David J.
Shourabi Porcel
Hamburg
Germany
1997
certifications
languages
- Spanish
- English
- German
software development & delivery • Linux • AWS
expertise
career
| Linux Administrator | Hanseatic Bank | |
| freelancer | various customers | |
| AWS Cloud Engineer | evoila | |
| Systems Engineer | Smaato | |
| Junior Systems Engineer | Smaato | |
| Systems Engineer Assistant | Smaato | |
| Working student | Sartorius Mechatronics T&H |
education
| Bachelor of Computer Science | Technische Universität Hamburg | |
| Bachelor of Philosophy | Universidad de Granada |
career
Linux Administrator
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Hamburg, Germany
- maintained Linux systems
- codified Linux infrastructure with Ansible
- set up a SIEM system to gather and forward logs to Société Générale’s SOC
- software archæology
freelancer
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@ various customers
remote
- developed a cost-saving proof of concept centered around a custom Linux distro for a medium-sized business with a sizable compute footprint on the AWS cloud
- improved software supply chain security at a software consulting firm with GnuPG and YubiKeys and standard operating procedures around key generation, storage, usage, renewal and revocation
- made document management easier for a small business by deploying Paperless-ngx
AWS Cloud Engineer
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@ evoila
remote
- built AWS landing zones and AWS cloud applications for customers
- developed a framework to manage AWS landing zones as code
- migrated customer workloads into the AWS cloud
- improved reproducibility and software supply chain security for customers
- established evoila as an AWS partner in the APN by getting it validated within the Service Delivery program
- developed standard operating procedures around automation, data protection, monitoring, incident handling, networking and security in the AWS cloud
- developed and marketed AWS offerings
career
Systems Engineer
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@ Smaato
Hamburg, Germany
- created a Docker-based open source solution to build and check Debian packages for different Debian and Ubuntu releases
- migrated workloads from VMs on AWS EC2 to Kubernetes on AWS EKS
- improved Kubernetes application reliability by implementing and promoting best practices around service containerization
- prepared migration from monolithic AWS account to a landing zone
- on-call duty for Linux systems & AWS cloud processes
Junior Systems Engineer
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@ Smaato
Hamburg, Germany
- reduced AWS cloud expenditure and provided insight into costs with a tagging & compliance solution
- sped up software development and promoted DevOps with a new AWS cloud security model
- managed & monitored Linux servers on the AWS cloud
- developed Linux system software
- packaged internal & third-party software for Ubuntu
- operated, secured and monitored cloud networks
Systems Engineer Assistant
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@ Smaato
Hamburg, Germany
- developed a golden image for all VMs on the AWS cloud
- automated VM image builds
- built a test framework for VM images
- set up AWS-cloud-based Debian repositories for internal & third-party packages in China, Europe, North America & South East Asia
- created a CI/CD system to build, check and deploy Debian source & binary packages
- built and managed AWS infrastructure as code
work
Terraform configuration to manage my Cloudflare account, including DNS, DNSSEC and Web Key Directory
startup & shutdown scripts for command-line shells that do not implement the XDG Base Directory specification