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Christian Etienne
DevOps & Cloud Engineer
5 years experience in IT infrastructure and systems administration, with a focus on cloud infrastructure, automation, and container orchestration. Currently managing lab environments and driving automation at UMBC Training Centers while finishing an M.S. in Software Engineering. I build in AWS, containerize with Docker and Kubernetes, and run a homelab built on Proxmox to explore various tools and technologies.
- Provision and configure lab environments for government and general technical training courses on Linux and Windows lab-machines, bare-metal servers, VirtualBox VMs, and LXC containers, using Ansible and Bash
- Manage identity, device policies, and application deployments via Entra ID and Intune
- Infrastructure and application support for ~50 staff and hundreds of government agency students across onsite and remote environments
- Contributed to team knowledge base in Confluence, documenting recurring issues to reduce repeat incidents
- Reduced open ticket backlog from ~150 to manageable levels by standardizing workflows and documenting support processes
- Infrastructure and application support for ~1,000 users across Windows, macOS, and Linux environments
- Installed, monitored, and troubleshot network infrastructure including switches and access points
- Focused on DevOps culture, CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, cloud architecture, network design, software quality assurance, and DevSecOps
- Coursework emphasized building, deploying, and securing systems end-to-end
- Covered cloud infrastructure, virtualization, networking, security, and systems administration across major cloud platforms
- Foundation for AWS, Linux, and infrastructure automation work
Serverless full-stack resume site with live visitor tracking. Built on AWS with Lambda, DynamoDB, and API Gateway. Infrastructure as code via AWS SAM, automated deploys via GitHub Actions.
Containerized microservices deployment on Kubernetes with Helm chart packaging, GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline, and EKS migration planning. Demonstrates container orchestration at scale.
Self-hosted infrastructure lab on Proxmox running containerized services via Docker Compose. Monitored with Prometheus and Grafana. YAML-driven automation for consistent, reproducible deployments.
Python command-line tool pulling live weather data from the OpenWeatherMap API. Modular architecture with cross-platform support. Built to practice clean Python and API integration patterns.