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Mohammad Damaj

Cloud Engineer

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About Me.

I'm an aspiring Cloud Engineer based in the UK. This website showcases my experience, projects and certifications and provides a professional landing page for recruiters. The building of the website itself is my first project and is based on the Cloud Resume Challenge. It is a static portfolio homepage using a serverless architecture which demonstrates my understanding of AWS fundamentals.

This website uses:

View source on GitHub

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Experience:

Project 2: Serverless AWS Exam Readiness Platform

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Description: An event-driven serverless application designed to help AWS exam takers assess their exam readiness.

This web application allows users to:

  • create an account
  • take practice exams
  • review answers
  • track progress
  • view weakest subjects
  • receive an exam readiness score
  • upload notes
  • generate quizzes from notes (with AI)

Tools used

  • Lambda
  • API Gateway
  • DynamoDB
  • Cognito
  • CloudFront
  • S3
  • EventBridge
  • SNS
  • Textract
  • WAF
  • Shield
  • CloudWatch
  • CloudTrail
  • Terraform
  • Git/GitHub
  • GitHub Actions
  • Bedrock

Links: website (replace), View source on GitHub

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Project 3: Containerised To-do App

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Description: This simple to-do application uses containerised workloads and has features such as:

  • user login
  • CRUD tasks
  • labels
  • due dates
  • search
  • notifications
  • dark mode

Tools used

  • ECS
  • Fargate
  • ECR
  • ALB
  • RDS
  • CloudWatch
  • CloudTrail
  • IAM
  • VPC
  • Route53
  • ACM
  • Terraform
  • GitHub Actions

Links: website (replace), View source on GitHub

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Project 4: Multi-tier Learning Platform

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Description: A learning platform which runs on traditional multi-tier infrastructure.

On this website, instructors can:

  • upload videos
  • create courses
  • create quizzes
  • create assignments
  • view analytics

Students can:

  • purchase courses
  • watch videos
  • take notes
  • view their progress
  • obtain certificates.

There are reporting functions and the admin can manage users.

Tools used

  • NGINX
  • EC2
  • Auto Scaling
  • ALB
  • Aurora
  • EFS
  • S3
  • CloudFront
  • Route53
  • IAM
  • CloudWatch
  • CloudTrail
  • SNS
  • Terraform
  • Ansible

Links: website (replace), View source on GitHub

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Certifications:

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

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Completed the learn.cantrill.io course for AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate - SAA-C03

Certificate on LinkedIn:

learn.cantrill.io SAA-C03 course completion certificate