Jenade Moodley

Cloud Engineer

Seasoned Cloud Engineer with experience in Cloud, System, and Software Engineering. Bachelor of Science Honours in Computer Science from university of Kwa-Zulu Natal. Skilled in Cloud Architecture, Linux System Engineering, Technical Support, Technical Training, and Containers. Based in Durban, South Africa

Work

Amazon Web Services

Cloud Support Engineer II
– Present

My role at AWS is to resolve diverse and in-depth customer support queries, focusing on large enterprise customers, including Fortune 500 companies, with complex environments and architecture. I also mentored, trained, and upskilled engineers within the organization, and focused on support engineering projects.

  • Pioneer for the AWS Premium Support Andon Program (PSAP) in Cape Town

  • Quality Champion - Evaluate the quality and appropriateness of Support correspondences of engineers

  • Member of ECS (Elastic Container Service) Support Operations

  • Leader of the ECS Pioneer initiative which trained AWS engineers globally on Docker, containerization, and ECS/Fargate

  • ECS Subject Matter Expert - Proved deep technical expertise on using and troubleshooting ECS, capable of answering in-depth queries and further develop the ECS service offered by AWS

Cloud Support Engineer I
Cloud Support Associate
Graduate Cloud Support Associate

University of Kwa-Zulu Natal

Student Tutor

At UKZN I assisted the Computer Science faculty by tutoring students, facilitating exams, and graded assignments and assessments

  • Assisted in teaching of tutorials and practicals

  • Graded assignments and practical assessments

  • Facilitated tests and exams

Education

University of Kwa-Zulu Natal

Computer Science

Bachelor of Science Honours (Summa Cum Laude)

Courses
  • Computer Science (Advanced)

Awards

Wise Guru Award

Awarded by AWS Support Engineering

This award is for engineers who are pivotal in the team's mentoring and training efforts.

Certificates

Linux+

Issued by CompTIA

Publications

Weather Characterization from Outdoor Scene Images

Published by International Conference on Computer Vision and Graphics

Research paper presenting a variety of techniques to characterize outdoor scene images into their respective weather components; the sky condition (sunny or cloudy), the presence of rain, and the visibility.

Skills

Linux

  • RedHat
  • CentOS
  • Ubuntu
  • Kernel
  • Debugging
  • Troubleshooting

Cloud Architecture

  • AWS
  • VPC
  • EC2
  • ECS
  • ECR
  • Fargate
  • RDS
  • EFS
  • ElastiCache
  • EKS
  • Batch
  • ELB
  • IAM
  • CloudFormation
  • XRay
  • S3

Systems Engineering

  • Networking
  • Load Balancing
  • Web Applications
  • Nginx
  • Apache
  • MySQL
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • IaC

Programming

  • Java
  • Python
  • C++
  • PHP
  • JavaScript

Languages

English

Native speaker

Afrikaans

Limited working proficiency

Interests

Gaming

  • Open World RPG

Hiking

  • Beautiful Scenery