Artur Carter

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Zak Abdel-Illah
Automation Enthusiast
  • 📍 Location
    🇬🇧 London
Certifications
  • AWS Solutions Architect - Associate
Languages
  • Python
  • Go
Technologies
  • Ansible
  • Linux
  • Terraform
  • Kubernetes

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🚀 8 Years Professional Experience

Solutions Architecture
@ Next Pixel Entertainment

Hybrid cloud solutions leveraging IaC, containerization, golden image creation, observability, microservices, and server-less technologies.

VFX Pipeline Engineer
@ MPC VFX; ON Animation Studios & Outpost VFX

Houdini, Nuke & Katana workflows, rendering and cloud infrastructure, color management, optimizations, package management and leadership.

DevOps Engineer
@ Next Pixel Entertainment

Infrastructure automation leveraging Packer, Ansible, and Terraform, micro-service orchestration with Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipeline provisioning.

✍️ Articles

Provisioning Grafana on DigitalOcean Kubernetes Service
December 12, 2024 / DigitalOcean, Observability
Provisioning Grafana on DigitalOcean Kubernetes Service

I deployed Grafana with multiple data sources to DOKS using Helm & Terraform.

Deploying AWS Site-to-Site on OpenWRT
December 10, 2024 / Ansible, Automation, AWS, Cloud, DevOps, Terraform
Deploying AWS Site-to-Site on OpenWRT

I connected OpenWRT to AWS using IPSec, BGP, Ansible and Terraform.

Bus route-finding with PostGIS and ArangoDB
Bus route-finding with PostGIS and ArangoDB

I created a bus route finding tool using PostGIS and ArangoDB

Streaming a bike riders’ journey with AWS MediaLive
November 25, 2024 / AWS, Cloud
Streaming a bike riders’ journey with AWS MediaLive

I plan to create a live streaming setup for bike journeys using GoPro and AWS.

Deploying Region-locked AWS Organizations using Terraform
October 7, 2024 / AWS, Cloud, Terraform
Deploying Region-locked AWS Organizations using Terraform

As a solutions architect, I was tasked with building an AWS Organizations hierarchy for a Canadian startup that needed to…

Idea: Adopting Serverless for Trading Operations
October 5, 2024 / AWS, Cloud, R&D
Idea: Adopting Serverless for Trading Operations

I’m not very into day-trading, but I see the potential in the market from time to time, so I came…

Outline: Extending a home network setup in AWS
September 22, 2024 / AWS, Cloud, Terraform
Outline: Extending a home network setup in AWS

As someone without a permanent base, I needed a secure and flexible cloud infrastructure that allowed me to spawn powerful…

Overview: Extending my home network to the cloud
September 11, 2024 / AWS, Cloud, DigitalOcean, Exoscale, IoT
Overview: Extending my home network to the cloud

I deployed the services I run at home to the cloud due to constant relocation.

Exoscale Exporter for Prometheus
September 4, 2024 / Exoscale, Observability
Exoscale Exporter for Prometheus

I’d built a Prometheus exporter for Exoscale, allowing me to visualize cloud spending and resource usage from a central location alongside AWS and DigitalOcean.

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