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Mohamed Kaba — Portfolio v2.0
Portfolio for Cloud, Kubernetes, & DevOps Engineering

Mohamed Kaba

Infrastructure · Cloud Architecture · Zero-Trust Security

AWS Certified Azure Zero-Trust IAM SysAdmin DevSecOps
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FOUNDATION
Systems and
Infrastructure

Designing, managing, and maintaining enterprise infrastructure across Windows and Linux environments, virtualization platforms, and network systems. Ensuring the security, availability, and performance of critical services through proactive administration, troubleshooting, and infrastructure optimization.

Linux / Windows Server Cisco / Networking Active Directory Virtualization
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Architecture
Cloud & Platform
Engineering

Designing and deploying scalable infrastructure across hybrid environments. Building and managing Kubernetes platforms, automating provisioning through Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and implementing secure, resilient architectures that support modern app workloads.

AWS / Azure Terraform Kubernetes Secure Design
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OPERATIONS & AUTOMATION
DevOps & Site
Reliability

Automating application delivery and infrastructure operations through CI/CD pipelines, GitOps, and configuration management. Improving system reliability through observability, proactive monitoring, high-availability design, and disaster recovery strategies.

Telemetry IAM Automation Dashboards CI/CD Pipelines
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bash — kaba@cloud-sec-node:~
kaba@node.js:~$ cat profile.json
# ──--- Profile ─────
"name": "Mohamed Kaba"
"role": "Infrastructure Systems Engineer"
"focus": ["DevOps", "CloudArch", "ZeroTrust"]
"certs": "AWS | Azure | Terraform | Cisco"
"threat_model": "assume-breach"
"uptime_sla": 99.6%
"status": "CI/CD - Continuous Improvement Continuous Development"
kaba@node.js:~$

Cloud Platform I Built & Operate.

Dashboard
Site Reliability
On-Prem Kubernetes Platform.🟢 Production-ready

A self-managed, on-premises Kubernetes platform hosting the Mavencrest application with GitOps delivery, secure access through Cloudflare Tunnel, and centralized monitoring and alerting. The platform combines application hosting, cluster administration, and infrastructure automation, with planned AIOps capabilities for alert investigation, troubleshooting, and remediation recommendations.

TerraformAWSControl TowerIAMS3
Cloud Infrastructure
Enterprise Landing Zones (AZ and AWS)🟢 Production-ready

Secure cloud foundations across Azure and AWS, provisioned with Terraform. AWS uses Control Tower, multi-account governance, Service Control Policies, and IAM controls. Azure uses management groups, Azure Policy, role-based access control, and identity governance.

AWS Landing Zone
Azure Landing Zones
TerraformAWSAzureControl TowerAzure PolicyIAM / RBAC
Cloud Infrastructure
AWS Enterprise Migration🟢 Production-ready

Migration of a Sporting E-commerce Platform to AWS, mapping workloads to cloud-native services for performance, scalability, and reliability. Backed by Amazon EC2, Auto-scaling, Neon PostgreSQL DB. CI/CD pipeline is configred with Github Actions, new deployments build isoloted AMI artifacts. Infrastructure is deployed and mangaged by Terraform IaC.

TerraformAWSControl TowerIAMS3
Cloud Infrastructure
Azure Migration Solution🟢 Production-ready

Sporting E-commerce Platform migration to Azure using a containerized architecture. Terraform provisions the infrastructure, while Azure DevOps CI/CD builds, pushes, and deploys container images through Azure Container Registry to Azure Container Apps. Scalability, security, monitoring, and high availability built into the design.

ProxmoxWazuhGraylogZeekLinux
Platform Engineering
AKS Microservices Platform🚧 In Progress

An Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) platform hosting Bank of Anthos microservices, provisioned with Terraform and deployed through Argo CD. The platform integrates Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, and Tempo for metrics, logs, traces, and alerting, combining Azure networking, workload identity, and centralized observability to support reliable microservices operations and troubleshooting.

KubernetesLinux VMsAKS MigrationOn-PremisesDocker
Architecture Coming Soon
DRaaS / BaaS
Disaster Recovery 🟢 Production-ready

Disaster recovery orchestration for the Mavencrest Azure container platform. This repository handles a full recovery using two repositories as its source of truth: MavencrestAzure — Terraform IaC E-commerce - Application source and Docker images. DR orchestration pipeline runs depending on level of failure detected.

Azure Site RecoveryAzure BackupRecovery VaultTerraform
Cloud Infrastructure
FinOps Platform 🚧 In Progress

Cloud cost governance platform providing real-time spend visibility, budget management, reporting, resource optimization, and savings recommendations across multi-cloud environment.

AzureAWSPower BITerraformFinOps
Applications
Sporting E-commerce App🟢 Production-ready

Next.js storefront and admin applications backed by PostgreSQL and Prisma.

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An sporting goods e-commerce platform showcasing an enterprise-grade infrastructure and modern cloud architecture. Focuses on scalability, observability, containerized deployments, disaster recovery, cloud design. It includes a Next.js storefront and admin applications backed by PostgreSQL database and Prisma ORM.

Next.js 16PostgreSQLPrisma 7DockerFullstack development
Applications
API Powered Weather App🟢 Production-ready

S3-hosted frontend with an AWS Lambda and API Gateway backend.

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A hybrid-architecture web application, using a static S3-hosted frontend and a scalable serverless backend. Used AWS Lambda and API Gateway to execute dynamic processing, optimizing infrastructure costs. Strengthened security by migrating sensitive API credentials to protected Lambda Environment Variables.

ApacheAWS LambdaAPI GatewayPython
Applications
WebApp on Lambda Compute🟢 Production-ready

Next.js application hosting on AWS Lambda compute.

View architecture +Close architecture −

Next.js application hosting using AWS Lambda as it's compute engine.

ApacheAWS LambdaAWS SSMAWS SDK
Cloud Infrastructure
Mavencrest Security Hub⏸ On Hold

Cloud and hybrid security focused on identity, least privilege, and network hardening.

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Secure infrastructure across cloud and hybrid environments, focusing on identity-first security, network hardening, and least-privilege access controls. Focuses on security best practices including IAM governance and continuous monitoring.

TerraformAWSControl TowerIAMS3
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Fullstack Development

Sporting E-commerce Platform

A production-ready sporting goods e-commerce platform built with separate Next.js storefront and administration applications, Google OAuth and email/password authentication, Docker support, nginx, PostgreSQL, and Prisma 7 ORM.

Production-ready
Next.js 16PostgreSQLPrisma 7nginxDockerGoogle OAuth
Architecture Diagram
Sporting E-commerce Platform architecture showing storefront, admin, authentication, PostgreSQL, Prisma, Docker, and nginx.
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Demo / Documentation

Architecture

The diagram summarizes the primary traffic flow, application components, security controls, automation, and data services used by the project.

Engineering Focus

This project is presented as an engineering case study focused on reliability, scalability, security, repeatability, and operational clarity.

Documentation Roadmap

Add implementation screenshots, Terraform plans, deployment output, monitoring views, design trade-offs, and lessons learned as the project progresses.

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Applications

API Powered Weather App

A hybrid web application that separates a static frontend from an AWS serverless backend. API Gateway invokes Lambda for dynamic processing while credentials remain protected in Lambda.

Production-ready
ApacheAWS LambdaAPI GatewayPython
Architecture Diagram
API-powered weather app serverless architecture showing frontend, API management, serverless functions, secrets, monitoring, and external weather API.
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Demo / Documentation

Architecture

The diagram summarizes the primary traffic flow, application components, security controls, automation, and data services used by the project.

Engineering Focus

This project is presented as an engineering case study focused on reliability, scalability, security, repeatability, and operational clarity.

Documentation Roadmap

Add implementation screenshots, Terraform plans, deployment output, monitoring views, design trade-offs, and lessons learned as the project progresses.

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Cloud Infrastructure

Multi-Region AWS Landing Zone

A governed multi-account AWS foundation using Terraform and AWS Control Tower with centralized identity, Service Control Policies, permission boundaries, logging, and regional guardrails.

In progress
TerraformAWSControl TowerIAMOrganizations
Architecture Diagram
Demo / Documentation

Architecture

The diagram summarizes the primary traffic flow, application components, security controls, automation, and data services used by the project.

Engineering Focus

This project is presented as an engineering case study focused on reliability, scalability, security, repeatability, and operational clarity.

Documentation Roadmap

Add implementation screenshots, Terraform plans, deployment output, monitoring views, design trade-offs, and lessons learned as the project progresses.

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Cloud Security

Secure Infrastructure

A secure cloud and hybrid infrastructure design centered on identity-first controls, network segmentation, least privilege, centralized monitoring, and policy enforcement.

In progress
TerraformAWSIAMZero TrustMonitoring
Architecture Diagram
Demo / Documentation

Architecture

The diagram summarizes the primary traffic flow, application components, security controls, automation, and data services used by the project.

Engineering Focus

This project is presented as an engineering case study focused on reliability, scalability, security, repeatability, and operational clarity.

Documentation Roadmap

Add implementation screenshots, Terraform plans, deployment output, monitoring views, design trade-offs, and lessons learned as the project progresses.

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Security

Container DevSecOps

A secure container delivery pipeline that builds, tests, scans, verifies, and publishes Docker images to Azure Container Registry before deployment.

In progress
Azure Container RegistryTerraformDockerCI/CDSecurity Scanning
Architecture Diagram
Demo / Documentation

Architecture

The diagram summarizes the primary traffic flow, application components, security controls, automation, and data services used by the project.

Engineering Focus

This project is presented as an engineering case study focused on reliability, scalability, security, repeatability, and operational clarity.

Documentation Roadmap

Add implementation screenshots, Terraform plans, deployment output, monitoring views, design trade-offs, and lessons learned as the project progresses.

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Cloud Infrastructure

AWS Enterprise Migration

A production-style migration of the e-commerce platform to AWS using Terraform, EC2 Auto Scaling, an Application Load Balancer, VPC networking, object storage, and PostgreSQL.

Production-ready
TerraformAWSEC2ALBPostgreSQLS3
Architecture Diagram
AWS Enterprise Migration architecture showing Terraform, Route 53, ALB, Auto Scaling EC2 instances, IAM, AMIs, S3, target groups, and monitoring.
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Demo / Documentation

Architecture

The diagram summarizes the primary traffic flow, application components, security controls, automation, and data services used by the project.

Engineering Focus

This project is presented as an engineering case study focused on reliability, scalability, security, repeatability, and operational clarity.

Documentation Roadmap

Add implementation screenshots, Terraform plans, deployment output, monitoring views, design trade-offs, and lessons learned as the project progresses.

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Cloud Infrastructure

Azure Migration Solution

An Azure migration solution using Azure Functions and API Management to provide a scalable, decoupled backend with managed security and minimal server administration.

Production-ready
Azure FunctionsAPI ManagementTerraformAzureMonitoring
Architecture Diagram
Azure Migration Solution architecture showing Terraform, Azure Container Apps, Azure Container Registry, Log Analytics, networking, managed identity, and monitoring.
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Demo / Documentation

Architecture

The diagram summarizes the primary traffic flow, application components, security controls, automation, and data services used by the project.

Engineering Focus

This project is presented as an engineering case study focused on reliability, scalability, security, repeatability, and operational clarity.

Documentation Roadmap

Add implementation screenshots, Terraform plans, deployment output, monitoring views, design trade-offs, and lessons learned as the project progresses.

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Site Reliability

SRE AI-OPS Analytics Dashboard

A centralized telemetry platform designed to ingest infrastructure and application data, process it through a shared pipeline, and visualize health, usage, errors, and leverage AI-assisted infrastructure operations.

In progress
GrafanaTelemetryTerraformAWSMonitoring
Architecture Diagram
Demo / Documentation

Architecture

The diagram summarizes the primary traffic flow, application components, security controls, automation, and data services used by the project.

Engineering Focus

This project is presented as an engineering case study focused on reliability, scalability, security, repeatability, and operational clarity.

Documentation Roadmap

Add implementation screenshots, Terraform plans, deployment output, monitoring views, design trade-offs, and lessons learned as the project progresses.

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FinOps

FinOps Platform

A multi-cloud cost governance platform providing spend visibility, budgets, chargeback and showback, optimization findings, and actionable savings recommendations.

In progress
AzureAWSPower BITerraformFinOps
Architecture Diagram
Demo / Documentation

Architecture

The diagram summarizes the primary traffic flow, application components, security controls, automation, and data services used by the project.

Engineering Focus

This project is presented as an engineering case study focused on reliability, scalability, security, repeatability, and operational clarity.

Documentation Roadmap

Add implementation screenshots, Terraform plans, deployment output, monitoring views, design trade-offs, and lessons learned as the project progresses.

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DRaaS / BaaS

Disaster Recovery

A cloud-based backup and disaster recovery design with policy-driven backups, cross-region replication, recovery orchestration, testing, and failover.

In progress
Azure Site RecoveryAzure BackupRecovery Services VaultTerraform
Architecture Diagram
Demo / Documentation

Architecture

The diagram summarizes the primary traffic flow, application components, security controls, automation, and data services used by the project.

Engineering Focus

This project is presented as an engineering case study focused on reliability, scalability, security, repeatability, and operational clarity.

Documentation Roadmap

Add implementation screenshots, Terraform plans, deployment output, monitoring views, design trade-offs, and lessons learned as the project progresses.

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Cloud Infrastructure

Azure Landing Zones

An enterprise-ready Azure Landing Zone built with Terraform, management groups, Azure Policy, RBAC, central logging, networking, governance controls, and GitHub OIDC.

In progress
TerraformAzureManagement GroupsAzure PolicyRBACGitHub OIDC
Architecture Diagram
Demo / Documentation

Architecture

The diagram summarizes the primary traffic flow, application components, security controls, automation, and data services used by the project.

Engineering Focus

This project is presented as an engineering case study focused on reliability, scalability, security, repeatability, and operational clarity.

Documentation Roadmap

Add implementation screenshots, Terraform plans, deployment output, monitoring views, design trade-offs, and lessons learned as the project progresses.

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Validated Expertise.

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Amazon Web Services
AWS Solutions Architect Professional

Validates advanced technical skills and experience in designing distributed applications and systems on the AWS platform. Focuses on complex multi-tier architecture strategy, cost optimization, scaling, and enterprise migration frameworks.

Advanced ArchitectureCost OptimizationEnterprise Migration
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator

Validates technical expertise in deployment, management, security, and operations on the AWS platform. Confirms a strong understanding of system health monitoring, infrastructure automation, and resource provisioning.

OperationsDeployment AutomationMonitoring
Amazon Web Services
AWS Solutions Architect Associate

Demonstrates comprehensive knowledge of designing high-availability, cost-effective, and fault-tolerant distributed systems across AWS core services, focusing on compute, storage, networking, and security layers.

Cloud Systems DesignCore ServicesHigh Availability
Amazon Web Services
AWS Developer Associate

Demonstrates technical proficiency in developing, deploying, and debugging cloud-native applications using AWS development tools, SDKs, serverless resources, and CI/CD pipelines.

Serverless AppsCI/CD AutomationCloud Development
Cisco
Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

Validates foundational knowledge of network infrastructure, covering IP connectivity, IP services, security fundamentals, automation, programmability, and routing/switching protocols.

Routing & SwitchingNetwork SecurityIP Infrastructure
Microsoft Azure
Azure Administrator Associate AZ-104 In Progress

Validates enterprise-level skills required to implement, manage, and monitor identity, governance, storage, compute, and virtual networks in a cloud environment.

Hybrid IdentityVirtual NetworkingAzure Administration
HashiCorp
Terraform Associate (004)In Progress

Demonstrates baseline foundational understanding of cloud concepts, core Azure architecture models, management tools, compliance frameworks, and network security infrastructure options.

IaCCloud DeploymentGovernance
RedHat
Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)In Progress

Proves proficiency in managing files, controlling the command-line shell, configuring local storage, managing user accounts, and validates essential skills in system security.

LinuxSystem AdminustrationDevOps
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