Rick Ellis

Rick Ellis

Cloud Architect

Houston
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Summary

I help companies build awesome, future-ready cloud apps.

Experience

2019 Mar - Present
Cloud Architect/ Tech Lead
Independent Consultant / Houston

Currently working with a private startup on building out DevOps and their cloud based education platform, which will support activity types across multiple user roles and user, with integrated cloud security for authentication and incremental authorization. The platform uses a host of cloud services including CosmosDB, Blobs, CDN, Queues, Serverless Functions, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Load Balancing, Auto scaling and the MERN stack. The client front end is comprised of a lightning fast SPA progressive app for the end users, delivering audio and video media content, communications as push notifications, purchases, scheduling and profile management. The platform also has a rich desktop admin interface for content creation and management.

Education

1994 - 1996
Brooklyn College
Unfinished / Computer Science

I have a very strong Computer Science and Polymath background. Unfortunately I couldn't finish the degree at the time as life got in the way.

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