Mandy Reed
☁️ IT Support Professional | Cloud Engineering Portfolio
AWS • Linux • Docker • Jenkins • Docker Compose • GitHub Actions • CI/CD • Cloud Troubleshooting
🚀 Explore My Projects
☁️ IT Support Professional | Cloud Engineering Portfolio
AWS • Linux • Docker • Jenkins • Docker Compose • GitHub Actions • CI/CD • Cloud Troubleshooting
🚀 Explore My ProjectsI am an IT professional with 18 years of experience supporting users in enterprise environments and 21 years with Allstate. My background includes technical support, troubleshooting, customer service, documentation, problem-solving, and supporting business-critical technology.
I am expanding that experience into cloud engineering through hands-on projects using AWS, Linux, Docker, Jenkins, Docker Compose, GitHub Actions, automation, monitoring, and CI/CD. My projects focus not only on building cloud solutions, but also on understanding how services connect, troubleshooting failures, working with container lifecycle and persistent storage, documenting lessons learned, and improving the reliability of the environments I build.
This portfolio is built with HTML and CSS, maintained in GitHub, stored in Amazon S3, and delivered securely through Amazon CloudFront. Amazon Route 53 provides DNS routing for the custom domain, while AWS Certificate Manager provides the TLS certificate used for HTTPS.
AWS Certificate Manager secures both mandyreed.com and www.mandyreed.com with HTTPS. Source code and version history are maintained in GitHub.
Built and managed Jenkins in Docker while exploring container lifecycle, persistent storage, Docker Compose, and custom image creation. Tested data persistence by intentionally removing and recreating Jenkins containers, then built a custom Jenkins image using a Dockerfile and verified the customization with curl inside the running container.
View Repository Read Project StoryDesigned and deployed this cloud engineering portfolio using Amazon S3, CloudFront, Route 53, and AWS Certificate Manager. Configured a custom domain with DNS routing and HTTPS/TLS, maintained source control through GitHub, and troubleshot deployment, caching, domain registration, DNS, and content delivery issues.
View Live Portfolio View RepositoryBuilt a CI/CD-style workflow using GitHub, Amazon S3, and Amazon Bedrock.
View RepositoryCreated an AWS pipeline using Amazon Transcribe, Translate, Polly, Lambda, and S3.
View RepositoryBuilt an image-processing workflow using Amazon Rekognition, DynamoDB, Lambda, and S3.
View RepositoryCreated a serverless text-to-speech solution using Amazon Polly, Lambda, API Gateway, and S3.
View RepositoryBuilt and deployed a static website using Amazon S3, CloudFront, and CodePipeline.
View RepositoryCreated a GitHub Actions workflow that validates required repository files and logs results to Amazon CloudWatch.
View RepositoryI document my cloud and DevOps projects, lessons learned, and troubleshooting experiences through Medium articles.
A hands-on Docker and Jenkins story covering container lifecycle, persistent volumes, Docker Compose, custom Docker images, and the surprisingly useful lesson that deleting a container does not have to mean deleting your data.
Read ArticleA behind-the-scenes look at building and deploying this cloud engineering portfolio with Amazon S3, CloudFront, and GitHub, including the deployment and caching issues I troubleshot along the way.
Read ArticleA Docker troubleshooting story about containers, local environments, and learning why consistency matters.
Read ArticleA walkthrough of a multilingual AWS pipeline using Transcribe, Translate, Polly, Lambda, S3, and CloudWatch.
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