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Emma King

DevOps Engineer

Summary

DevOps and software engineer who has worked across multiple industries and dozens of client projects. My focus is cloud infrastructure, automation, and CI/CD, and over the years I've designed pipelines, built cloud architecture, tightened security, and kept business-critical applications running smoothly. I'm motivated by complex technical challenges and care deeply about reliability and efficiency. My varied background across academia and industry means I naturally connect the dots between technical decisions and business needs.

Employment

Netlight

Consulting

2025 –

Orangit

Maintenance

2024 – 2025

Accenture

Consulting

2022 – 2024

Parental leave

2018-2022

University of Helsinki

Chemistry Lab Gadolin

2018

Skills

AWS CI/CD GitHub Actions Docker Bash Linux Kubernetes GCP Azure Azure DevOps Microservices Python Node.js Scrum Agile

Experience

Cloud Engineer

2025

Consulting

Built a custom data aggregation script to collect and consolidate employee feedback across the entire organization, delivering actionable insights to stakeholders over multiple years. Conducted a comprehensive audit of the company's AWS cloud environment powering an internal employee feedback platform, identifying major architectural improvements that enhanced performance, reduced costs, and improved system reliability.

AWS SQL Python Data Aggregation Cloud Audit Bash

DevOps Engineer

Q1 2024 – Q2 2025

Telecommunications Company

Played a key role in the DevOps team, designing a CI/CD workflow for an on-premises microservice architecture and improving system reliability. Actively troubleshot server issues, minimized production downtime, and created a custom solution to streamline error log analysis across multiple containers. Initiated and designed test automation for a major application, ensuring critical features could be tested without disrupting key integrations. Helped orchestrate smooth infrastructure upgrades with minimal downtime and performed critical server security maintenance updates monthly.

Docker Linux Ansible NGINX GitHub Actions Jenkins Bash Podman Helm Kubernetes React NodeJS REST API Elastic APM

Cloud Engineer

Q2 2024 – Q3 2024

Financial Services Company

Independently conducted a thorough review of a third-party compliance manual and performed a full inspection of the client's Google Cloud infrastructure. Wrote a comprehensive report on the entire infrastructure and its security aspects. Implemented necessary changes including rotating API keys with shorter lifespans, strengthening monitoring, and tightening network and security configurations. Enabled the client to proceed with a third-party audit with confidence.

Google Cloud IAM VPC Cloud Audit logs Secrets Manager KMS Cloud Armor Firebase CIS Benchmark

Software Engineer

Q1 2024 – Q3 2024

Maintenance & SRE

Ensured all client incidents were solved within Service Level Agreements for multiple small to mid-sized businesses. Provided proactive maintenance, troubleshooting, and security updates for applications. Designed and developed new features to enhance existing applications. Gained hands-on experience with a wide range of technologies and identified common bottlenecks across various clients, implementing effective solutions to improve performance and reliability.

JavaScript TypeScript React NodeJS CSS Tailwind Redis NGINX AWS GCP Azure Ansible Terraform CloudFormation

Cloud Engineer

Q2 2022 – Q1 2024

Insurance Company

Created proof-of-concept solutions for a new Infrastructure as Code architecture for the client's Kubernetes cluster. Designed and implemented a distributed load testing infrastructure using JMeter and multiple virtual machines controlled in synchrony, enabling more efficient performance testing. Maintained and improved the test automation infrastructure on AWS, ensuring stability and scalability for continuous testing needs part of the DevOps team responsible for designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines in AWS.

AWS CodePipeline EKS kubectl AWS EventBridge CloudFormation JavaScript Python JMeter Robot Framework

Education

University of Helsinki

Chemistry & Computer Science • 2016 - 2020

University of Helsinki

Educational Psychology • 2012 - 2015

Certifications

AWS Developer