Credentials

Seven certifications, and what each one is for.

I sit exams when the material maps to work I am already doing or about to take on, so the list tracks the shape of my career rather than a collection. Three clouds, infrastructure as code, and security baselines for federal delivery.

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AWS Certified DevOps Engineer AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional

The closest match to what I do daily: delivery pipelines, infrastructure automation, monitoring and incident response at scale.

AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer Associate

Covers the SageMaker and MLOps side of my work, from training and tracking through to deployment and model monitoring.

AWS Certified Developer AWS Certified Developer Associate

The application layer. Useful because platform engineers who cannot write the service rarely design good platforms for it.

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate · HCTA0-003

Infrastructure as code is how every environment I run is defined. Reusable modules, reviewed and versioned like any other software.

CompTIA Security+ CompTIA Security+ Certified

The DoD 8570 baseline for federal work, and the vocabulary that makes conversations with security teams productive rather than adversarial.

CompTIA Linux+ CompTIA Linux+ Certified

Everything above eventually runs on Linux. Knowing the layer underneath saves a great deal of guessing.

CompTIA A+ CompTIA A+ Certified

Where it started. Hardware and fundamentals, long before any of the rest of this.