About Antonio Feijao UK

Antonio Feijao UK

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My background story

Lisbon Portugal

Hi, my name is Antonio Feijao, born in Portugal and currently living in London, UK.

In highschool I followed the technologies path where I learned the fundamentals of Computer Science and Programing.

Then, I the pursued a 5 years University degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering.

I did learn a lot but was very difficult for me after second year. I only had a minor background in Electronics.

Never give up!

So, to improve my electronics skills, while studying at the University, I also enrolled in a 3 years part-time night course in “Telecommunications and Networking Specialization”.

The private school was called “Forino”, but since then, it changed the name to CINEL.

It was here that I found my passion for Networking. I was a student at Cisco Network Academy for 1.5 years Cisco NetAcad.

After successfully pass my CCNA Routing and Switching Cisco Exam, I got a job offer at Unisys as a Security Consultant and Penetration tester.

I was trained in many areas os security!

Here, I found another passion, Security! I learn best practices, tweaking and hardening configurations configurations, Windows, Linux and Networking.

I learned so much here! I actually like to learn new things every day.

As a Security Consultant, I worked with the largest organizations in Portugal in Finance, Banking.

Luanda Angola

After 1 year experience as a Security Consultant, I was assigned to a 3 years project in Africa, Angola, City of Luanda, at the Minister of Defence.

Hand-on work, assembling racks and data centre equipment, and yes it had servers, cables, networking devices. This took about 1 months.

My responsibility included:

Year 1

Networking configurations following the best security practices
Monitoring and Alerting Applications
Connecting the various cities in Angola back to the Data-Centre in Luanda. (Some cities were connected through satellite trucks, it was great experience tweaking packets sizes, window-size and MTUs for latency improvements)
Networking for standalone trucks connected through satellite
Collaborating with other teams, mostly Develops, Microsoft Administrators and the Project Managers

Year 2

Training the various local teams that would look after the Network Infrastructure
Continuous improvements
Collaborating with other teams

Year 3

Continuous improvements
Firmware upgrades
Training the local Engineers

I meet amazing people during my stay in Angola.

London United Kingdom

After this project, I went back to Portugal. I learned so much in the past 5 years, but I wanted more.

Most of the technical documentation was in English. In some occasions, I had to engage with the Cisco support. I had the feeling that sometimes I was struggling with the English language.

(…)

Fast forwarding, that is why I moved to England, to work, live and improve the english language.

Living in London, United Kingdom, working as Solutions Architect for AWS.

I am a Solutions Architect at AWS, and on my daily job, I help customer with:

with moving their workloads into AWS
review complex Architecture and migrations project and , –>work with various customer and help them with any type of architectures and the best practices in cloud.

I am am passionate with tech in generally and is a pleasure to me when I help others unfolding complex architectures.

I built this page to practice and get experience.

!!! quote

The only source of knowledge is experience.

by Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein famous quote

What else I do

My passions also include #travel, #spacetravel, #cultures, #outdoors, #coding, #mathematics, #electronics, #physics, #philosophy …

What Solutions Architect do

_ https://www.amazon.jobs/en-gb/job_categories/solutions-architect

https://youtu.be/IBqqYWr4t94 - “What’s It Like to Be a Solution Architect at AWS? Hear from Our Very Own.”

_ https://www.amazon.jobs/en-gb/working/working-amazon

_ https://www.simplilearn.com/what-a-day-in-the-life-of-an-aws-solutions-architect-look-like-article

Good explanation on the site above, with except on the following sentence: ~~"Some AWS Solutions Architects are focused more on products and not on the customers."~~

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