Gabriel Michel

About Me

I'm a Security and Platform Engineer at ReliaQuest with a focus on cloud infrastructure, advanced troubleshooting, and high-availability systems. As a Platform Engineer, I monitor uptime, build alerting and monitoring solutions, and ensure systems are reliable and scalable. I'm passionate about cloud technologies, space exploration, and building tools that solve real-world problems. I'm currently pursuing an AWS certification and enjoy exploring new advances in the aerospace industry. Outside of work, I enjoy creative digital design, working on side projects, and learning anything that pushes the boundaries of tech and innovation.

Projects

Project 1: You are looking at it 😉
Cloud Portfolio & AWS Monitoring Dashboard: This project showcases my personal portfolio while integrating real-time AWS resource monitoring using API Gateway, Lambda, and CloudWatch. Hosted on S3 with future enhancements for cost tracking, EC2 health, and infrastructure uptime, it demonstrates my skills in building scalable, serverless, and highly available cloud-native applications.

Project Summary
🌐 AWS Cloud Monitoring Dashboard

This project showcases a real-time cloud monitoring dashboard built using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and JavaScript on the frontend.

🔧 Backend (AWS)
- Uptime Monitoring: Checks if a website is online and returns status.
- Cloud Metrics Lambda:
  - ✅ CloudWatch Alarms: Lists currently triggered alarms.
  - 💸 AWS Cost: Fetches monthly AWS spend via Cost Explorer.
  - 🗂️ S3 Usage: Gets latest S3 bucket size in GB or bytes.
🌐 Frontend (HTML/JS)
- Fetches and displays: EC2 status, CPU usage (placeholders), AWS cost, S3 usage, and uptime.
- Built using vanilla JavaScript + RESTful endpoints from API Gateway.
☁️ Architecture Highlights
- Two separate Lambda functions for uptime and metrics.
- API Gateway routes with CORS support.
- Designed for and tested within AWS Free Tier.

Project 2:🚀 Space Launch Tracker - AWS Serverless
A serverless system that ingests real-time rocket launch data from a public API, caches it in DynamoDB via a scheduled Lambda, and exposes it through API Gateway for live dashboard display. Frontend uses CloudFront/S3 to show upcoming launches with countdowns, demonstrating cross-service AWS integration and real-time observability.

Project Summary

🚀 Space Launches

Work in progress..

About Me

Projects

🌐 AWS Cloud Monitoring Dashboard

🔧 Backend (AWS)

🌐 Frontend (HTML/JS)

☁️ Architecture Highlights

🚀 Space Launches

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