/**/About

Hi, I'm Ali Aljaffer 🙋🏽‍♂️😊

Cloud & DevOps Engineer with a passion for automation, infrastructure as code, and building scalable, reliable systems. I love system architecture diagrams. I'm super into Kubernetes and its ecosystem. I also love math. 🙃 1+1=2

I started out building web development projects and I found myself enjoying the deployment process more than the development one. I'm sharing my experience and case studies for each project as way of documenting the process for my future self, and to help inspire others that are on this path! Check out the projects section for case studies, demos, screenshots, and architecture diagrams.

/**/Certifications

  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (Dec 2025) [ Linux Foundation ]
  • Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (Dec 2025) [ Linux Foundation ]
  • Terraform Associate (Aug 2025) [ Hashicorp ]
  • Solutions Architect - Associate (July 2025) [ AWS ]
  • SC-900 Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals (Jun 2025) [ Microsoft ]
  • AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals (Jun 2025) [ Microsoft ]
  • Certified Cloud Practitioner (Jan 2025) [ AWS ]

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/**/Blog Posts

~ Newest to oldest ~

The Kubernetes learning journey (so far): Sharing thoughts after getting into the administration side of K8s (read more!)

K3s Cluster Homelab: Documenting my homelabbing journey! :) (read more!)

Collaboration on GitHub: A session I presented in DevOps bootcamp to help colleagues on how to efficiently collaboarate on GitHub. (read more!)

Author Clock/Entertainment System: Author Clock replica built on Raspberry Pi with YouTube, Spotify, and Kodi integration (read more!)

/**/Projects

Catus Locatus: Location-based pet recovery web app using React and Leaflet maps to report and view lost pets. (case study)

End-to-End Automated App Deployment on Azure: A fully automated approach with CI/CD pipelines and monitoring to deploy a three-tier application (case study)

Azure Three-Tier web app: Azure Three-Tier web app deployed using Terraform and containers (case study)

AWS Budget Notifications for Discord Channels: Receive Budget Alerts straight to your personal Discord server channel! (case study)

Body & Power Gym: Volunteer-built website for a local gym using Next.js, Docker, and Strapi CMS for fully managed and responsive content delivery. (case study)

Image Captioning with AWS and HuggingFace: A serverless image captioning app using AWS services and a HuggingFace model on SageMaker. (case study)

Tuwaiq Tracker: Responsive full-stack tracker that scrapes, stores, and displays course offerings from Tuwaiq Academy using Next.js and MongoDB. (case study)