Certifications & Skills

I've never been someone who collects certifications for the sake of it. Every cert here represents a problem I was trying to solve or a domain I needed to go deeper in. When I earned all available AWS certifications — including early adopter badges for the AI and generative AI tracks — it wasn't a checkbox exercise. It was the natural result of spending a decade building on AWS across security, networking, data, machine learning, and contact center. The CISSP and CCSP came from years of being the person in the room during SOC and PCI audits. The FinOps cert came from needing to have honest conversations with customers about what cloud actually costs. The tools and platforms listed here aren't things I've read about — they're things I've deployed, debugged at 2 AM, and built products on top of.

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AWS Certifications

AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty (Renewed 2023) aws certification networking
AWS Certified AI Practitioner (Early Adopter) aws certification ai
AWS Certified Alexa Skill Builder – Specialty (Issued at Release) aws certification ai
AWS Certified Big Data – Specialty (Issued at Release) aws certification data
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (Renewed 2023) aws certification cloud
AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer aws certification devops
AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty (Renewed 2023) aws certification data
AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate (Beta) aws certification data
AWS Certified Database – Specialty (Renewed 2023) aws certification data
AWS Certified Developer – Associate (Renewed 2023) aws certification development
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (Renewed 2023) aws certification devops
AWS Certified Generative AI Developer – Professional (Early Adopter) aws certification ai generative-ai
AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty (Renewed 2023) aws certification machine-learning
AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate (Early Adopter) aws certification ai machine-learning
AWS Certified SAP on AWS – Specialty aws certification enterprise
AWS Certified Security – Specialty (Issued at Release, Renewed 2023) aws certification security
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (Renewed 2023) aws certification architecture
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (Renewed 2023) aws certification architecture
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (Renewed 2023) aws certification devops

Other Certifications

Amazon Connect Ambassador aws contact-center
Anynode Basic and Advanced certification telephony
Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK) certification security cloud
CMMC Registered Practitioner certification security compliance
Datadog Certified: CloudSIEM for AWS Fundamentals certification security monitoring
Datadog Certified: Datadog Fundamentals certification monitoring
Datadog Demo Certification certification monitoring
DPN Support Specialist Certification certification monitoring
EUC on AWS Ambassador aws end-user-computing
FinOps Certified Practitioner certification cloud finops
ISC2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) certification security cloud
ISC2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification security
ITIL V3 Practitioner Certified certification operations
K8SUG Certified Awstronaut certification kubernetes community

Cloud & Virtualization

AWS, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, IBM Cloud, Google Cloud (GCP), Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop, VMWare, CloudFlare, Akamai cloud aws azure virtualization

Software Development & DevOps

Jira, Confluence, GitHub, Stash, RPM, Artifactory, NPM, Packer, Jenkins, Ansible, Octopus, Gradle, jMeter, BlazeMeter, Docker, Elastic, PowerShell, Bash, Python, JavaScript (Node.js), Serverless devops development automation

Application & Database

Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, MySQL, Postgres, Apache, Nginx, HAProxy, Tomcat, Weblogic, Websphere, IIS, MongoDB, Redis, Bedrock, Q data development ai

Security

AlertLogic, Trend Micro Deep Security/Cloud Conformity, Thales/Vormetric DSM, Safenet/CryptoCard, Duo, Okta, Tenable.io/Nessus security monitoring

Monitoring & Analysis

CloudCheckr, Cloudability, CloudHealth, Datadog, SumoLogic, NewRelic, OpsGenie, Zenoss, Splunk, tcpdump/Wireshark monitoring finops operations

Contact Center, CRM & ERP

Oracle CCA, Oracle CRM On Demand, Siebel CRM, SalesForce, Verint, PegaRules (PRPC), NetSuite, RingCentral, Amazon Connect, Lex, ServiceNow, Microsoft Dynamics contact-center crm

Telephony

Nortel Meridian, Avaya Communication Manager, Brooktrout & Dialogic T1 cards, Quintum Tenor, Adtran, Asterisk, anynode telephony contact-center

Network Services

Microsoft Windows Services (DNS, DHCP, SMTP, RDP, AD), Linux Services (BIND, cPanel/WHM), Routing, Firewalling, Subnetting, SNMP, WMI networking operations

Firewalls, Load Balancers, Routers, Switches & Wireless

Checkpoint, Juniper, Cisco, Brocade Vyatta, Citrix Netscaler, Cohesive Networks networking security

Storage

SoftNAS, Zadara, CommVault, Veeam, Druva cloud operations

Operating Systems

Windows, Linux (Amazon, RHEL, OEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian) operations

Office Productivity

Slack, Joan, Lucid operations