Cloud DevOps Engineer

Courtney Dahlson

AWS-certified Cloud Engineer transitioning from nursing, leveraging strong communication and analytical skills from healthcare. Acquired critical skills in an intensive Cloud DevOps bootcamp and gained hands-on experience with cloud development, automation, and infrastructure management while focused on reliability, scalability, cost efficiency, and security.

AWS

Python

Bash

Git

GitHub Actions

Docker

Terraform

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Built and deployed multiple cloud-native projects using modern tools like GitHub Actions, ECS Fargate, and Terraform.

Experienced with Infrastructure as Code and continuous delivery pipelines using Terraform and GitHub Actions.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate with hands-on cloud engineering and DevOps experience.

Created a full-stack containerized web application deployed on AWS ECS Fargate with CI/CD pipelines.

Portfolio

Projects

Serverless Asynchronous Order Processing System

Designed an asynchronous order processing system using API Gateway, Lambda, and DynamoDB; decoupled submission from processing with SQS; orchestrated with Step Functions; added CloudWatch alarms and SNS notifications; IaC via CloudFormation.

IAMAPI GatewayLambdaSQSDynamoDBStep FunctionsCloudWatchSNSCloudFormationPythonboto3

Highly Available Ecommerce Platform with DR

Architected a 3-tier HA platform using EC2 Auto Scaling in multi-AZ with ALBs, cross-region RDS replication for DR, Route 53 DNS failover with health checks, Terraform IaC, and GitHub Actions to deploy Terraform and a Python Flask app.

EC2ALBAuto ScalingNATRDSRoute 53VPCTerraformGitHub ActionsFlask

Containerized Full-Stack Web Application

Developed a full-stack app with Flask backend and Apache frontend; built Docker images and deployed to ECS Fargate; configured security groups, health checks, Route 53; used Secrets Manager for DB credentials; CI/CD with GitHub Actions; IaC via Terraform.

DockerECS FargateECRALBAuroraRoute 53Secrets ManagerTerraformGitHub ActionsFlaskApache

Writing

Articles

Understanding Docker Storage: Volumes and Bind Mounts

A deep dive into Docker's storage mechanisms — anonymous volumes, named volumes, and bind mounts — and when to use each for persistent data in containerized applications.

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Deploying Containerized Web Apps in Development Using Docker

A walkthrough of building, running, and deploying containerized web applications in a local development environment using Docker images and containers.

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Background

Experience

Cloud DevOps Bootcamp – Digital Cloud Training

Feb 2025 – Present

Focused on IT Fundamentals, Linux, Python, AWS, Terraform, and Docker.
Developed projects including infrastructure deployment using Terraform and CI/CD pipeline implementation.
Gained hands-on experience in cloud development, Python scripting, troubleshooting cloud projects, and configuring monitoring tools.

Registered Nurse (Part-time) – Interim HealthCare

Novi, MI

Aug 2025 – Present

Learned critical problem-solving skills and attention to detail while adapting to rapidly evolving situations.

Registered Nurse – Trinity Health Oakland

Pontiac, MI

Oct 2023 – Jul 2025

Implemented evidence-based practice in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment, ensuring patient safety while demonstrating empathy.
Collaborated with physicians, specialists, and other healthcare professionals to achieve optimal patient outcomes.

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