About

Hello!👋

My name is Peter Choi and I am a Cloud DevOps Engineer located in Toronto, ON, Canada. 🍁

My professional career started in 2008 at BlackBerry, where I was hired after finishing my college studies. I spent over 5 years there managing physical servers, storage arrays, and networking, prior to the public cloud gaining mainstream traction. It’s where I developed Linux system administration skills and gained an appreciation for how things work under the hood. Some of these activities included racking and stacking blade chassis, deploying software packages using Cobbler, and coordinating with network teams to allocate and configure switch ports. I was part of a team that led the deployment of co-located data centers in Waterloo, a project that was one of the largest in the region at the time.

In the last 5 years, I have worked as a full-time consultant helping enterprise customers in the telco and public sector industries deliver business value through code and clouds. I have hands-on project experience helping teams adopt Azure, GCP, Terraform, Vault, Ansible, Containers, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines using current software development practices.

I started this Hugo blog to share my knowledge and practice my writing skills. Thanks for stopping by!