Experienced Cloud Architect at Your Service
In my journey to becoming a Cloud Architect, I've traversed the technology world. After obtaining my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, I worked as a System Reliability Engineer (SRE) for 2 years at ADP where I created secure, reliable systems to automate the application deployment and observability process. Towards the end of my time at ADP, I enrolled in both Grad school at Georgia Tech, majoring in Computer science, as well as a Postgraduate Degree program in Cloud Computing at the University of Texas at Austin where I discovered a passion for "the cloud". Soon after this, I started my role as an Associate Solutions Architect for Amazon Web Services (AWS) where I'm currently focused on improving my cloud knowledge for the purpose of creating AWS Well-Architected cloud systems.
My career journey:
My personal life:
I grew up 30 minutes outside of Atlanta, Georgia in a town called Peachtree City before moving to Starkville, Mississippi for my undergrad degree. After graduating, I returned to Atlanta and worked for 2 years until receiving a job offer from AWS. Now, I'm happily living in Arlington, Virginia with my fiancé, Hannah, and 2 cats. I enjoy anything that involves the outdoors and love college football. On the weekends, I'm likely with Hannah in Georgetown, enjoying a Royal Palm Bagel from Call Your Mother or watching Georgia Tech win (rarely) in Bobby Dodd Stadium.
Professional Experience
Developed and monitored systems, software, and cloud architecture
Applied Dynatrace to spot negative trends and discover problem areas.
Set custom alerting system via Opsgenie to reduce MTTR.
Created Dynatrace dashboards to provide Development and SRE teams with real-time charts/graphs of product performance.
Utilized Kloud9/OneAgent to install Dynatrace agents on hosts.
Created Jenkins jobs to automate the application deployment and rollback process. Documented deployments using Service Now.
Migrated between cloud platforms. Developed a script to automate code changes. Monitored health of applications post-migration.
Used Splunk to troubleshoot applications on event-based issues.
Configured, maintained, and ensured security and compliance of Linux servers.
Created and maintained successful CI/CD process with Jenkins.
Created Event-Driven Ansibles (EDA) for automating tasks.
Implemented Real User Monitoring (RUM) in Dynatrace in conjunction with Dynatrace’s apdex scores to get a high-level overview of product performance.
Used Kloud9 to ensure compliance across 5 products. Automated patching.
Education
Georgia Institute of Technology - Master of Science, Computer Science,
2024 - 2026 (Online)
Relevant coursework:
University of Texas at Austin - Postgraduate Degree, Cloud Computing
2017 - 2022 (Starkville, MS)
Mississippi State University - Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
2024 - 2024 (Online)
ADP - System Reliability Engineer
Tech Stack
CODING LANGUAGES
TECHNOLOGIES AND FRAMEWORKS
2022 - 2024
Cloud pricing and scaling models
Distributed Computing
Infrastructure Automation
AWS global infrastructure - Regions, Availability Zones, Edge Locations
Compute - EC2, Load Balancers, AMI
Storage - EBS, S3, EFS, Volumes, Snapshots
Networking - VPC, NAT, Bastion Hosts, Route53
Identity & Access Management - Users, Roles, Policies & Permissions
Cost calculator
AWS CLI
Hybrid Cloud and networking
Azure
Topics covered so far:
Projects
Fedex "EzPST"
Mississippi State University - 2022
Mobile and web interface for FedEx shipping hubs
The mobile version gives ground employees the opportunity to scan bar codes of packages lost within shipping hubs. Then relays the information from the bar code to Data Sheets that can be viewed by managers in the Web Interface. Presented the project directly to FedEx via Zoom, implementing ideas that they liked and removing features they disliked.
Barcode scanner in use:
Movie Recommending Chatbot
Mississippi State University - 2022
AI Chat Bot that recommends movies based on user input such as genre, date of release, actors, etc
Used Flask library to collaboratively use Python, HTML, CSS, and Javascript. A chat bot interface was prepared using HTML, CSS, and Javascript. Python would take input from the chat bot and utilize a WebCrawler with Beautiful Soup applying a Depth First Search through IMDB’s database to discover movie information and output movie recommendations to another webpage.
Chatbot tutorial:
MaxChat
Personal - 2023
Social media app for pets.
Used Swift in collaboration with Google's Firestore and Firebase to create an app that would send and receive data via Firestore. Initial app creation was heavily inspired by Instagram's UI.
MaxChat demo pt. 1:
MaxChat demo pt. 2:
C++ Courses:
Data Structures, Intermediate Programming
C Courses:
Systems Programming, Operating Systems
Python Courses:
Intro Programming, Methods & Tools in SW Dev
SQL Courses:
Database Management Systems
Web Development/Front End Development Courses
Web Development
Human-Computer Interaction
Miscellaneous Courses:
Discrete Structures, Artificial Intelligence, Computing and Cyber Security, Intro to Algorithms
Certifications
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Issuer: The Linux Foundation
Issued August 2024 - Expires August 2027
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Issued July 2024 - Expires July 2026
Intro to Info Security
Relevant coursework:
Software Architecture & Design
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
HashiCorp
Issued August 2024 - Expires August 2026
Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Associate Solutions Architect
2024 - Present
Prioritizing security, reliability, performance efficiency, operational excellence, and cost-optimization in cloud architecture.
Contact me:
Let me contact you:
connorsparkman@gmail.com
404-987-2832
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