Professional Experience

Building production-grade cloud platforms with Terraform, Kubernetes, and SRE practices

My professional journey as a Cloud & DevOps Engineer spans humanitarian projects, fintech platforms, AI startups, and enterprise organizations. I specialize in designing resilient cloud infrastructure, implementing comprehensive observability, and automating deployment pipelines that enable teams to deliver at scale while maintaining security and compliance.

Help.NGO (Humanitarian OpenStreetMap / TAK Project)

Cloud Advisor · December 2023 – Present · Part-time advisory

Cloud Advisor providing secure, compliant, and resilient AWS environments supporting humanitarian mapping operations in high-risk regions.

Advised on secure AWS environments for humanitarian operations, ensuring data protection and operational continuity in sensitive contexts.

Guided teams on Terraform-driven IaC standardisation and GitHub Actions automation for consistent, repeatable deployments.

Strengthened observability and data-protection frameworks aligned with GDPR and humanitarian standards.

Supported documentation and risk analysis for cloud deployments in high-stakes operational environments.

Technologies:

AWS Terraform GitHub Actions Observability GDPR Humanitarian Tech

Sovereign Technology & Innovation Limited

Cloud & DevOps Engineer (Full-time) · August 2024 – July 2025 · Remote

Architected and operated a production-grade financial services platform built on AWS and designed for resilience and automation.

Designed multi-node EKS clusters with secure networking, autoscaling, and Istio-based service mesh to sustain 99.95 percent uptime.

Built Terraform modules and GitHub Actions pipelines that enabled consistent, repeatable deployments across blue/green environments.

Implemented Checkov, OPA, and AWS Config for policy-as-code validation and continuous compliance, supporting PCI-DSS requirements.

Delivered FinOps dashboards and cost analysis tooling using Lambda and Cost Explorer APIs, reducing operational expenditure by 30 percent.

Integrated SRE practices including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and golden-signal monitoring to improve incident response.

Technologies:

AWS EKS Terraform Istio Prometheus Grafana GitHub Actions PCI-DSS DevSecOps FinOps

Afren (afren.ai)

DevOps Engineer (Full-Time, Remote) · December 2022 – July 2024

Strengthened platform reliability and automated cloud operations across AWS, supporting distributed services used internally.

Automated builds, deployments, and environment provisioning using CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code, reducing manual effort by 60 percent.

Rebuilt infrastructure into modular Terraform platform components, eliminating configuration drift and enabling consistent environment creation.

Delivered CloudWatch dashboards, golden-signal metrics, and centralised log pipelines, improving service visibility and operational reliability by 45 percent.

Enhanced alerting, incident response, and troubleshooting workflows, cutting MTTR by 40 percent and standardising recovery playbooks.

Operated and hardened Linux-based production environments, resolving OS-level, networking, and resource utilisation issues across EC2 instances.

Technologies:

AWS Terraform GitHub Actions CloudWatch Prometheus Grafana Docker DevSecOps SRE

AI Governance

Independent Cloud Architect

Contract Engagements · May 2021 – Present · Global

Delivered cloud architecture and automation across fintech, healthtech, and enterprise projects, combining automation, reliability, and governance at scale.

Designed multi-cloud, highly available workloads using load balancing, autoscaling, and replication strategies achieving 99.9 percent uptime.

Built internal Terraform and ArgoCD frameworks that reduced provisioning time by 60 percent and enabled self-service infrastructure.

Implemented FinOps optimization workflows saving clients £3,000–£5,000 per month through right-sizing and Savings Plans.

Delivered compliance-as-code (PCI-DSS, GDPR) pipelines ensuring audit-ready deployments and regulatory alignment.

Created reusable Terraform/Helm modules powering multi-region Kubernetes and serverless environments with standardized security.

Technologies:

AWS GCP EKS GKE Terraform ArgoCD Prometheus Grafana Checkov Snyk FinOps DevSecOps

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