Rose McConnell

I’m a cloud and DevOps focused engineer with over 4 years of experience deploying and managing infrastructure in Azure and AWS using Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines through professional and personal projects. I enjoy building repeatable environments, automating deployments, and making systems easier to operate through strong monitoring and observability.

In my Reddit Data Pipeline project, I built an end-to-end ELT workflow to ingest, transform, and analyze large-scale Reddit submission data using AWS tooling. I created Dockerized Apache Airflow workflows, implemented transformation layers in dbt on Amazon Redshift, and provisioned infrastructure with Terraform (including S3 and Redshift Serverless) to support reproducible setup and teardown.

On my FastAPI Journal project, I deployed containerized FastAPI and PostgreSQL workloads to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform. I implemented CI/CD using GitHub Actions and integrated Prometheus and Grafana for application and infrastructure observability, while applying cloud security best practices like Azure Key Vault secret management, encryption at rest, and least-privilege access controls.

In my recent role as a Web and Applications Developer, I developed and optimized 80+ SQL queries across MySQL and SQL Server for reporting and analytics, automated recurring data imports with PowerShell, and supported Azure DevOps CI/CD workflows. I also built and maintained Power BI dashboards, led QA testing through CMS upgrades, delivered training and documentation to staff, and supported day-to-day reliability by monitoring uptime, logs, and security—plus resolving hundreds of internal help desk tickets.