avolent.io

About

Hi, my name is Will! This is my personal website where I will keep track of all my projects, things i've learnt and a little bit about me.

Yearly Learnings

• [ ] - GKE: Google Kubernetes Engine
• [ ] - CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator
• [X] - Kubernetes External Secrets Manager
• [X] - ArgoCD
• [X] - Helm
• [X] - CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer

• [X] - Godot 4 and GDScript {GameDev}
• [X] - Liquibase
• [X] - Gitlab Pipelines
• [X] - Jfrog Artifactory
• [X] - Hashicorp Packer
• [X] - Pytest/Behave
• [X] - AWS EB, DynamoDB, Timestream, Lambda, SNS and more...
• [X] - Contributed to Open Source Project: Flight Controller
• [X] - GCP Associate Certificate

• [X] - Github Pipelines
• [X] - Hashicorp Terraform
• [X] - Docker/Docker Compose
• [X] - Makefiles
• [X] - Create a speedtest logger
• [X] - AWS DevOps Associate
• [X] - CS50: Web Programming with Python and Javascript

• [X] - Django, Flask, Python
• [X] - AWS Solutions Architect Associate
• [X] - CS50: Introduction to Computer Science
• [X] - AWS Cloud Practitioner

Projects

Cortex Wiki

The goal of this wiki is to be an accumulation and amalgamation of information from various different topics.
Hoping that the act of writing in the wiki format improves the ability to retain and explain whatever I have learnt. Something a long the lines of the Feynman Technique - a mental model (a breakdown of his personal thought process) to convey information using concise thoughts and simple language.

AWS Serverless Web App Template (Archived)

Repository for a simple AWS serverless web application which can be deployed via Terraform.

sustenance.py (Archived)

A simple meal planner!

wifi.py (Archived)

Turn your PC into a WiFi mapping tool. Early stages!
This was a simple tool I created for Windows PCs to help resolve issues around the my workplace. It helped troubleshoot roaming issues and assisted with tuning 80+ AP power levels, adjusting channels and positions of Sophos/Aruba access points to give 20+ customers the best service.

Skills

My current skills are

• Git, Github Actions, Gitlab & Jenkins
• Pipelines & 3 Musketeers
• DBs - SQL, DynamoDB, Timestream, BigQuery, Liquibase
• Project Management & Troubleshooting
• Monitoring & Logging - Grafana & Splunk
• IAC - Terraform (HCL & Python, TFCDK) & Cloudformation
• GCP: Cloudrun, EventArc, PubSub, Artifact Registry, CloudSQL & more
• AWS: Lambda, S3, ECS, RDS, ECR, ALBs, VPCs & more
• JFrog (Artifactory)
• Containerisation - Docker, Docker Compose, LXC, Kubernetes
• Django, Flask
• Pytest, Behave
• Python, Shell Scripting
• Linux & Windows
• IP, TCP, UDP & DNS

Education

• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer - The Linux Foundation (Apr 2024)
• Associate Cloud Engineer - Google (Feb 2023)
• Certified Terraform Associate (002) - HashiCorp (Sep 2022)
• Certified Developer Associate - Amazon Web Services (May 2022)
• CS50: Web Programming with Python and Javascript (Apr 2022)
• Certified Solutions Architect Associate - Amazon Web Services (Jan 2022)
• Certified Cloud Practitioner - Amazon Web Services (Oct 2021)
• CS50: Introduction to Computer Science (Online) - Harvard University (Oct 2021)
• Cisco CCNA - Online (Nov 2018)
• Cisco CCENT - Online (May 2018)