Malik Cameron

Playa Vista, Los Angeles, CA 🌴 🌄


Experience📝


DevOps Engineer

Penske Media Corp | 2023.08 – present




Developed an automated solution for developers to access database backups using a suite of AWS tools (Terraform - IAC ) such as Eventbridge, Lambda and S3; thus increasing developer productivity for their local environments.

Responsible for diagnosing and fixing all AWS infrastructure issues for 100+ engineers.

Architecting and maintaining CI/CD workflows using Github actions to provide access to AWS

Spearheaded initiatives for cost optimization across several AWS accounts in the organization resulting in over $100k in cost savings for the organization

Continue to refine newly adopted AWS Fargate pattern by including monitoring using New Relic, secrets rotation using 1Password and secrets manager.

Creation, administration and management of Cloud Infrastructure using AWS CLI tooling, Terraform, and Kubernetes CLI tooling (Kubectl, kubectx, k9s)


DevOps Engineer

Sparks Marketing | 2020.03 – 2023.08




Automating and bootstrapping highly available, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible

Responsible for diagnosing issues, providing technical guidance to other team members, and driving architecture decisions for business initiatives

Architecting and maintaining CI/CD workflows using Bitbucket pipelines and Github actions to test, build and release code to all environments

Implementing and securing containerized workflows using technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, AWS ECR, Artifact Registry, Snyk

Increased developer productivity by improving processes and tooling for deployment, observability, monitoring,
and alerting.

Homelab Projects


• Machine Learning Project Chocolate - Creating a ML stool predictor based on collected images of my dogs’ chocolate 😉.

• Pipeline Infrastructure Data processing/ETL - Argo Workflow engine based pipelines for video, image and audio processing.

• Edge Infrastructure SRE/IT administration of homelab - Using a Turing Pi clusterboard with K3s to administer applications deployed across Edge devices such as Nvidia Jetson, Rasberry Pi devices.

Interests


Deep Learning - CNN & RNN - For future projects that involve computer vision, object detection, music/audio generation

IoT - Distributed Workloads on edge devices.

Technology/Football - Nerd, Tinkerer, Footballer

Contact


(718-552-7953)
[email protected]

https://github.com/mcam10

https://www.linkedin.com/in/malik-cameron/

Education


Penn State University
Journalism,B.A.
2013 – 2017

Information Sciences and Technology, Minor

Skills


• Kubernetes

• Docker

• Linux

• AWS

• GCP