SYSTEM: Justin Boodhan

This project was a personal initiative to build and host my own portfolio website, justinboodhan.dev, from domain and DNS setup through to a fully automated production deployment.

It involved provisioning the complete AWS hosting infrastructure (Route 53, S3, CloudFront, and ACM) using Terraform, with a private, access-controlled origin secured through CloudFront Origin Access Control rather than public bucket hosting. I designed a CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions to automatically deploy content changes on every push, while keeping infrastructure changes as a deliberate, manually reviewed step, and configured a scoped IAM identity so the pipeline holds only the exact permissions it needs.

The result is a secure, cost-optimised, and fully reproducible production site, with the entire architecture (DNS, TLS, CDN, and deployment pipeline) defined and version-controlled as code.

This project was completed as part of my DevOps Engineering apprenticeship at Sky, where I took ownership of delivering the solution from initial proof of concept through to production.

It involved developing a custom Python automation tool to securely manage the ingestion of highly confidential data into a production MySQL database. I designed and implemented a CI/CD pipeline to automate testing and deployment, provisioned the supporting AWS infrastructure using Terraform, and automated configuration and deployment using Ansible.

AWS CloudWatch was also integrated to provide centralised logging, monitoring, and alerting, resulting in a secure, reliable, and maintainable production solution.