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Charles Woodruff

DevOps Engineer • Cloud Architect • Kubernetes Specialist

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👋 About Me

I am a results-driven DevOps Engineer and Cloud Architect dedicated to building and maintaining robust, scalable, and efficient infrastructure. With expertise in Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and CI/CD automation, I empower organizations to achieve faster release cycles, improved reliability, and optimized cloud performance.


🛠️ Technology Stack


🚀 Featured Projects

🔹 K8s Infrastructure Setup: A comprehensive guide to bootstrapping a production-ready Kubernetes cluster.
- **Description**: This repository contains Terraform and Ansible scripts to provision a highly available K8s cluster on AWS, complete with monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana) and logging stacks. - **Link**: [github.com/charleswoodruff/k8s-infrastructure-setup](https://github.com/charleswoodruff/k8s-infrastructure-setup)

🔹 Reusable Terraform AWS Modules: A collection of secure, reusable, and production-grade Terraform modules for AWS.
- **Description**: Standardized modules for common AWS resources (VPC, S3, RDS, etc.) designed to enforce best practices for security and tagging. - **Link**: [github.com/charleswoodruff/terraform-aws-modules](https://github.com/charleswoodruff/terraform-aws-modules)

🔹 GitOps with GitHub Actions & ArgoCD: A reference implementation of a GitOps workflow.
- **Description**: Demonstrates how to use GitHub Actions for building container images and ArgoCD for automated, declarative deployment to Kubernetes. - **Link**: [github.com/charleswoodruff/github-actions-workflows](https://github.com/charleswoodruff/github-actions-workflows)


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🏆 Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) HashiCorp Terraform Associate


🎯 Current Focus

currently_learning:

  • Advanced Kubernetes Security (e.g., Kyverno, Falco)
  • Multi-Cloud Cost Optimization Strategies
  • Service Mesh implementation with Istio

working_on:

  • Building a self-service internal developer platform (IDP)
  • Enhancing CI/CD pipeline efficiency with caching strategies
  • Open-source contributions to DevOps tools

🤝 Let's Connect

I'm always open to discussing new projects, cloud architecture challenges, or opportunities for collaboration. Feel free to reach out!

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