Technical Development Journey

A focused training hub documenting hands-on progression across cloud infrastructure, automation, and AI operations.

Purpose & Background

This site acts as a central hub for structured technical training programmes, documenting deliberate, hands-on development across cloud infrastructure, automation, and operations.

After several years working in network operations and people management, followed by time away from hands-on engineering during maternity leave, I am spending focused time strengthening my technical depth.

The 12-week technical depth programme is a structured way of deliberately refreshing and deepening practical skills in networking, Linux, cloud, automation, and reliability while staying current with the platforms and practices that underpin modern production systems.

Eirini 12-Week Technical Depth Programme

Cloud, infrastructure & automation foundations

A structured programme designed to rebuild and deepen hands-on engineering capability across networking, Linux, AWS, Terraform, Ansible, containers, and observability.

  • AWS architecture & networking
  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
  • Configuration management (Ansible)
  • Containers, CI/CD & observability

NVIDIA AI Infrastructure & Operations

GPU & AI workload operations

A focused certification programme covering GPU infrastructure, container orchestration for AI workloads, and operational patterns for running inference and training systems in production.

  • GPU architecture & orchestration
  • Kubernetes with GPU workloads
  • Inference & production AI operations
  • Monitoring & operational readiness

AWS Solutions Architect Associate

7-Week Certification Programme

Deep dive into AWS architecture patterns with particular focus on edge computing services. Builds on an existing AWS foundation to achieve SAA-C03 certification.

  • Edge computing & IoT services
  • High availability & disaster recovery design
  • Security & compliance architecture patterns
  • Container orchestration (ECS/EKS) & serverless
  • Hands-on portfolio project with edge devices

HashiCorp Terraform Associate

3-Week Certification Programme

Infrastructure-as-Code expertise for modern deployment patterns, focusing on declarative infrastructure management and automation at scale.

  • Terraform fundamentals & state management
  • Reusable modules for infrastructure patterns
  • Multi-environment deployment strategies
  • Distributed infrastructure automation
  • Version-controlled infrastructure workflows

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

6-Week Certification Programme

Industry-standard Kubernetes certification consolidating knowledge from my Eirini-12 Week-Training Programme K8s foundations, AWS EKS experience, and NVIDIA GPU orchestration. Focused on production cluster administration.

  • Cluster architecture & component management
  • Workload scheduling & resource optimization
  • Storage, networking, and security in production
  • Troubleshooting & performance tuning
  • Production operations & operational best practices