I'm Elijah Cea.
Nice to meet you!
I'm a self-taught Cloud & Software Engineer who enjoys learning through challenges. I'm on a lifelong journey of overcoming imposter syndrome just like everyone else! 😳
Featured Projects
Preuve Ecommerce Storefront
I've always wanted to start a clothing brand, but I'd need a ecommerce website to showcase my creations...so I made one! You can search for products, select their variants, and add them to a persistent cart. This project also exposes Next.js API routes, protected by Auth0, that are consumed by the Preuve Admin site to perform CRUD operations reflected on the storefront. Check it out!
Preuve Admin
Now that I had a sleek storefront, I needed a way to manage the products to be put on display. Thus came about the Preuve Admin project! A Vue.js SPA where users can create and manage products, variants, and collections using the APIs exposed by the Preuve Storefront Next.js project. Persistent operations require authentication and authorization enforced by Auth0. Take a look!
Experience
CloudHesive
Cloud Engineer
May 2023 - Present
Implemented an ECS Blue/Green deployment workflow using Terraform, Lambda, and CloudWatch to automate application testing, monitoring, and rollback, reducing deployment-induced downtime for 20+ business-critical applications across 4 environments.
Architected a multi-region Pilot Light DR environment for an enterprise EV charging network (Terraform, ECS, DocumentDB Global Clusters, Bitbucket Pipelines), reaching tested recovery times of under one hour with an initial target RPO/RTO of 24 hours.
Engineered infrastructure automation for a large-scale lift-and-shift migration to AWS for a federal loan servicer, building reusable Terraform modules that reduced manual provisioning across multiple environments.
System Administrator
May 2022 - May 2023
Configured proactive vulnerability alerting and monitoring (GuardDuty, CloudWatch, EventBridge, SNS) across SMB AWS environments, reducing mean detection time for security vulnerabilities.
Maintained SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance across multiple client AWS environments by auditing controls, remediating violations, and documenting evidence, supporting successful audits with zero outstanding findings.
Initiated internal integration of Microsoft 365 by onboarding business applications to Single Sign-On (SSO) and enrolling employee workstations in Microsoft Intune for centralized device management, enhancing corporate data security and standardizing access to company tooling.