About Me: Tom Morelly

me

Hi! Im Tom Morelly, a freelancer & DevOps engineer from Berlin / Germany with ~7 years of hands-on expertise in architecting and constructing resilient automation platforms leveraging state-of-the art technologies and concepts.

I have in-depth knowledge of infrastructure automation, specifically Git, Ansible and HashiCorp products such as Packer, Terraform, Vault. I successfully operated in both cloud-based (Azure) and on-premises (OpenStack, VmWare) containerized environments.

I am passionate about Linux, Open Source and dedicated to continuous self-education and enhancement.

You can download my CV

Skills

Over the past years, I managed to specialize in the following skills:

  • SCM (Git, Semantic Releaser, mkdocs)
  • Linux (Bash/Shell, System Administration, RHEL)
  • IaC (Terraform (Enterprise), Packer)
  • Config Management (Ansible)
  • CI/CD (GitLab, GitHub, Azure DevOps)
  • Cloud (Azure, OpenStack)
  • Container (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm)
  • Programming (Golang, Terraform Provider Development, Python, Java)
  • Security (Vault (Enterprise), Boundary)

Projects

During my time as a DevOps engineer, I had the chance to work in some exicting and promising projects, such as:

  • Lead Terraform Automation Developer for a bare-metal automation platform, including the test-driven development of various Terraform Providers & Modules orchestrated using Terraform Enterprise and Gitlab, allowing the customer to efficiently provision compute, network and storage resources for its customers.

  • Integration of HashiCorp Vault for Kubernetes Secrets & Certificate Management (PKI), enforcing a secure, flexible & modular approach for handling sensitive data within Kubernetes environments and meeting the customer compliance standards.

  • Design and automation of a HashiCorp Vault Enterprise Cluster within a highly regulated sector using Ansible & Terraform for MySQL Enterprise Transparent Data Encryption, enhancing data security and regulatory compliance standards.

  • Azure Virtual Desktop automation enabling the customer to migrate from a legacy Citrix based VDI to modern Azure VDI using Azure Devops, Terraform, Packer & Ansible.

  • Head contact regarding HashiCorp Vault for technical questions, pre-sales support, preparation of demo environments and technical enablement for colleagues and customers.

Open Source Work

I love working with Open Source Tools, as well as giving back to the FOSS community, through Pull Requests or Issue reporting. You can find all of my work on my Github Profile or checkout my Github Resume.

In addition, I have published some more or less useful projects on GitHub:

  • vkv img - vkv enables you to list, compare, import, document, backup & encrypt secrets from a HashiCorp Vault KV engine

  • hashicorp-vault-playground img - Bootstrap a local Vault HA Cluster with many useful learning labs in under a minute using only terraform, docker & minikube! hashicorp-vault-playground

  • golang-cli-template img - A general purpose golang CLI template for Github and Gitlab

I am also one of the maintainer for the following GitHub projects:

Certifications

I have obtained the following certifications, proving my knowledge in said technologies:

Contact Details

If you would like to get in touch with me, you can reach out to me via:

Looking forward to hear from you :)