Wengelawit Chakla
About Wengelawit Chakla
Wengelawit Chakla is a Cloud/DevOps Engineer at Alight Solutions in Dallas, Texas, with extensive experience in cloud migration, CI/CD pipeline establishment, and infrastructure optimization.
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Wengelawit Chakla serves as a Cloud/DevOps Engineer at Alight Solutions in Dallas, Texas, United States.
Company Experience
Currently working at Alight Solutions, Wengelawit Chakla previously accumulated experience as a Cloud Engineer at Remedy Care Solution LLC from 2018 to 2019 in Tampa, Florida.
Education and Expertise
Wengelawit Chakla received a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Gondar, completing the program from 2012 to 2016. Later, she enhanced her expertise by obtaining an AWS Solutions Architect Associate Certification from Bemanda Technology Inc in 2022.
Project Leadership and Management
At Alight Solutions, Wengelawit directed a team of 8 in migrating 28 applications and databases for the company's largest clients from on-premises to AWS Cloud. The project was delivered on time and completed 25% under budget. She also established CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, improving software delivery speed by 40% and reducing manual errors by 50%.
Technical Implementations
Wengelawit implemented several key enhancements including optimizing volumes and EC2 instances, and creating VPC instances which increased overall speed by 35%. She designed and implemented monitoring, tracking, and logging solutions with Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, and Jira, significantly increasing production visibility and reducing critical issue response time.
Containerization and Automation
Wengelawit introduced containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes, leading to a 40% reduction in infrastructure costs and a 50% increase in application performance. She deployed and automated EC2 instances as code environments using Terraform and Ansible, and maintained a network of 25+ Linux servers at 99.9% uptime.
Development and Build Tools
Wengelawit worked on setting up Docker to automate container deployment through Jenkins and created Docker images for different environments. She also utilized Maven as a build tool on Java projects for the development of build artifacts and managed GitHub repositories including branching and tagging.