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👋 Talofa (That means "hello" in Samoan)​

I'm Ron Amosa, a Pasifika tech professional sharing insights on cloud computing, cybersecurity, and AI, with a focus on empowering underrepresented communities in tech.

This is my Digital Garden 🌱 where I write regularly, learn in public, and share my thought processes.

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📬 Newsletter: The Uncommon Engineer​

A newsletter written from the intersection of personal experience, professional career, technology impacts, and Pasifika communities.

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🌟 Featured Content​

My top performing, most searched for and accessed posts:

  1. "Proxmox: Create a cloud-init Template VM with Packer"
  2. "Proxmox: Cloud Init VM Setup With Ansible-Playbooks"
  3. "Proxmox: Mount a Virtual Machine's Logical Volume (LV) from Proxmox Host"
  4. "Mistral-7B using Ollama on AWS SageMaker"
  5. "Deploying LLM to SageMaker (manually)"

🔍 Current Focus Areas​

  • AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) - Check out the "AI" section for my latest explorations
  • The Pasifika Tech Education Charity - Empowering Pacific youth through technology education. Learn more

🏆 Certifications and Expertise​

AWS Certified Security SpecialtyAWS Certified Solutions Architect ProfessionalAWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

📚 Content Categories​

  • 📚 Books: My current reading list and book notes
  • 📗 Study: Exam notes and certification resources
  • 🏴‍☠️ Hacker: InfoSec, Red/Blue team security, and DevSecOps notes
  • 💻 Engineer: Software engineering and infrastructure architecture projects

🚀 Ongoing Projects​

  • Newsletter: "The Uncommon Engineer"
  • Charity: "The Pasifika Tech Education Charity"
  • AI/LLM Research and Implementation

📖 Current Reading​

  • "Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human" by Joy Buolamwini
  • "Right/Wrong: How Technology Transforms Our Ethics" by Juan Enriquez

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