Ikay U

About Ikay U

Certified AWS Solutions Architect with over 8+ years of experience designing, deploying, and optimizing scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud solutions. Expertise in AWS services, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, big data, and cloud security. Proven ability to architect high-availability, fault-tolerant, and serverless systems while ensuring compliance with HIPAA, GDPR, and SOC2. Strong background in Microservices, containers (Dockers/Kubernetes), and data analytics.

Experience

1. Senior Solution Architect

   HP

   Aug 2023 — Present · Spring, TX, US

   Conducting security audits & vulnerability assessments using AWS Security Hub, Guard Duty, and Inspector.• Ensuring compliance with HIPAA, GDPR, and SOC2 by implementing encryption (KMS), logging (Cloud Trail), and monitoring (Cloud Watch Alarms).• Design and deployed highly available, fault-tolerant AWS architectures using EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and VPC.• Automating infrastructure provisioning using Terraform & AWS CloudFormation, reducing deployment time by 60%.• Implementing CI/CD pipelines with AWS Code Pipeline, Jenkins, and GitHub Actions for seamless application deployments.• Optimizing cost and performance by leveraging auto-scaling, reserved instances, and serverless solutions (Lambda, API Gateway).• Built data lakes and ETL pipelines using Glue, Athena, and Redshift, improving analytics efficiency by 50%.

Education

• Florida State University

  Master of Science, Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management

• University of Nigeria, Enugu

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science