Hepher Ossounga

Education

Expected Graduation: May 2025

Texas Tech University | Lubbock, TX

May 2023 – Present

Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines for developers, leveraging Jenkins, Terraform, and Ansible to automate infrastructure provisioning and streamline deployments.
Utilized Docker and Kubernetes for containerized application management, with Helm for deployment automation.
Integrated Trivy for container image vulnerability scanning and SonarQube for static code analysis of Java applications.

Nov 2024 – Dec 2024

Collaborated with developers on Lambda, while handling API Gateway and DynamoDB setup.
Implemented IAM roles to manage permissions and ensure secure access to AWS resources.
Integrated CloudFront for content delivery and Route 53 for DNS management to optimize performance and scalability.
Configured AWS Certificate Manager to provision and manage SSL/TLS certificates for secure HTTPS communication.
Utilized CloudWatch for real-time monitoring and logging, and SNS for automated notifications.

Feb 2024 – Apr 2024

Deployed a full-stack application with a React frontend, Django Rest Framework backend, and Postgres database.
Implemented CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and managed GitOps workflows using ArgoCD for automated deployments.
Set up monitoring and observability with Prometheus and Grafana to ensure system performance and reliability.

Jan 2024 – Mar 2024

Designed and deployed a highly available and scalable 2-tier architecture on AWS using Terraform custom modules.
Configured Amazon VPC to provide a secure private network and deployed Amazon EC2 instances within an Auto Scaling Group for dynamic scalability.
Configured Amazon S3 for backend Terraform state file storage with versioning enabled and Amazon DynamoDB for state-locking.
Implemented Amazon RDS for relational database storage.