Khalifah Shabazz
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Redford Township, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolKhalifah Shabazz is a cloud-focused engineer and entrepreneur with over a decade of software experience and two years specializing in designing, deploying, and securing scalable AWS infrastructure. He combines hands-on IaC expertise with Terraform and CloudFormation, containerization using Docker/Kubernetes, and automation of CI/CD pipelines to migrate and modernize legacy systems. As founder and Technical Solutions Architect at Kohirens and a former senior engineer at Rocket Central, he has led microservice migrations, platform containerization, and developer workflow improvements while mentoring teams. His background spans backend engineering at Rocket Mortgage, where he built high-traffic APIs and observability stacks, giving him a practical appreciation for reliability and performance at scale. Known for thriving in collaborative environments yet able to run projects independently, he pairs operational discipline from retail operations with technical leadership. Based in Redford Township, MI, he brings a pragmatic, end-to-end mindset to building resilient systems and improving developer productivity.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Telecommunications Engineering, Bachelor's degree Telecommunications Engineering at Michigan State University
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Github Skills (138)
terraform10
infrastructure10
command-line-tool10
composer10
terraform-module10
alpine-linux10
webdriver10
terraform-cloud10
hashicorp10
devtools10
glibc10
cli10
dependency-manager10
cucumber10
graph10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kohirens/tmpl-go-web
Jun 2021 - Apr 2023
Contributions:5 releases, 6 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 year 10 months
kohirens/aws-tf-route53-record
May 2021 - Jan 2023
AWS Terraform modules to add records to Route 53.
Contributions:5 releases, 21 PRs, 24 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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