🚀 GED → Cloud Architect CompTIA Cloud+ Exam SME (1 of 18 globally) Founder, BCloud Engineers Cigars | Proud Black American 💪🏿🇺🇸

Atlanta, GA
Joined December 2017
Replying to @PremesLife
My first cloud engineer role offered me a base salary of $55k. A year and a half later I got my second cloud engineer role making $115k, now I work for the feds making more. If you lack vision, you’ll lack actions towards life changing goals.
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I thought it was strange young brothers in Atlanta don’t bother with young women in the club, then i stumbled upon this video of women in this club and discovered all of these sisters hate black men 😩 I then changed my stance…. These brothers are avoiding engaging with the drama and finding peace among themselves. See for yourself instagram.com/reel/Dd1vrpmJj…
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"Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done." — Hyman G. Rickover Who They Were & What They Did: Rickover was an admiral who built the U.S. nuclear Navy almost single-handedly over three decades. He pushed through the world's first nuclear-powered submarine, USS Nautilus, which went to sea in 1954. He also helped build the first full-scale civilian nuclear power plant in the U.S., at Shippingport. The line comes from his speech "Doing a Job," which he gave at Columbia University in the early 1980s.
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Sometimes all you need as a fatherless young boy, is to know that another man cares because that anger will make you want to go against the whole world…. Especially over a girl 😮‍💨. Great work Adam 💪🏿
😭😭😭😭A young man's first heartbreak. I've experienced it as a mother and as a young lady I remember being the cause of one. (It wasnt because I cheated tho). They are all recoverable of course but it helps if someone is around and can help navigate that influx of despair. Shout out to this Memphis man! Don't go calling his phone either. #Heartbreak.
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All Very true. But the enemy is cunning like that. Anything to persuade you from using your power. It was crack, rap music, now it’s social media algorithms. Now Vote. They spend billions to discourage you from literacy and voting. Vote Blue as our strategy (watch for the bots 😎)
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Legacy systems quietly drain your budget every month. Idle servers, unpatched risk, bloated licensing. Decommission them and watch your cloud spend drop. Same math applies to your life. Old habits and people who no longer serve your growth are running costs too. Retire them on purpose. Make room for the higher version of you.
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"Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience." — Hyman G. Rickover Who He Was & What He Did: Rickover was the U.S. Navy admiral who created the nuclear navy. Many in the Navy doubted it could be done, but he pushed reactor design, engineering standards and crew training through anyway. The USS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine, went to sea in 1954. He then led naval nuclear propulsion for about three decades, and the Navy's reactor safety record under his program is still the benchmark.
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cloudtechbigunk retweeted
notice.. > Delta is blocking AI agents from booking flights > JPMorgan Chase and Charles Schwab block agents from accessing accounts > Yelp requires paid data licensing for agents > Amazon has blocked Grok bot and other shopping agents. the internet is starting to block AI agents that were supposed to do everything for us
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A failover plan you have never tested is a hope, not a plan. Cloud or on prem, drill it until recovery time is proven. Relationships work the same way. Stress test your circle before the crisis hits. See who shows up under pressure. Know where you truly stand. Test the people you depend on. Test yourself too. Cloud say big on. bcloudengineers.live
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Getting my PhD before 30 taught me that you need one thing to win and random advicebros never talk about it. They talk about self-discipline and networking but none of that shit is news, it’s table stakes. You have to be more creative than everyone else. Like top .01% creative. You only develop that through hobbies. For me it’s always been photography and modular synthesis. When it came time to navigate engineering leadership in my career I just applied my creativity and it helped me outpace a bunch of other people.
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cloudtechbigunk retweeted
Stop sharing your info and resume with “recruiters” without verifying who they are. Foreign nations and fraudsters are using ppl’s info to get jobs.
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In case yall are curious of how my stripper student in doing in her journey of preparing for her Net + certification 😎💻 bcloudengineers.live
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At a federal agency on GovCloud, opening a firewall port took 30 seconds. Getting it approved took a week. A 30-minute form. A week waiting for the change call. Then signatures. Five changes a day is 2.5 hours of typing about work instead of doing it. Nobody's safer. Everybody's slower.
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The Terraform plan already describes the change. Let the pipeline write the package so engineers stop retyping and compliance gets one complete format. I built it. That 30-minute form now comes back as a draft in under a minute, still waiting on a human signature.
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My name is etched in history. One of 18 cloud SMEs selected globally to build the CompTIA Cloud+ exam. All-NBA level. Only one in the room with a GED. I put on for Atlanta, the 704, and the Chambers name. You rose by yourself, but you didn't do it for yourself. bcloudengineers.live
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CloudWatch and Azure Monitor give you visibility into your infrastructure. Same principle in life. Be observant of people around you. Notice patterns. Recognize who genuinely supports your goals. Identify obstacles early. What you don't see will hurt you. What you monitor you control. Cloud say big on. CMP bcloudengineers.live
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cloudtechbigunk retweeted
This app is full of ROBOTS who were MADE to MAKE YOU MAD. They are algorithmically contrarian! They do not make sense because they are not real people.
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cloudtechbigunk retweeted
IT support taught me IAM, MDM & SaaS admin. That foundation got me into cloud engineering. Don't skip the help desk. It's literally the blueprint.
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Chicago is heavy on the date night vibes
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"In the fields of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind." — Louis Pasteur Who They Were & What They Did: Pasteur was a French chemist and microbiologist who showed that microbes cause disease and fermentation. That work overturned the old belief that life could arise on its own from non-living matter.
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