About

About

Hi, I’m Zoyia Melton 👋

From Linux Infrastructure to Cloud, DevOps & MLOps 🚀

I’m a senior Linux and infrastructure engineer transitioning into Cloud, DevOps, and Platform engineering through hands-on projects, certifications, and production-style systems. After years of building and operating enterprise platforms, I’m now focused on designing, automating, and scaling modern cloud and data systems.

This site is my technical portfolio — a place where I document real systems I build, not just coursework.

🛠 Why Cloud, DevOps/MLOps & Platform Engineering?

My career has always centered on keeping critical systems reliable, secure, and scalable. That same mindset now drives how I approach cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, data infrastructure, and machine learning workflows.

Instead of only maintaining servers, I now build:

  • Cloud infrastructure with Terraform
  • Automated delivery pipelines with GitHub Actions
  • Data platforms with BigQuery, Spark, and Mage
  • MLOps and AI workflows that run on Linux-based cloud systems

My goal is to combine deep infrastructure experience with modern cloud and data tooling to create production-grade platforms.

🧰 My Technical Toolkit

I work across the full stack of modern engineering platforms:

  • Linux & Automation: RHEL, Ubuntu, Bash, Python
  • Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Docker Compose, Kubernetes
  • Cloud & IaC: GCP, AWS, Terraform
  • Data & MLOps: BigQuery, Spark, Mage, dbt, ML pipelines
  • CI/CD & DevOps: GitHub Actions, automation, monitoring

🧪 What I’m Building

This blog documents my journey through structured training like the DataTalksClub Data Engineering Zoomcamp along with independent projects that reflect real-world engineering work, including:

  • Cloud-hosted data pipelines
  • Infrastructure-as-code deployments
  • CI/CD workflows
  • Scalable data platforms
  • AI and MLOps experiments

Every post is designed to show how systems are built, deployed, and operated, not just how tools are installed.

📫 Let’s Connect

If you’re interested in cloud platforms, Linux-based systems, data engineering, DevOps, or MLOps, I’d love to connect.

  • GitHub: https://github.com/zoydtc
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoyiam

📫 Let’s Connect

If you’re interested in topics ranging from Linux internals and automation to building scalable data pipelines and platforms, feel free to connect.