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Don K.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - "Top Rated" freelancer with over $300K in completed AWS cloud engineering overlapping with DevOps on Upwork, and other sales funnels. Specializing in AWS and can speak multi-cloud (can quickly pivot to equivalent of AWS services on Azure and GCP). Proven success in cloud engineering, infrastructure migration, system administration, disaster recovery, database management, and long-term support. CORE TECHNICAL SKILLS • Cloud & Infrastructure Tools: Amazon Web Services (EC2, RDS [AWS Aurora/MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL], AWS DynamoDB, IaC (AWS CloudFormation and others), CI/CD, S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, Lambda, SES, DMS, ECR, ECS Fargate), exposure to Azure and GCP environments. • Containers: Docker, EKS, ECS Fargate, containerized microservice operations • System Operations: Linux/Windows Server Admin, AWS CloudWatch, Uptime/Performance Tuning, Disaster Recovery • Databases: MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle, AWS RDS • Networking & Security: AWS IAM, VPC, Security Groups, WAF, SSH, SFTP, Cloudfront DNS • Tools: Bash, Git, Bitbucket, AWS CodePipeline, Travis, WordPress Migration, Sendy, Docker, containerized automation workflows

🇺🇸Atlanta, United States$85/hr100% JSS4.63 (49)Since Jun 2015

Earnings and projects

MRR
$4.2k

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#7,209 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#2,238 / 62.1k
Revenue, last 30 days
$5.5k

Last 6 months: $25k

World#4,752 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#1,618 / 62.1k
Total earnings
$399k

Billed in all: $421k

World#4,456 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#1,358 / 62.1k
Per project
$4.3k

$2.5k in the last 6 months

World#39,874 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#6,631 / 62.1k
Projects, last 6 months
10

Across 11 contracts

27% fixed73% hourly
World#18,298 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#2,788 / 62.1k
Projects in all
92

Across 108 contracts

27% fixed73% hourly
World#30,942 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#4,899 / 62.1k

Earnings, last 30 days

$421k+$5.5k earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$415k$420k$425kOct 8Oct 23Nov 7

Skill rankings: Top 2% in MySQL

Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.

  1. #4Amazon Aurora40 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #1Top 10%
  2. #14Relational Database218 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #5Top 6%
  3. #24Amazon DynamoDB464 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #2Top 5%
  4. #25AWS CloudFormation595 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #7Top 4%
  5. #32Amazon S31,028 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #4Top 3%
  6. #52Amazon EC21,513 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #12Top 3%
  7. #56Cloud Computing1,432 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #15Top 4%
  8. #89Linux System Administration2,578 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #21Top 3%