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Najwan Octavian Gerrard.

Building scalable cloud systems and elegant interfaces with a quiet, editorial approach.

Technical Skills

A compact view of the cloud, infrastructure, automation, data, and scripting tools I use most often in practical work.

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Cloud

Platform and infrastructure orchestration across private and public cloud systems.

  • OpenStack
  • Kubernetes
  • Ceph
  • AWS
  • Traefik
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Automation

Provisioning, deployment, and release automation for repeatable delivery pipelines.

  • Ansible
  • Terraform
  • Jenkins
  • AWS CloudFormation
  • GitLab CI/CD
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Containerization

Lightweight packaging for portable workloads and reliable application delivery.

  • Docker
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Monitoring

Observability stacks to track system health, logs, and performance signals.

  • ELK Stack
  • Grafana
  • Prometheus
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Networking

Core network fundamentals for connectivity, segmentation, and secure traffic flow.

  • Routing
  • Switching
  • Subnetting
  • Firewalls
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Scripting

Shell-first tooling for automation, configuration, and operational scripting.

  • Linux
  • Bash
  • YAML
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Database

Relational and NoSQL storage systems for applications, analytics, and cloud services.

  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • AWS RDS
  • AWS DynamoDB
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Programming

General-purpose programming for automation, data processing, and solution building.

  • Python
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Internet of Things (IoT)

Device-level prototyping with sensors and embedded development workflows.

  • Arduino
  • Sensor
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Data Science & Analytics

Practical analysis workflows from EDA and statistics to entry-level machine learning.

  • Pandas
  • NumPy
  • Matplotlib
  • Seaborn
  • SQL (SELECT, GROUP BY, Functions)
  • Statistics for Data Science
  • Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)
  • Machine Learning

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Thoughts on architecture, cloud systems, and delivery process.

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