📍 London, United Kingdom |
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Hi, I'm Kwabena, a results-driven DevOps Engineer with 3+ years of experience automating, optimizing, and scaling cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines across AWS, Azure, and GCP. I specialize in Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and GitHub Actions, building resilient systems, improving developer workflows, and implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for faster, secure, and cost-optimized deployments.
Calgary, Canada | March 2023 – Present
- Automated CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, reducing manual deployment errors by 90% and achieving 50% faster releases.
- Containerized 20+ microservices with Docker, orchestrated via Amazon EKS, reducing rollout downtime by 40%.
- Implemented IaC with Terraform for AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Elastic Beanstalk), cutting provisioning time by 70%.
- Configured monitoring with CloudWatch and CloudTrail, reducing mean time to detection (MTTD) by 35%.
Accra, Ghana | February 2022 – February 2023
- Managed and optimized Azure infrastructure, ensuring high availability and reliability.
- Built CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps, Git, and Octopus Deploy, automating deployments.
- Automated provisioning with Terraform, ARM Templates, Azure CLI, and PowerShell.
- Maintained Linux and Windows VMs, handling patching, security hardening, and performance tuning.
Technologies: Terraform, AWS (VPC, EC2, Security Groups), GitHub Actions
- Built reusable Terraform modules and automated multi-environment AWS deployments via CI/CD.
Technologies: Node.js, Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Checkov, Trivy, SonarCloud, OWASP ZAP
- Designed a Docker-based Node.js CI/CD pipeline with Terraform IaC and integrated DevSecOps tools.
- MBA, University of South Wales — 2018–2020
- BSc. Development Planning, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology — 2009–2013