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
Earnings and projects
Last 6 months ÷ 6
Last 6 months: $25k
Billed in all: $420,594$421k
$2.5k in the last 6 months
Across 11 contracts
Across 108 contracts
Earnings, last 30 days
Skill rankings: Top 2% in MySQL
Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.
- #4Amazon Aurora40 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #1Top 10%🇺🇸#1 of 9
- #14Relational Database218 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #5Top 6%🇺🇸#5 of 62
- #24Amazon DynamoDB464 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #2Top 5%🇺🇸#2 of 47
- #25AWS CloudFormation595 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #7Top 4%🇺🇸#7 of 85
- #32Amazon S31,028 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #4Top 3%🇺🇸#4 of 109
- #52Amazon EC21,513 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #12Top 3%🇺🇸#12 of 155
- #56Cloud Computing1,432 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #15Top 4%🇺🇸#15 of 235
- #89Linux System Administration2,578 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #21Top 3%🇺🇸#21 of 321