Infrastructure & Cloud Engineering | Recent Computer Science Graduate — Colorado State University (Networks & Security)
I'm a recent Computer Science graduate focused on infrastructure engineering, cloud computing, and automation. I enjoy building reliable, secure systems using AWS, Linux, Terraform, Python, and Docker while applying security best practices throughout the infrastructure lifecycle.
My flagship project is a production-patterned AWS infrastructure platform featuring Infrastructure as Code, containerized workloads on ECS Fargate, automated incident response, and a secure CI/CD pipeline. I'm currently seeking entry-level Infrastructure, Cloud, Platform, or DevOps engineering opportunities where I can continue building production experience.
GitHub: https://github.com/Zach-Maestas/aws-security-ops-pipeline
Production-patterned AWS infrastructure platform featuring:
- Multi-tier VPC architecture
- Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
- Containerized applications on ECS Fargate
- Automated incident response using EventBridge, Lambda, and SNS
- Secure GitHub Actions CI/CD with OIDC federation
- Four security gates: Gitleaks, Checkov, Trivy, and Terraform validation
- Single-command deployment and teardown
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
- HashiCorp Terraform Associate (003/004)
- CompTIA Security+
- CompTIA Network+
- AWS: VPC, EC2, ECS Fargate, ALB, RDS, S3, Route 53
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
- Linux
- Docker
- IAM, STS, SCPs, Permission Boundaries
- GuardDuty, Security Hub
- Secrets Manager, KMS
- CloudWatch, CloudTrail
- EventBridge, Systems Manager, AWS Config
- TCP/IP
- DNS
- Routing & Subnetting
- Security Groups & NACLs
- VPN Fundamentals
- GitHub Actions
- OIDC Federation
- Python (boto3)
- Bash
- Least-Privilege IAM
- Infrastructure Security
- Secret Detection
- Container Scanning
- Infrastructure as Code Security
- SAST