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About Me

Odera is an AWS Certified Developer Associate who has 5+ years of overall technology experience and 3+ years of consultation experience at one of the largest web infrastructure providers in the world, working on versatile app deployment for streamlining DevOps solutions with experience in administering F5 BIG-IP products, cloud, network support, network and application security, containerized workspaces like Docker and Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines and knowledge of typical database architectures. He also has experience in AWS, virtualization of servers, Linux Administration, NGINX server deployment, and software development using Python, .NET, and .NET Core Framework in languages such as C++/C#.

He has excellent communication skills from giving highly complex product demonstrations and presentations to both technical and non-technical audiences, technical prowess in web technologies, data processing, and finding the customer pain points for internal and external customers.

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Technical Skills include:

Solutions: Custom Solution Design, Complex Customer Facing Presentations, SFDC, Sizing, Maintaining Customer Relationships, Troubleshooting & Technical Support

Cloud: AWS Developer Associate Services (RDS, ECS, Lambda Functions, DynamoDB, API Gateway, Route53, etc.)

DevOps: CI/CD Pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CodePipeline), Ansible, bash scripting, Git, IaC (AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Terraform), APIs (REST, GraphQL)

Software Development: Python, SQL, C#, C++, HTML, CSS

Server Technologies: Networking, Network & App Security, F5 BIG-IP Products (DNS, CGNAT, LTM, Hardware), Load Balancing, Virtualization (VMWare ESXi), Cloud-Native (Docker, Kubrnetes), Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS), Performance Tuning and Monitoring

Honorable Mentions: 4G EPC & 5G Core

  • Solutions

  • DevOps

  • Software

  • Server Technologies

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Professional Experience

F5, Inc. - Richardson, TX Mar 2020 - May 2023

Associate Solutions Engineer - Service Provider

Created and assisted versatile app deployment solutions for customer use cases and met business goals using F5 product line and cloud-native technologies, including containerized deployments like Docker and Kubernetes, microservice architecture, virtualization of servers, Linux, NGINX, and private data center technologies.

  • POCs implementing CI/CD, K8s, Ansible, Docker, AWS EC2 instances, guiding digital transformation.
  • Wrote bash scripts for automating Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS) systems, integration of hardware, software, and communications in demo environments, troubleshooting in production environments.
  • Developed and deployed a sample application written in .NET Core/Typescript/Entity Framework Core using SQLite, HTML, CSS, and hosted on NGINX on VMs in my home lab, running ESXi as a Hypervisor to simulate hybrid cloud app deployment with AWS EC2 instances for performance testing and analysis.
  • Prepared and delivered technical presentations to customers and internal team members to communicate and teach about F5 solutions and related cutting-edge technology.
  • Collaborated with Tier1 – Tier 3 service providers to achieve organizational goals in application and data center infrastructure including AWS deployment, WAF, High Availability, and backup strategies.
  • Troubleshooting of Severity 1(Site Down) - 4(General Question) support cases, and recommending industry best practices
  • Established a monthly technical deep-dive webinar that drastically expanded the skillset of team on internal and industry relevant and wide-ranging topics from 5G, security, to cloud-native tools.

Space City Marketing, Inc. - Houston, TX Dec 2016 - Aug 2017

Account Executive Dec 2016 - Mar 2017
Corporate Trainer Mar 2017 - Aug 2017

Comcast Business Class - Meeting with small business owners to conduct B2B technical sales of fiber optic internet, TV, and phones including customer service/interaction, interviewing new candidates, training and mentoring new hires, performing office duties and responsibilities

PowerDB Inc. - College Station, TX Jan 2015 - Jul 2017

Software Engineering Intern

Test equipment drivers & Desktop application software development in C++/C#/VB

  • .NET API development
  • SQL database programming
  • LINQ
  • I/O and multi-threaded Programming
  • Data management/Data Processing
  • Command Prompt
  • Batch files
  • XML, CSV, Services
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Education

Bachelor of Science in Electronic Systems Engineering Technology

Texas A&M University - College Station, Texas - 2016

Pierre Catala Scholarship - awarded for leadership and academic excellence - 2014

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Certifications

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