Intro

Thomas Hamer Thomas Hamer

I live and breathe travelling, you can see where I have been on the map in my contact page, by zooming right out.

I love snowboarding. I have spent a few seasons boarding in southern Europe. and recently went to Hakuba, Japan.

Thomas Hamer

I am an AWS specialist, and I really enjoy the work that I do.





Reading List:

  • The Gulag Archipelago | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • Don't Tell Mom I Work on the Rigs | Paul Carter
  • Moral Mazes | Robert Jackall
  • The New Puritans | Andrew Doyle
  • The Parasitic Mind | Gad Saad
  • Stealing the corner office | Brendan Reid
  • Ordinary Men | Christopher Browning
  • Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky | Naum Chomsky
  • Power: Why Some People Have It—and Others Don't | Jeffrey Pfeffer
  • On Killing | Dave Grossman
  • Man's Search for Meaning | Viktor Frankl
  • Body Language | Alan and Barbara Pease
  • Military Strategy: A general theory of power control | J.C.Wylie
  • A First-Rate Madness | Nassir Ghaemi
  • The games people play | Eric Berne
  • Beyond good and evil | Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Never split the difference | Chris Voss
  • More to come later

about

Lifespan

I have been alive for
.

The average human lifespan is 83 years, so, I have approximately

left to make the positive impact I want on the world.

Vital stats



Visited Countries

Work

Introduction:

Education

Certifications

  •   AWS Solutions Architect Professional
  •   AWS Solutions Architect Associate
  •   AWS SysOps Administrator Associate
  •   AWS Developer Associate
  •   AWS Cloud Practitioner
  •   Hashicorp Terraform Associate

Skills

Currently working in the financial sector building AWS Magic.
During the time I previously spent working in consulting, I have cared for companies that would be described as household names, and mid to large size companies.

Healthcare, Banking and Finance, Blockchain, Mining, Oil and Gas, Telecommunications, Retail, and Food & Beverage. Ive assisted in taking care of large complex systems.

I am the founder of the Zero-Days Meetup. I gave a talk here on SSH:

  •   AWSCLI
  •   Linux
  •   Windows
  •   Bash/ZSH scripting
  •   SSH
  •   Python
  •   Java
  •   C++
  •   Git
  •   CICD

I created some really amazing projects for some very cool people.

Project A:

Using AWS Amplify, we made a Netflix style service to help the elderly to enjoy tailored content made just for them. Using an AWS template we created a service that could take uploads from a web portal that was protected by AWS Cognito, we can upload video content to an S3 bucket for processing with the media encoder service. That encoded footage is put in a new bucket for consumption by cloudfront when users login. The data is tracked by putting metadata into a Dynamo table. The application was written in React.

Services

  • AWS Amplify
  • AWS CodeCommit
  • AWS Cognito
  • AWS DynamoDB
  • AWS S3
  • AWS Lambda
  • AWS Elemental MediaConvert
  • AWS Elemental MediaLive
  • AWS Cloudfront
  • AWS Cloudwatch
  • AWS AppSync
  • AWS Route53
Video on demand

Project B:

I helped an IT security company to fully uplift all their infrastructure into an up to date, considered and designed three tier VPC.
NAT Gateways, Application load balancers with AWS Cognito + MFA. Uplifted all their current applications. Setup instance profiles, Systems Manager, and cloudwatch agents. New applications were rolled out to new infrastructure, and major version updates for Gitlab, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Wazuh, Greenbone Security Manager, Nessus, and Gophish.

Services

  • AWS VPC
  • AWS Route53
  • AWS EC2
  • AWS SSM
  • AWS Cognito
  • AWS S3
  • AWS IAM
  • AWS ACM
  • AWS RDS
  • AWS CloudWatch
  • AWS Backup

VPC

The majority of my work code is in private repos.

Services

Photo by mike gieson from FreeImages

I can help you to achieve your goals too.

Freelancing: If you are looking for help to build your infrastructure service, or you are looking for assistance to design your idea to run in AWS, get in touch with me on the contact page.

Coaching: If you are looking for someone to give you some training in a friendly laid back flexible way, I can help you with that. I can do out of business hours coaching on weekends or after hours.

Contact me here.