I'm Andrew! - Human First, Technologist Second

Who are you again?...

I'm based out of San Diego, CA
Check out my blog/personal website at drupark.net
You can contact me at [email protected]
I'm currently focused on teaching people to love EKS Blueprints for CDK (Typescript)
Learning how to build/scale LLM's using various container orchestrators
I'm open to collaborating on anything that will help people develop a passion for the cloud and/or start their careers in tech
Loves coffee, lofi hip-hop, and rescuing dogs from shelters
Sports Fanatic: Manchester United, Seattle Seahawks, Seattle Mariners, and waiting for the Seattle Sonics to come back...

After 8+ years of working as a Cloud Architect, I have fallen in love with the following areas of cloud computing

DevOps - honestly at this point all the Ops i.e DevSecOps, MLOps... you name it and I've probably dealt with it
Tools/Frameworks that make building and deploying containers easier
Kubernetes - GitOps, Security, and really anything that helps make it easier for people to use Kubernetes
Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC): CDK, Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation
Serverless - Event Driven Architectures (yes, I understand there is a difference), Messaging, Data Processing
Cost optimization approaches to help reduce your cloud bill
Typescript, Python, Golang are my favorite languages at the moment
Trying to learn how to love Rust...

Other areas that I'm passionate about

Helping folks of all experience levels and backgrounds achieve careers in the tech industry (bonus points if you're coming from a non-technical background)
Career Mentorship
Technical enablement on the areas mentioned above
Sales enablement because sometimes our friends need help selling this stuff
Building Go-To-Market (GTM) strategies that produce meaningful results and insights

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Andrew Park's Projects

Using AWS for GitHub Actions and various security features available through AWS Container Services like Amazon ECS, AWS Fargate, and Amazon ECR, this repository demonstrates an automated build and deploy pipeline using GitHub Actions from application code to deploying an ECS service using Fargate. In the process, it also uses AWS KMS integration with ECR and ECR on-push scanning features to demonstrate security integration at various stages of an automated build process to help deploy security and compliance controls.

geolocationapi

.NET Web API for retrieving geolocations. Geolocation data provided by MaxMind GeoLite2.

harness-canary-workshop

YAML Files for Harness Canary Workshop

my-portfolio

This is my professional portfolio

net-modernization

This workshop is for .NET developers who are interested in restructuring their legacy application into microservices. In this workshop you will apply the strangler fig pattern to extract multiple services from a sample monolithic application and re-implement them with modern AWS services.