Aleksandër Pulla's Portfolio

About

Aleksandër Pulla recently got certified by Amazon for AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CCP), as well as continues the cloud journey to learn the competences and skills of AWS Solutions Architect.

He is currently working as a full-time Solutions Engineer at CData Software after transitioning from Technical Engineer in the same company as a result of a promotion.
Before that, he has been working as a full-time lecturer at the European University of Tirana, Faculty of Engineering, Informatics & Technology

In 2020 he graduated in Master of Science in Computer Science with specialization in Software Engineering, Mälardalen University, Sweden. One year ago he also graduated in Master Of Science in Business Informatics, European University of Tirana, Albania.
In 2015-2018 he finished his Bachelor in Finance & Accounting, University of Tirana, Albania.

Skills

Cloud DevOps Engineering, including AWS Computing services (EC2, Lambda, Fargate), AWS Storage services (S3, EFS, EBS, etc.), AWS Databases & Analytics services (RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, DocumentDB, EMR, ElastiCache, Athena, Redshift, etc.) and much more. In addition, these skills are consolidated with other technologies, such as Containerization (Docker, Swarm & Kubernetes), Linux, Agile, Collaboration & Versioning (JIRA, Azure DevOps, Git, GitHub)

Full-stack development, specifically designing front-end (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) as well as MERN stack for back-end development (MongoDB as NoSQL database; Express, for endpoint routing; ReactJS and its ecosystem, NodeJS as the back-end JS runtime environment)

R programming language and its data analysis libraries (i.e. tidyverse, dplyr, readr, tidyr, ggplot2, etc) for data preparation, data processing, data analysis, data visualization and documentation through R Markdown.

SQL/NoSQL/DataWarehousing/BigData, for working with large datasets and organizing them into database (CRUD operations, JOINS, subqueries, reports, views, etc) for cleaning data, analyzing and integrating queries with Tableau (BI tool) for visualization.

Tableau for creating static (different types of charts, such as bars, lines, scatters, pies, maps, heatmaps & treemaps, etc.) and dynamic (dashboards) visuals, turning analyzed data into useful insights, achieving data storytelling and data-driven decision making.

Academic skills (teaching courses such as "Database Design & Management in SQL", "Strategic Management of Information Systems", "Web Design", "Software Engineering", "Process Design & Automation via BPMN standard")