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Ashley Graves

I build cloud infrastructure
that stays up.

Cloud engineer with a sysadmin with sysadmin experience — AWS networking, Terraform, and automation that has already eliminated 300+ hours of manual work a month in production healthcare environments.

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ashley@aws: ~/portfolio
$ cat profile.yaml
role: Cloud Engineer · Systems Administrator
location: Chicago, IL
cloud: [EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, VPN]
iac: [Terraform, CI/CD]
certs: [SAA, CloudOps, Sec+, Net+, A+, ITIL4]
$ terraform apply
Apply complete! Resources: 2 regions, 1 portfolio, 0 downtime.
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AWS Solutions Architect – AssociateAWS CloudOps Engineer – AssociateCompTIA Security+CompTIA Network+CompTIA A+ITIL 4 Foundation
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Servers administered
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Hours automated / month
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Identities managed
AWSTerraformVPC NetworkingIAMCloudWatchSite-to-Site VPNWindows ServerVMwareActive DirectoryPowerShellDNS / DHCP / VLANsCI/CD
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Projects

AWS VPCEC2 · subnetsCloudWatchIPsec VPNOn-prem (GNS3)VyOS firewallVLANs 10/20/30

Hybrid Cloud Network

aws + gns3 · site-to-site vpn

Connected an AWS VPC to a simulated on-premises network with a VyOS firewall, multi-subnet VLAN architecture, inter-VLAN routing, and enterprise-style ACLs mirrored on both sides.

AWSVPCVyOSVLANsCloudWatch
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GitHubTerraform CIus-east-1us-west-2

Multi-Region Portfolio Site

astro · terraform · ci/cd

This site — a static Astro build replicated across two US regions, provisioned entirely by Terraform through a CI/CD pipeline, with an SNS-backed contact form and git-driven blog publishing.

AstroTerraformS3SNSCI/CD
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HRISAutomationpipelineADTicketsShares

Zero-Touch Onboarding

hris → ticketing → active directory

End-to-end new-hire provisioning integration that cut access lead time from 3 days to under an hour and eliminated 300+ hours of monthly manual effort across IT and HR.

PowerShellREST APIsActive Directory
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Latest from the blog

June 27, 2026 · 2 min read

Deploying this site to two AWS regions with Terraform

The full architecture behind this portfolio: Astro static builds, S3 + CloudFront across us-east-1 and us-west-2, and the CI/CD pipeline that ships every git push.

read post → June 13, 2026 · 2 min read

Building a site-to-site VPN between GNS3 and AWS

How I bridged a simulated on-prem network to a real VPC with VyOS, and the routing mistakes I made along the way.

read post → May 29, 2026 · 2 min read

Automating 300 hours of onboarding work per month

Lessons from integrating an HRIS with a ticketing system to fully automate account provisioning in a hospital environment.

read post →
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