Ramon Rossi |
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DevOps Engineer and Educator |
Profile
- I strive to be:
- An understanding mentor, collaborator and highly-motivated problem-solver
- A low ego learner and sharer with a flexible mindset
- I have taught adults and children for 18+ years, taking pride in...
- High quality course development, delivery
- Performance management and coaching
- I specialise in Azure and I am experienced in...
- Automated deployment of cloud applications on Azure, AWS, GCP
- CICD pipelines with Jenkins, Azure DevOps & GitHub Actions
- IaC with Terraform & Ansible
- Containerisation with Docker & Kubernetes
Qualifications
- DevOps
- Microsoft Certified:
DevOps Engineer Expert - Cisco DevNet Associate
- IBM Data Science Professional Certificate
- Machine Learning Certificate (Stanford University)
- Technical Other
- B.InfoTech (Software Development)
University of Southern Queensland - CompTIA A+
- CompTIA i-Net+
- Oracle SQL and PL/SQL Certification
- Teaching
- Primary Teacher with Qualified Teacher Status (Ref No. 1231535)
- CELTA, University of Cambridge
- Certificate IV in Assessment & Workplace Training (AUS)
Technical
- Cloud Deployment
- Using Azure, Azure, GCP
- Manual & Automated
- Virtualised & Containerised
- CICD with
- Jenkins
- Azure DevOps
- GitHub Actions
- Automation with
- Python scripting
- Bash scripting/user data
- VM Images
- VM Auto Scaling
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Docker Compose
- Kubernetes/Helm
- Other
- Cloud DB Security Architectures
- Cloud storage e.g. S3, Azure Blob
- Relational Database Design & SQL
- Grafana/Prometheus
- Kakfa
- Git/GitHub
- Power BI / Tableau
- DNS management
Employment History
Sparta Global
IT Trainer (DevOps), London
February 2023 - Present
Responsible for:
- - Deploying and maintaining apps related to training
- - Proactively learning, applying, sharing new technologies, Agile and industry best practices
- - Developing learning materials and assessment to stay in line with industry trends and client requests
- - Planning, adapting and delivering courses as appropriate to be tailored to the needs of each cohort
- - Performance management of trainees, documenting and reporting to the team/leadership on progress
- - Providing feedback, support, coaching, interview preparation to enable trainees to be consultant-ready
- - Collaborating with Resourcing and Sales teams to understand client requirements and tailor training accordingly
- - Collaborating with HR to support trainees
- - Mentoring and directing the work of training assistants
- - Collaborating as a course team to meet all above responsibilities
- - Responding to feedback to improve all aspects of training
Various Primary schools
Primary School Class Teacher, London
January 2006 - February 2023
Responsible for:
- - Progress and safety of children
- - Teaching lifelong skills and pastoral care
- - Planning learning experiences and creating/curating differentiated learning resources
- - Feedback to children, along with assessment and reporting
- - Initiating/monitoring/improving programs to address special needs
- - Training/coaching and timetabling support staff
- - Working as a partner with all stakeholders including senior management, parents and other staff (including teachers, support teachers, SENCO, teaching assistants)
- - Working as a teamplayer in both yeargroup and curriulum teams
- - Leading a curriculum area for the school
Bay Connect
Technical Project Officer, Hervey Bay, Australia
February 2000 - December 2003
- - Collaborated within a cross-functional team of five to accomplish project goals and maintain sustainability
- - Designed static HTML and dynamic SQL Server database-driven ASP websites
- - Installed and configured firewalls, servers, staff workstations and a training room of 30 computers
- - Installed and maintained public Internet access sites spanning two cities
- - Trained clients, volunteers and staff and regularly reported to a management committee regarding technical issues and assist planning
Wide Bay Computers
Computer Technician and Consultant, Hervey Bay, Australia
January 1997 - December 1999
- - Collaborated with a team of 10 to build, repair and service PCs/laptops
- - Troubleshooted network and PC problems (including intermittent issues)
- - Shopfront & telephone sales, service, advice
- - Called out to businesses/residential to provide installations, tuition, advice and repairs
Projects
Image Resizer App
July 2025
Developed (assisted by Agentic AI) and deployed on bare metal. Example of a complex application with frontend (React), backend (Flask), database (PostgreSQL), monitoring (Fluentd, Prometheus, Grafana), plus other microservices and Kafka to run batch image processing feature. Designed to be used as a model for trainees of DevOps and Support Engineering, it was "built for operation".
Deploying secure websites with Azure Pipeline
Azure Repo: private (can show on demand)
December 2022
Deployed a working secure WordPress website using Azure Kubernetes Service, a MariaDB or MySQL database for the backend, with Let's Encrypt SSL certificate. All of this was deployed with a single Azure Pipeline using technologies such as Terraform, Helm, Azure Container Registry and Azure Key Vault and Variable Groups.
Migrating monolithic website to Azure
September 2022
In behalf of a non-profit organisation, I refactored and migrated a .Net SQL-Server-driven application (that I wrote in C# a few years ago) so that it could be hosted solely on Azure. Azure cloud storage block blobs were used for backup/restore functions and all images, and append blobs were used for data and error logging. A CI/CD pipeline was used on GitHub Actions for any code changes.
Cloud resume challenge (rayrossi.net)
GitHub: GitHub Repo
Blog Post: A Teacher's Guide to Cloud!
Original Project Link: Resume Challenge by Forrest Brazeal
May 2022
Building a static website and setting up a CI/CD pipeline for its automatic deployment involving Blob storage, Cosmos database, DNS, CDN, custom domain redirects, HTTPS security, and a serverless Azure Function API written in Python, all packaged into a ARM template only utilizing Azure's wide variety of cloud services.
Helping Australians get home
Website: unlockthesky.com
May-November 2021
Built a website (and updated it monthly) to show what was happening with flights to Australia during COVID. This involved: 1) writing Python scripts to collect, combine and clean data (which was from a range of sources including multiple APIs and web scraping); 2) creating Tableau charts to visualise the data; 3) embedding the charts into webpages along with explanations and advice.
What's the best neighbourhood?
GitHub: GitHub Repo with report and PowerPoint presentation
April 2021
A complete run-through of the data science workflow, involving Jupyter Notebooks and Python scripting to gather and clean data from 6 different sources, perform exploratory data analysis and visualisations, and run machine learning (k-means clustering algorithm) to find the answer the question: What's the best neighbourhood in Brisbane for families with children?
Interests
Cycling, football coaching of my children, electronic music production
Ramon Rossi ramon_rossi@hotmail.com +44 7527 693486