Hallå, I'm Erik!

A swede living in California.

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My name is Erik Blomquist, I am a recent IT graduate from CSUN and a certified AWS Cloud Practitioner. Born and raised in Sweden but currently living in Los Angeles (since 2011) with my wife and four cats . I am passionate about Amazon Web Services and have 2 years of experience in securing, deploying, monitoring and migrating applications to a modern economic friendly and scalable solution in the cloud. I am currently working to obtain the AWS Solutions Architect - Associate certificate while learning more about the latest and greatest DevOps tools.



Education

education

Projects



CSUN PNS

Senior project at CSUN where we used Docker containers, AWS Elastic Container Registry (ECR) and Elastic Container Service (ECS) to build a cloud infrastructure (prod and test environments) for a permission number system app developed by the Computer Science department of CSUN. Responsible for creating machine images with packer and auto scaling with different monitoring solutions such as CloudWatch, and Prometheus/Grafana.

https://gitlab.com/csun-pns/csun-pns-infrastructure

DiscordJS CRUD Operations

A discord bot that allows for CRUD operations on a MongoDB database.
https://glitch.com/edit/#!/lou-dicord-bot2

Serverless Authentication

Created a simple website that allows users to register and login.
http://react-journal-prod.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/#/

ECS Fargate containers

Containerized a simple NodeJS app and deployed it to ECS Fargate containers with ECR, ECS, and Terraform.
https://github.com/ErikBlomquist/ecs_fargate_terraform

Lambda functions

Project where I explored the power of lambda functions to start, stop, and backup instances on a schedule etc.
https://github.com/ErikBlomquist/aws_lambdas

AntebellumRichmond

I setup a blog from an outdated hugo theme to make it easier for my client to manage their research publications. Hosted on Netlify instead of an expensive hosting provider. https://antebellumrichmond.netlify.com/

Personal Blog

Personal blog created using Hugo.io and Terraform. Hosted on a S3 bucket using CloudFront. Travis CI used to automate the deployment from GitHub to S3.
https://www.korken.xyz/

SupporterGodis

I migrated the website to a S3 bucket using CloudFront for distribution on AWS instead of using expensive hosting companies. I also created a new website using HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript and a simple contact form. https://supportergodisnu.glitch.me/ | https://www.supportergodis.nu/

Simple React

Small React project. Outcome from learning React from @TraversyMedia
https://blomquist-react-todo.netlify.com/

Discord Bots

Repository for the handful amount of bots I have developed for Discord.
https://github.com/ErikBlomquist/korkbots

ChatOps bot for Slack

A Simple ChatOps BOT made for Slack to control AWS resources using boto3 framework.
https://github.com/ErikBlomquist/CIT-481-BOT

Tools I have worked with

AWS VPC S3 EC2
IAM CloudFront Route 53 CloudWatch
ECS / ECR Lambda Terraform Ansible
Linux
Ubuntu
Windows		 Python
C++
Java		 HTML5
CSS3 SASS
Bootstrap		 Vanilla JavaScript
NodeJS
DiscordJS
Jira Docker / Vagrant Packer GitHub
GitLab
PHP
Laravel 		Prometheus & Grafana DataDog MySQL / DynamoDB
Netlify GraphQL + Apollo React Hugo.io
Slack Discord Circle CI
Travis CI		 Google Analytics


Contact

Email

erik@blomquist.dev

Blog

https://www.korken.xyz

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