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Hi there,
I'm Sam Gabrail, MASc.
I'm a husband and father of two wonderful boys. I'm also very passionate 🔥 about all things technology. From when I was 10, I had a dream to become a computer 💻 engineer one day. Here I am today living the dream!
Thanks for visiting TeKanAid Academy. My goal is to teach you all things DevOps. Below are some of the things I've done over the years. I'm confident that I can help you achieve your dreams too.
- 15+ years of experience in various Information Technology fields from Telecommunications, Computer Networks, Digital Transformation, DevOps, Cybersecurity, and IoT
- President of TeKanAid Solutions Inc. building online content in the DevOps space
- Previously - Sr. Solutions Engineer at HashiCorp
- Pre-Sales Engineer at multiple US start-up vendors interacting with many enterprise customers
- Master of Applied Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering - University of Waterloo in Ontario Canada.
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Terraform: Authorized HashiCorp Instructor
HashiCorp Authorized Instructors are experienced DevOps professionals who deliver official HashiCorp training courses in person and virtually. Each partner (and instructor) goes through a certification process to verify their level of expertise and ability to deliver the most relevant and practical training to enterprise customers and open source practitioners.
Issued by HashiCorp Partner Network (HPN)
Authorized by HashiCorp
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (002)
Earners of the HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate certification know the basic concepts, skills, and use cases associated with open source HashiCorp Terraform. They understand and can utilize Terraform according to the certification objectives. Additionally, they understand why enterprises choose to extend Terraform Open Source with Terraform Enterprise to solve business critical objectives.
Issued by HashiCorp
HashiCorp Certified: Vault Associate (002)
Earners of the HashiCorp Certified: Vault Associate certification know the basic concepts, skills, and use cases associated with open source HashiCorp Vault. They understand and can utilize Vault according to the certification objectives. Additionally, they understand why enterprises choose to extend Vault Open Source with Vault Enterprise to solve business critical objectives.
Issued by HashiCorp
What others are saying
Excellent course (HashiCorp Vault 101 - Certified Vault Associate), recommend for anyone planning to use Vault in the future. Clear explanations from the author help to understand the concepts well. I had no experience with Vault, but with the help of this course, I was able to deploy Vault in a production environment. In addition to the course, you will also gain access to TeKanAid Community where you are able to comment and/or list questions that you have pertaining to Vault.
- Wilberto Maldonado | Security Engineer
This course (HashiCorp Vault 101 - Certified Vault Associate) gave me an excellent overview about all features that HashiCorp Vault offers. Topics are presented in digestible pace and all theoretical knowledge is demonstrated in practical hands on labs. I am looking forward to see other courses from TeKanAid as well. Thank you very much, you made my life easier.
- František Albert | Software Architect / DevOps Engineer
Hats off for your presentation skills. Advanced topics presented in this HashiCorp Vault + Kubernetes (HashiCorp Vault 201 - Vault for Apps in Kubernetes) course were understandable and easy to grasp. Chosen topics were exactly what I needed to be able to perform the production deployment of HashiCrop Vault inside Kubernetes. I extremely appreciate your personal interest after the course. It is clear that you care about your courses participants. Wishing best and feel free to contact me after you have new courses available. Thanks.
- František Albert | Software Architect / DevOps Engineer
Hello Sam, Thank you very much for your blogs and videos about Packer and Terraform. I recently jumped into Terraform, especially for use in vSphere and I am learning every day. So while I was struggling to prepare a good Ubuntu template, I stumbled on Packer. So again, thank you very much for all your good and hard work. I absolutely believe that fine-tuning those scripts takes a lot of time.
- Paul Grevink | DevOps Engineer Cloud at ING
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