Platform Engineer

Provision and operate a self-hosted Kubernetes platform hosting 70% of company workloads. Own cluster bootstrap, upgrades, networking, storage, and day-2 operations across on-premise and cloud environments.

Implemented GitOps delivery with ArgoCD and Helm, increasing deployment frequency by 80%. Automated infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible, implemented observability with Grafana Alloy and Loki, migrated critical workloads to resilient clusters, and achieved 99.9% uptime while reducing cloud spend by 50% and MTTR by 40%.

Designed and implemented GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines to automate application testing and deployment to AWS, reducing deployment time by 30%.

Managed AWS infrastructure with Terraform to improve provisioning consistency and deployment success rates. Improved application security by moving hardcoded secrets into a centralized secure secret store and integrated Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring, improving uptime and issue resolution.

Mentored Kamilimu mentees in DevOps and Platform Engineering fundamentals, including containers, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code.

Taught mentees how to design and build CI/CD pipelines from automated testing through deployment.

Built a foundation in data structures, algorithm efficiency, and problem solving. Participated in team-based software development projects that strengthened collaboration and communication skills.

Gained hands-on experience managing and configuring servers for performance and security. Learned backend development principles, RESTful APIs, database management, and server-side programming.