About#

Hello everybody, I’m Nicole! Welcome to my cloud portfolio.

In short, I got started in engineering in high school. At the time I wanted to become a orchestral musician and I did everything under the sun relating to music. When a Girls Who Code program started, I wanted to join, but I was met with opposition.

You don’t have time, you can’t learn programming

And I stayed there and argued with the program teacher saying that I will make time.

Surprisingly, I ended up finishing the entire program within 3 months. Both the Robotics and Girls Who Code teachers saw how passionate I was about solving problems and how much I loved programming. I was the Lead Programmer for our First Robotics Competition Team 2070. As I was doing the electrical work alongside programming in Java, I wanted to pivot to Computer Engineering.

To this day I appreciate them both for giving me so many opportunities and encouraging me to pursue engineering. I started in engineering because I wanted to prove that I could do it and I stayed because I loved coming up with creative solutions.

Throughout my college career, I worked simultaneously as a DevOps Engineer for SPHERE Technology Solutions. I learned so much, not just how to develop code, but how to manage, build, package, and ship it. I had so many amazing mentors and team members there and it was amazing to learn from them.

Right before I graduated I gained exposure to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and I really loved cloud computing. There are so many benefits, resources, and tools to basically create anything you want. Following my graduation, I studied and built projects to support my AWS learning, and I got my first certification: AWS Cloud Practitioner!

This portfolio was built as my version of the AWS Cloud Resume Challenge by Forrest Brazeal, please enjoy and don’t hesitate to contact me for any opportunities or inquiries.