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I am Kenneth Samonte, a Site Reliability Engineer and Cloud DevOps professional with over 13 years of solid experience spanning on-premises data centers and multiple cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) alongside VMware. I’ve led cross-functional teams, designed scalable cloud architectures, and driven migrations, automation, and performance optimization. My mission is to design and build mission-critical systems, implement automation and DevOps practices for reliability, scalability, and growth, and mentor colleagues to adopt modern technologies.…I am Kenneth Samonte, a Site Reliability Engineer and Cloud DevOps professional with over 13 years of solid experience spanning on-premises data centers and multiple cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) alongside VMware. I’ve led cross-functional teams, designed scalable cloud architectures, and driven migrations, automation, and performance optimization. My mission is to design and build mission-critical systems, implement automation and DevOps practices for reliability, scalability, and growth, and mentor colleagues to adopt modern technologies.

Kenneth Samonte

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I am Kenneth Samonte, a Site Reliability Engineer and Cloud DevOps professional with over 13 years of solid experience spanning on-premises data centers and multiple cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) alongside VMware. I’ve led cross-functional teams, designed scalable cloud architectures, and driven migrations, automation, and performance optimization. My mission is to design and build mission-critical systems, implement automation and DevOps practices for reliability, scalability, and growth, and mentor colleagues to adopt modern technologies.…I am Kenneth Samonte, a Site Reliability Engineer and Cloud DevOps professional with over 13 years of solid experience spanning on-premises data centers and multiple cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) alongside VMware. I’ve led cross-functional teams, designed scalable cloud architectures, and driven migrations, automation, and performance optimization. My mission is to design and build mission-critical systems, implement automation and DevOps practices for reliability, scalability, and growth, and mentor colleagues to adopt modern technologies.

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I am Kenneth Samonte, a Site Reliability Engineer and Cloud DevOps professional with over 13 years of solid experience spanning on-premises data centers and multiple cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) alongside VMware. I’ve led cross-functional teams, designed scalable cloud architectures, and driven migrations, automation, and performance optimization.

My mission is to design and build mission-critical systems, implement automation and DevOps practices for reliability, scalability, and growth, and mentor colleagues to adopt modern technologies.

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Work Experience

Senior Cloud and Platform Engineer at Vector Limited

March 1, 2024 - Present

Provide technical leadership in the design, development, testing, deployment & maintenance of Cloud infrastructure in AWS, Azure and VMware Cloud – work with Windows and Linux servers. Actively contribute to creating and improving the cloud infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, Github Actions. Work on migration of applications from on-premises data center to AWS Cloud. Provide recommendations on upgrades and cost-cutting measures. Accountable for all aspects of deployment & technical operations including team leadership of internal and external resources. This also include teaching roles to help skill up team members to newer technologies.

Cloud DevOps Engineer at Trade Window Limited

August 1, 2022 - February 29, 2024

Design, provision and managed highly-available cloud deployments for containerized and serverless cloud applications – Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, SQS, CloudFront, Java, etc. Create automations and CI/CD systems using Jenkins for faster software delivery. Maintain, monitor and troubleshoot resources such as Linux Virtual machines – both on-cloud and on-premises data center. Help enable developers on deploying highly available mobile application on the cloud.

Senior Cloud Engineer at NNIT Philippines, Inc.

February 1, 2022 - July 1, 2022

Use SRE tools such as Azure DevOps Pipeline, Ansible, Terraform, Git, Docker, and Kubernetes to continuously build, test and deploy applications to the cloud. Part of cloud operation team to provision, manage, update, monitor, backup, and troubleshoot multiple client applications hosted on the Azure and AWS Cloud.

Part Leader at Samsung Electronics R&D Institute Philippines

January 1, 2020 - February 28, 2022

Manage a team of DevOps engineers working on different projects in AWS and GCP clouds. Assigned to managed globally available services such as Bixby MGMT and Samsung Health projects. Lead the Continous Learning Program across multiple teams to skill-up team members on newer technologies.

Author and Contributor at Tutorials Dojo Pte. Ltd.

November 1, 2018 - July 31, 2023

Create AWS review materials such as practice exams, articles, and e-books related to AWS certifications. Answers technical AWS questions in courses, forums, Slack, and social media channels. Published book: AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional Exam Study Guide.

Site Reliability Engineer at Samsung Electronics R&D Institute Philippines

March 1, 2018 - February 28, 2022

Apply DevOps tools and practices, manage high-availability architectures for high-traffic mission-critical applications, cloud migrations, operational performance/cost optimizations and monitoring solutions with set SLI/SLO. Work with microservices architecture – Docker and Kubernetes. Design and build AWS cloud architecture for modern web applications - EC2, S3, Fargate, EKS, RDS, DynamoDB, Route 53. Work with application deployments with IaC and automation (Git, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet) using CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, CircleCI, Spinnaker), Python, bash scripting. 2018 - Service Lead; 2020 - Part Leader.

Service Lead at Samsung Electronics R&D Institute Philippines

January 1, 2018 - December 31, 2019

Linux Administrator at US Auto Parts Network (Philippines) Corp.

June 1, 2014 - July 31, 2015

Manage bare metal servers on co-located data centers in the US operation: RackSpace and CoreSite. Servers are mostly Linux web (Apache, Nginx, PHP) and database (MySQL) for e-commerce applications; installation, configuration, maintenance, backup, monitoring, and 24x7 on-call operations. Setup AWS Cloud environment (EC2, S3) to augment computing resources as required by the company.

Systems Engineer at Apollo Global Corporation

May 1, 2012 - May 31, 2014

On-premises datacenter operations, installation and configuration of bare-metal Linux Servers: Email, Web servers, Database servers, DNS servers, Storage and backup servers. Design, build and deploy Virtual Machines on bare metal servers for mission critical applications. Writing Linux scripts for automation and configuring backups. Update and configure data center network primarily using Cisco devices. Connecting clients with network peer-to-peer and VPNs to the company network.