Samuel Hai
Cloud Engineering

Samuel Hai

Skilled in multicloud architecture supporting data engineering and AI.
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About

Samuel Hai is an experienced infrastructure architect with expertise in hybrid and multicloud architecture supporting data engineering and AI. He has over five years of experience working within a cloud infrastructure and 11 years working with general IT infrastructure. He worked recently at 66degrees as a technical lead and implementation engineer for large enterprise clients across multiple verticals. He had been working for a while with SHI International Corp., wherein he started as a Presales Cloud Solution Architect and was eventually promoted as their Cloud Systems Engineer. He guided key application owners on load balancing options for multiple IIS servers and on a re-platforming strategy into Azure Web Apps.

Employment

4 roles
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023 1 year 9 months
Cloud Architect
66degrees
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023 1 year 9 months
Cloud Architect
66degrees
  • Implemented multiple Looker POCs for a national auto parts retailer to improve infrastructure observability and business process visibility.
  • Deployed multiple Anthos POCs, including Anthos Bare Metal and Anthos on AWS.
  • Supervised a brownfield deployment of ML and web microservices in GKE, and deployed a Terraform—based secure landing zone for a Biotech company.
  • Assisted in the development of image and ML—based solutions catered to retail inventory management.
  • Implemented CI and CD pipelines with GitHub, Cloud Build, and Cloud Deploy.
  • Designed self—testing Cloud Build configurations as part of CI/CD pipelines.
  • Supervised a migration of over 1500 VMs into GCE, BigQuery, and Cloud SQL. Converted migrated resources to IaC with Terraformer. Implemented automated monitoring and logging alerts for increased governance.
  • Wrote Terraform for Cloud Composer, Dataproc, and Dataflow Replatformed Kafka into Cloud Pub/Sub.
Dec 2020 - Apr 2021 4 months
Cloud Solutions Consultant
K2 Partnering Solutions
  • Assigned as Cloud DR Architect at a leading IT consultancy.
  • Led a multi-site CloudEndure deployment for a manufacturing company.


Jan 2020 - Nov 2020 10 months
Cloud Systems Engineer
SHI International Corp.


  • Deployed Azure WVD and AWS Workspaces to facilitate remote work/learning during COVID —19 outbreak.
  • Ran root cause analysis on simultaneous connectivity issues involving AWS Application Load Balancer, Apache servers, Azure Application Gateway, and Azure Web App health check failures.
  • Migrated multiple projects from TFS to Azure DevOps Services.
  • Performed a complex EC2 generation upgrade to accelerate SMTP relay performance by 80%.
  • Authorized XML— based and C#— integrated TOTP policy for Azure AD B2C to help achieve PCI and GDPR compliance.
  • Implemented anomaly detection using CloudWatc h on multiple types of deployments.
  • Deployed custom RBAC policies for Azure Cost Management to over 800 Azure subscriptions under multiple tenants.
  • Co-authored WVD and ACM deployment Powershell script.
  • Positioned a highly available hub—and—spoke VPN that connected 2 datacenters, 2 branch offices, and 1 2 VPCs., and implemented Panorama for monitoring, reporting, and alerting
  • Implemented and upgraded multiple Direct Connect circuits, including hosted circuits and circuits requiring third—party routers.
  • Utilized CloudHealth to monitor, automate, and optimize AWS and Azure architectures. Saved customers an average of 18% of cloud costs.

Education

Jan 2008 - Jan 2010 2 years
Bachelor of Science, Economics
The University of Texas
Jan 2006 - Jan 2008 2 years
Degree, Economics
Case Western Reserve University

Portfolio

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