Alex Ng
AWS Certified Solution Architect - Professional | IT Infrastructure Management | DevOps Management | Cloud Evangelist
CONTACT
Singapore
SKILLS
AWS
GCP
Azure
Alibaba Cloud
Tencent Cloud
Huawei Cloud
Flask
Spring Boot
GitOps
Jenkins
Docker
Kubernetes
Terraform
Ansible
Elastic Stack
Prometheus Stack
New Relic APM
SQL
NoSQL
GitOps
HTML/CSS
PROGRAMMING
Bash
85%
Python
95%
Java
85%
HTML/CSS
95%
Javascript
80%
Golang
75%
ReactJS
60%
VueJS
75%
PHP
70%
C++
50%
LANGUAGE
English
100%
Mandarin
100%
EXPERIENCE
Manager, Cloud Infrastructure @ UP Devlabs Pte Ltd
May 2021 - Present
Singapore
- Manage global offices' corporate IT infrastructure
- Implemented inventory management for corporate devices
- Implemented security implementation for 2fa authentication via Duo to AWS Workspaces
- Manage cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Alibaba Cloud/Huawei Cloud)
- Manage DevOps & Cloud Engineering Team
- Designed production-ready cloud infrastructure for projects in the company
- Designed and implemented automation processes and tools for infrastructure automation to reduce/eliminate manual workload
- Designed and implemented DevOps processes and tools in the company (Jenkins, ELK, Prometheus Stack, containerization, kubernetes, etc)
- Implemented cloud cost optimization strategies using spot instances and reserved instances in Kubernetes
- Designed and implemented infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using Terraform to maintain cloud resources in the company
- Implemented Ansible for config management for non-containerized applications running on virtual machines (EC2)
- Implemented cache layer for go modules, docker images, etc with Nexus OSS
- Designed and implemented various self-developed CLI tools using Golang and Python to speed up daily operations such as CloudFlare CLI, NameCheap CLI, Consul CLI for KV, etc
- Implemented APM using NewRelic to identify optimizations for high concurrency PHP applications
- Redesigned the architecture for PHP applications in Kubernetes to make it highly scalable
- Designed and implemented DR for Cloud Storage Service with Java Spring Boot's scheduled Tasks
- Designed automated infrastructure provisioning for AWS RDS (MySQL) and Containers deployment with Java Spring Boot application (REST API)
- Implemented automated alert notification in Telegram with Python Flask app and Selenium webdriver for screenshot ability
- Implemented whitelist function with Lua in Openresty (Nginx+LuaJIT) for applications to whitelist without manual intervention
- Implemented rate limit with Lua+Redis in Openresty (NGINX+LuaJIT) for web APIs
- Migrated many legacy applications to kubernetes
Infrastructure Manager @ Asia Fusion Technology Pte Ltd (Headquarter)
Dec 2018 - Apr 2021
Singapore
- Manage global infrastructure (data centers & cloud) in Taiwan (Primary) and Philippines (DR)
- Vendor management for data center hardwares
- Implemented CDN and DDoS mitigation strategies for Production Infrastructure
- Implemented Hybrid Cloud setup using AWS Direct Connect between data center and AWS
- Manage DevOps team and implemented DevOps tools processes in the company (Jenkins, GitOps, ELK, Prometheus Stack, containerization, k8s, etc)
- Manage the DevOps team in automating work processes with Python/Golang
- Developed Python Flask API for automated deployment in AWS
- Implemented serverless architecture in AWS Lambda and API gateway
- Manage MIS team, corporate offices' infrastructure and implemented ITIL processes
- Implemented inventory management for corporate devices
- Implemented VDI using AWS Workspaces
- Implemented China Route optimization for infrastructure
- Oversee the IT Operations team in 24/7 operations
- Oversee the IT Operations team in managing global data center with F5 LB, Juniper SRX, Fortigate, Cisco Switches, Brocade, VMWare esxi/vcenter, PureStorage SANs
- Manages RFQ, RFP for infrastructure requirements
- Manage infrastructure budget for every Financial Year
- Developed a Chrome VPN extension to eliminate the need for L2TP/PPTP VPN creation (NimbusVPN in Google Chrome Extension Store)
Infrastructure Manager @ Nogle Limited
May 2019 - Jun 2020
Taipei City, Taiwan
- Parked under Nogle to manages AFT infrastructure in Taipei Data Centers
Infrastructure Manager @ Asia Fusion Technology Limited
Dec 2018 - Apr 2019
Taipei City, Taiwan
- Based in Taipei City, Taiwan to oversee Taiwan Data Centers
Head of Network Operations Center (NOC) @ Orion Consultancy Pte Ltd
Oct 2016 - Dec 2018
Singapore
- Planned and Setup-ed a 24/7 Cloud Operations team from scratch
- Implemented 24 hours shift scheduling system for 24/7 operations
- Implemented and Manage Cloud Infrastructure (AWS (Primary), GCP, Azure, Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud)
- Implemented and Manage CDN & Ddos Mitigation strategies
- Implemented and Manage DevOps tools and processes
- Implemented and Manage automated scripts to automate mundane processes using Python
- Implemented and Manage China routes optimization for cloud infrastructure
Director of Network Operations @ Hostxify Pte Ltd
Sep 2013 - Oct 2016
Singapore
- Planning and Management of Network & Server infrastructure
- Sourcing and procurement of hardware equipment
- Dealing with virtualization technologies such as VMware ESXI, OpenVZ and Xen
- Implementation of High Availability (HA) in infrastructure
- Implementation of hosting softwares such as cPanel, DirectAdmin
- Implementation of LiteSpeed Web Server
- Planning and implementing security controls
- Implementation and management of Disaster Recovery (DR) process
- Monitoring and managing capacity planning for server infrastructure
- Planning and management of server capacity
Director of Information Technology @ Infowerz Pte Ltd
Jan 2015 - Oct 2016
Singapore
- Designed and Manage projects within company ranging from IT infrastructure projects to development projects
- Manage hosting infrastructure in data centers
- Establish procurement channels through IT distributors and resellers for the company
Software Engineer @ Infowerz Pte Ltd
Apr 2012 - Dec 2014
Singapore
- Specialized in PHP Development for Wordpress, Laravel and Magento
- Design WordPress Themes and Plugins for Corporate Clients
- Perform WordPress Migration Tasks
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Computer Science (Digital System Security) @ University of Wollongong
10/2020 - 03/2023
Remarks:
Bachelor of Science (Banking and Finance) @ University of London
02/2011 - 06/2013
Remarks:
Diploma in Management Studies @ Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS)
01/2010 - 02/2011
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