational excellence, driving significant improvements in system reliability and development velocity.
Experience
- Led the migration of critical on-premise applications to Azure, reducing operational costs by 25% and improving scalability by 40% for over 500,000 daily users.
- Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions, accelerating deployment frequency by 30% and reducing manual errors by 80%.
- Developed and maintained core microservices for a flagship AWS platform, handling over 1 million requests per day with 99.99% uptime.
- Automated provisioning and configuration of AWS resources (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda) using Python scripts and CloudFormation, decreasing setup time by 50%.
Projects
- Developed a fully serverless image processing pipeline using AWS Lambda, S3, and API Gateway, automatically resizing and watermarking uploaded images.
- Created a dashboard to aggregate and visualize cloud spending across AWS and Azure using Python, Flask, and respective cloud APIs.
- Identified potential savings of up to 15% on monthly cloud expenditure through detailed cost breakdown and resource utilization analysis.
- Integrated with Slack for daily cost alerts, improving financial visibility and accountability for resource owners.
- Authored a reusable Terraform module to provision secure and compliant Virtual Private Clouds (VPC) on AWS and Virtual Networks (VNet) on Azure.
- Enabled rapid deployment of network infrastructure, reducing setup time by 70% and ensuring adherence to security best practices.
- Incorporated security group and network ACL configurations to minimize attack surfaces and isolate sensitive workloads effectively.
Education
- Specialized in Distributed Systems and Cloud Computing, maintaining a GPA of 3.8/4.0.
- Developed a serverless event-driven architecture project using AWS Lambda and S3 for real-time data processing.
- Graduated with High Honors, focusing on Software Engineering and Algorithms.
- Awarded Dean's List for 6 consecutive semesters for academic excellence.
