Open to junior DevOps roles, freelance work & collaborations

Hi, I'm

Mahamat Mbodou

AWS Certified Cloud Engineer

Building secure, automated cloud infrastructure with Terraform, Docker and GitHub Actions.

I'm Bodu, a Solutions Architect – Associate based in Jersey City, NJ. I design AWS environments as code, ship them through CI/CD, and add the monitoring that tells you when something breaks.

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  • 2AWS certifications
  • 12reusable Terraform modules
  • 3availability zones per build
AWS Terraform GitHub Actions Docker

Who I am

About Me

I studied Computer Information Systems at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, then went deep on AWS: two certifications and a set of projects I built, broke on purpose, and fixed.

Before cloud, I helped run my family's store, handling inventory and customers. That taught me to keep things running, explain problems plainly, and finish what I start. I bring the same habits to infrastructure work.

Right now I'm deploying a Kubernetes microservices app to Amazon EKS and taking on freelance AWS projects while I look for a junior DevOps or Cloud Engineer role in the New York area or remote.

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Education

A.S. Computer Information Systems
Borough of Manhattan Community College · 2024

Certifications

AWS Solutions Architect – Associate
AWS Cloud Practitioner

Current focus

Kubernetes on Amazon EKS
GitOps, separate app / infra repos

Based in

Jersey City, NJ
Open to NYC area or remote

What I work with

Skills & Tools

Cloud (AWS)

  • EC2
  • VPC
  • Auto Scaling
  • ALB
  • RDS
  • S3
  • CloudFront
  • Route 53
  • ACM
  • WAF
  • Lambda

Infrastructure as Code

  • Terraform
  • Modules
  • Remote state
  • Multi-environment

CI/CD & Automation

  • GitHub Actions
  • OIDC
  • Bash
  • Pipelines

Containers & OS

  • Docker
  • Linux
  • Kubernetes (learning)
  • EKS

Monitoring

  • CloudWatch
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Alertmanager
  • SNS

Security & Identity

  • IAM
  • STS
  • MFA
  • Least privilege
  • RBAC

Databases

  • Amazon RDS
  • MySQL
  • DynamoDB
  • PostgreSQL

Programming Languages

  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • HTML/CSS

What I offer

Freelance Services

Fixed scope and fixed price. Every job ends with the code in your GitHub repo and a short guide, so you're never locked in.

Terraform VPC setup

from $150

Public and private subnets across availability zones, NAT, routing and security groups as reusable modules.

Website on AWS

from $75

Your site on S3 and CloudFront with HTTPS, your domain and security headers. Fast and almost free to run.

Dockerize your app

from $75

A small, clean Dockerfile and docker-compose setup so your app runs the same everywhere.

CI/CD pipeline

from $100

Test, build and deploy on every push with GitHub Actions, using OIDC instead of stored AWS keys.

Monitoring & alerts

from $75

CloudWatch dashboards and alarms for what matters, with email or Slack alerts.

AWS cost & security check

from $100

Unused resources, open ports, risky IAM permissions and missing MFA, in a short report ranked by impact.

What I've built

Featured Projects

Featured

May – June 2026

Production-Ready 3-Tier AWS Infrastructure

Multi-AZ environment from 12 reusable Terraform modules: public ALB, private Dockerized EC2 app tier, isolated RDS, WAF, HTTPS, and two OIDC-secured GitHub Actions pipelines with a production approval gate.

  • Terraform
  • ALB
  • Auto Scaling
  • RDS
  • WAF
  • Prometheus
GitHub Demo video coming soon
In progress

2026 · ongoing

Kubernetes Microservices on Amazon EKS

A microservices app with PostgreSQL storage, running locally on Kubernetes and now moving to EKS, split into separate app, infrastructure and GitOps repositories.

  • Kubernetes
  • EKS
  • PostgreSQL
  • GitOps
GitHub Demo video coming soon

March – April 2026

Enterprise AWS IAM Access Control

Role-based access for 9 users in Admin, Developer and Tester groups, MFA for everyone, and temporary admin access through STS AssumeRole. Least privilege verified by testing allowed and denied actions.

  • IAM
  • STS
  • MFA
  • RBAC
GitHub Demo video coming soon
This site

2026

This Portfolio, Production-Grade on AWS

Private S3 origin behind CloudFront with strict security headers, a serverless contact form (API Gateway, Lambda, SES), alarms and a budget alert, deployed by GitHub Actions over OIDC. About $2 a month.

  • CloudFront
  • Lambda
  • SES
  • Terraform
  • OIDC
GitHub

Academic project · BMCC

Afro-Style E-commerce Website

A 7-page store with 32 products in 4 categories and a cart saved in localStorage, with add, increment, decrement and remove updating totals live. Plain HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery.

  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • JavaScript
  • jQuery
GitHub

Path so far

My Journey

  1. Now

    Kubernetes on Amazon EKS

    Deploying my microservices app to EKS with separate app, infrastructure and GitOps repositories.

  2. May – Jun 2026

    Production-ready 3-tier AWS infrastructure

    12 Terraform modules, dev and prod environments, OIDC pipelines, Prometheus and Grafana. Tested by breaking it on purpose.

  3. Mar – Apr 2026

    Enterprise IAM access control

    RBAC for 9 users, enforced MFA and STS role switching for temporary admin access.

  4. 2025

    AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

    Designing resilient, secure and cost-aware architectures on AWS.

  5. 2024

    A.S. Computer Information Systems, BMCC

    Web programming, Linux, databases and networking. Also earned AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.

  6. Before cloud

    Store associate, family business

    Inventory and replenishment, customer service, and keeping daily operations running.

Credentials

Certificates & Achievements

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Amazon Web Services · 2025

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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Amazon Web Services · 2024

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