About

Edwin Waweru Maina is an experienced cloud systems engineer with a demonstrated capability in cloud computing and system administration. With over 4 years of relevant experience, he has helped design and implement multiple architectures in the cloud for multiple clients. As a cloud engineer, he is experienced in deployments, automation, and operations. Edwin is proficient in various cloud computing tools such as AWS and Huawei Cloud Services, logging and monitoring tools such as Datadog, Newrelic, Grafana, Nagios, Icinga, Zabbix, and AWS Cloudwatch, database administration using MySQL and MS SQL Server, scripting using Python, containerization services using Docker, orchestration services using Kubernetes, multiple OS platforms such as Linux, Windows, and virtual machines, and continuous integration and continuous delivery using Jenkins and Ansible. He has also worked on setting up email servers like postfix and Sendmail, administration of web servers Apache and using Email Saas (Amazon SES) for notifications, DNS setting on cloud environment using AWS Route53, and setting up SSL on cloud using Elastic Load Balancer and for domains on Apache. Edwin's core strengths lie in system deployment, orchestration, troubleshooting clusters and environments, and proactive monitoring. He is currently working as an L II Cloud Engineer NOC at Callsign, where he is responsible for deploying, managing, and operating scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems on AWS. In his past roles, Edwin has worked as a Service Cloud Engineer at Group 42, where he provided support for customer use cases with connecting data centers to G42 Cloud resources. He has also worked as a Cloud DevOps Engineer at Tracom Services Limited, where he designed and deployed enterprise-wide scalable operations on cloud platforms, implemented cost-control strategies on cloud, and worked with other DevOps engineers to manage team resources on cloud platforms like Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web services. Edwin holds a Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence from the University of York, a Bachelor's degree in Informatics from the University of Eldoret, and various certifications such as MCSE, Microsoft Certified Server Associate, Cisco certification, and Cisco CCNP certification. His tech stack includes AWS, SQL, CI/CD, Integration, Ansible, New Relic, Kubernetes, Docker, Python, MySQL, Jenkins, Web, ECS, Microservices, DevOps, QA, and infra.