Axel

from London, United Kingdom

About

Hi! I'm Axel Bah

I'm a Cloud Engineer with focus on AWS Cloud.

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Email: axel.bah@hotmail.co.uk

Phone: 07467763258

Personal Statement

A certified cloud practitioner with Generation UK&I and a high-achieving postgraduate professional with a master's in bioinformatics. One year of experience in the higher education sector cemented excellent communication skills and a desire to learn and grow. Recent experience bred a strong interest and enthusiasm for computer systems. Recently acquired formal training in cloud technologies after discovering a passion for self-study of programming languages such as Python and Linux administration. Currently committed to transitioning a broad skill set into an exciting new role as a Cloud Support Engineer.

Experience

Cloud Support Engineer Trainee - Generation UK&I

London - United Kingdom

Deployed scalable, highly available and fault-tolerant systems on AWS. Extensive knowledge of AWS services, including EC2, S3, RDS, and VPC.

Worked with multiple Linux derivatives, including Redhat and AmazonLinux2. Managed file permissions, secured and analysed log files, created bash scripts for automating file management

Utilised Python to develop a Space Invaders clone using PyGame. This required practical knowledge of variables, lists, dictionaries, functions and classes

Excelled during group projects by collaborating with learners productively

Presented research on the application of AWS services in the industry in the form of case studies

2022 - 2023

Faculty part-time Lecturer - Burnley College

Burnley - United Kingdom

Developed and delivered lectures to undergraduate students across various areas of life sciences. This experience developed a strong ability to convey complex information to diverse audiences

Ran workshops on basic Linux command-line administration, including navigating the file system, managing files, installing software and using environment management systems such as Conda to create environments for data analysis

2021 - 2022

Scientist/Data Administrator - Cignpost Diagnostics

London - United Kingdom

Performed delicate laboratory tests in a fast-paced, highly pressurised environment

Provided excellent customer service skills, with a proven track record of resolving technical issues within SLA timeframes

Prevented data breaches by configuring and implementing a laboratory information management system (LIMS) built on the SalesForce cloud platform in line with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requirements

Administered, supported and monitored lab databases by proactively resolving database issues

2020 - 2022

Projects

Cloud Resume Challenge

Amazon S3, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Route 53, AWS API Gateway, AWS SAM, AWS DynamoDB

Deploy an HTML resume as AWS S3 static website. Configure AWS CloudFront and OAI to make the S3 website URL to use HTTPS.

Configure AWS Route 53 for a custom domain name and point to the CloudFront distribution.

Developed a JavaScript snippet to call an AWS API Gateway with AWS Lambda as the backend, to retrieve and update the visitor count in a DynamoDB database.

Infrastructure as Code - Define the API resources – DynamoDB table, API Gateway and, Lambda function in an AWS SAM template

Setup CI/CD using GitHub actions for backend and front end.

Education

Master of Research: Bioinformatics - University of Liverpool

United Kingdom

2020 - 2021

Bachelor of Science: Medical Sciences - University of Central Lancashire