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bigneek78/README.md

Neco Thomas | Systems Engineering

Senior Systems Engineer focused on cloud infrastructure, platform reliability, automation, and mission-critical environments. I design and support resilient systems across AWS, Azure, and enterprise Linux/Windows platforms with a strong emphasis on security, observability, and operational excellence.


🧭 Engineering Focus

  • Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineering
  • DevOps & Infrastructure Automation
  • Distributed Systems Reliability
  • Observability, Logging & Incident Response
  • Security & Compliance (DoD, STIG, NIST, FedRAMP-aligned)
  • AI-assisted operations & intelligent automation

☁️ Core Technologies

Cloud: AWS | Azure | GCP
DevOps: Terraform | Ansible | Jenkins | GitLab CI/CD
Containers: Docker | Kubernetes
Systems: RHEL 7–9 | Windows Server | VMware | AIX
Languages: Python | Bash
Observability: CloudWatch | Logging pipelines | Metrics platforms
Security: IAM | Hardening | Vulnerability Management | Compliance Automation


🧪 Featured Work

🔹 Cloud Reliability & Platform Engineering Labs

Hands-on environments demonstrating failure injection, monitoring, resilience patterns, and operational maturity.

🔹 DevOps Automation Projects

Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD pipelines, automated provisioning, and deployment workflows.

🔹 Observability & Incident Response

Logging pipelines, debugging workflows, runbooks, and performance analysis across distributed systems.

🔹 AI + Cloud Operations

Applying machine learning and automation to operational support, compliance, and system intelligence.


🎓 Certifications

  • AWS DevOps Engineer – Professional
  • AWS SysOps Administrator – Associate
  • Microsoft Azure AI Engineer – Associate
  • CompTIA Security+
  • CompTIA Linux+
  • HDI

🧱 Mission

To engineer platforms that are:

  • Reliable
  • Secure
  • Observable
  • Automated
  • Scalable
  • Built for real-world production environments

✍️ Technical Writing & Labs

I document engineering labs, reliability experiments, and real-world infrastructure implementations to help teams scale operational maturity and reduce support friction.

(Links to Medium articles and project writeups are included within repositories.)


🤝 Connect With Me

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neco-thomas-33908a135
✍️ Medium: https://medium.com/@necothomas78 🎓 Certifications: https://www.credly.com/users/neco-thomas.5199772c
📫 Email: bigneek78@gmail.com


⚙️ Current Focus

  • Platform reliability engineering
  • Cloud automation & IaC
  • Observability-first infrastructure
  • Systems engineering for high-scale environments
  • Mission-driven federal & enterprise cloud support

Popular repositories Loading

  1. cloudmart cloudmart Public

  2. data-platform-reliability-lab data-platform-reliability-lab Public

    Reliability and support engineering lab demonstrating Kafka failure testing, observability-driven triage, runbooks, and automation for distributed data platforms.

    Python

  3. bigneek78 bigneek78 Public