Abdi Jama Arale

DevOps Engineer | Helping enterprises build production-grade cloud infrastructure | ML & AI Enthusiast

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AWS

SAA-C03 & Terraform Certified

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80%

Less Infra Maintenance

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70%

Faster CI/CD Deployments

Quick Info

  • Experience3+ Years
  • FocusTerraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD
  • SpecializationAWS

Experience

Aug 2025 – Jun 2026

AWS Cloud Engineer

Octelligence Inc. · Ottawa, ON
  • Provisioned and maintained AWS cloud infrastructure for a SaaS platform serving private companies and law firms using Terraform modules and Kubernetes on EKS to keep the platform available and audit-ready for clients.
  • Built GitHub Actions and ArgoCD CI/CD pipelines to automatically build, test, and deploy application updates to AWS, reducing deployment time by eliminating manual steps and giving the team faster release cycles.
  • Managed containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes on Amazon EKS by writing Helm charts to deploy and scale microservices, improving uptime and making it easier to recover from failures.
  • Wrote Terraform modules to automate the provisioning of AWS environments so that new infrastructure could be created consistently and quickly, reducing the time engineers spent on manual cloud setup tasks.
  • Reduced AWS cloud costs by reviewing EC2 instance sizes, setting up auto-scaling, and removing unused resources so the company only paid for what it actually needed.
  • Secured cloud environments by setting up IAM roles, VPC security groups, and HashiCorp Vault for secrets management to make sure only the right people and services had access to sensitive infrastructure.
Jul 2023 – Mar 2025

DevOps Engineer

Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) · Toronto, ON
  • Designed and built AWS cloud infrastructure including multi-account Landing Zones for Canada's Border Services Agency by using Terraform to provision environments across dev, staging, production, and disaster recovery.
  • Wrote Terraform modules from scratch to provision scalable AWS environments across multiple availability zones, which reduced the time the team spent on infrastructure maintenance by 80%.
  • Built GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines to automate application builds, testing, and deployments from development to production, cutting manual deployment work by 70%.
  • Managed containerized workloads on Amazon EKS by writing Helm charts and Kubernetes manifests to deploy and scale microservices, keeping government production systems available.
  • Monitored infrastructure performance using Prometheus and Grafana by setting up dashboards and alert rules so the team could detect and fix problems before they affected users.
  • Lowered AWS cloud costs by rightsizing EC2 instances, adding auto-scaling policies, and cleaning up unused resources to cut the monthly infrastructure bill.
Sep 2023 – Feb 2024

AWS Cloud Engineer

Softchoice · Toronto, ON
  • Worked with AWS specialists and sales teams to design cloud migration solutions for clients by turning their technical requirements into scalable AWS architectures that matched their business goals.
  • Automated AWS infrastructure for client environments by writing Terraform modules and Bash scripts to provision and configure cloud resources, reducing manual setup time and speeding up deployments.
  • Integrated Trivy, SonarQube, and HashiCorp Vault into GitHub Actions pipelines to automatically scan containers, analyze code, and manage secrets before anything reached production.
  • Delivered 40+ hours of training and written documentation to client teams so they could manage their own production deployments independently after handoff, reducing the need for ongoing support.

Featured Projects

01

Nexacore IAM Security Project

✓ Completed

Implemented secure IAM infrastructure for a startup that was sharing AWS root account credentials, establishing role-based access control (RBAC) and eliminating critical security vulnerabilities.

TerraformAWS IAMCloudTrail
View on GitHub →
02

ServiceHub AWS Terraform

✓ Completed

Reusable Terraform framework for deploying ServiceHub on AWS across multiple environments, with modular design, workspace isolation, encrypted private subnets, multi-AZ high availability, auto-scaling, and audit logging.

TerraformAWSShell
View on GitHub →
03

AWS Portfolio Website

✓ Completed

This personal portfolio site, built to showcase cloud engineering experience, projects, and certifications, deployed live on AWS.

Next.jsReactTypeScript
View Live Site →View Code →

Technical Skills

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Cloud & AWS

  • Amazon VPC
  • AWS IAM
  • Amazon EC2
  • Amazon S3
  • Amazon RDS
  • Amazon DynamoDB
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Infrastructure as Code

  • Terraform
  • AWS CDK
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Amazon EKS
  • Helm
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CI/CD & Automation

  • Git & GitHub
  • GitHub Actions
  • ArgoCD
  • Jenkins
  • Python & Bash Scripting
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Security & Best Practices

  • DevSecOps
  • IAM Roles & Policies
  • HashiCorp Vault
  • Secrets Management
  • SonarQube & Trivy
  • Principle of Least Privilege

Education & Certifications

Get In Touch

Let's Connect

Open to AWS cloud engineering and DevOps opportunities. If you're looking for someone experienced with Terraform, Kubernetes, and CI/CD automation, I'd love to hear from you.

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Email

abdijarale@gmail.com

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LinkedIn

linkedin.com/in/abdijarale

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GitHub

github.com/abdiarale86