Ehigiator Akhile
Edo State,Nigeria
Summary
DevOps Engineer with over 5 years of professional experience in developing an automated process for builds and deployments by using CI/CD tools, IaC tools, container orchestration, and monitoring tools. Excel in collaboration, problem-solving, and adaptability, ensuring seamless development and operations integration.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Founder
Hospify
, Nigeria
01.2025 - Current
- Designed and implemented a FastAPI backend for the Hospify API, ensuring a scalable and efficient architecture for healthcare provider data management.
- Implemented Role-Based Access Control (RBAC).
- Integrated AWS S3 storage for HCP logos and user profile images, optimizing media handling.
- Implemented JWT authentication for secure user login and access control.
- Built password reset and email verification functionality, enhancing account security and user experience.
- Deployed a FastAPI backend using Docker, AWS Elastic Beanstalk (EB), and ECR, ensuring scalability and reliability.
- Configured AWS Route 53 for a custom domain with SSL/TLS via ACM and Load Balancer for secure API access.
- Implemented GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline to automate the build and deployment of the API.
- Configured AWS IAM roles and service profiles for secure and seamless Elastic Beanstalk deployment.
DevOps Engineer
Standard Life Organization
, Nigeria
07.2024 - Current
- Managing Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) using Jenkins, GitHub Actions.
- Hands-on experience installing and administering CI tools like Jenkins and GIT.
- Involved in work from building code to deploying the application on the server. Analyze and resolve conflicts related to the merging of source code for GIT.
- Created Docker images, Docker containers, and pushed them to the Docker repository, and removed unused containers.
- Created Docker images using Dockerfiles to support the containerization of applications.
- Designed the Kubernetes architecture with load balancing.
- Designed the Jenkins pipeline for the CI/CD, writing the YAML files for Ingress, Services, and Deployments, and monitoring using AWS CloudWatch metrics.
- Designed and deployed AWS EKS infrastructure using Terraform, ensuring scalable and maintainable infrastructure.
- Successfully optimized the deployment of three React applications by migrating them from Amazon EKS to AWS Amplify, resulting in a 60% reduction in infrastructure and cloud costs.
- Set up and managed a Jenkins server to automate the deployment pipeline, facilitating continuous integration, and continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes.
- Streamlined the deployment of EKS clusters through Jenkins pipelines, automating the process for greater efficiency and consistency. Worked closely with the frontend team to develop Docker scripts and Kubernetes manifest files for the deployment of frontend applications, while also collaborating with the backend team to deploy backend API applications on Kubernetes.
- Integrated Amazon RDS as the database solution for the EKS cluster, ensuring enhanced database reliability, scalability, and performance.
- Deployed and configured an Ingress controller to manage traffic routing within the EKS cluster, enabling smooth traffic flow to designated services.
- Implemented Cert Manager and Cluster Issuer for securing the EKS clusters, ensuring robust SSL/TLS certificate management.
- Optimized the EKS clusters for both vertical and horizontal scaling to handle varying workloads effectively. Developed Jenkins pipelines for deploying Docker images to Amazon ECR, ensuring proper versioning and tagging practices for better management and traceability of Docker images.
- Collaborated with the IT Manager to secure $300 in AWS credits, contributing to cost management and optimization of AWS infrastructure usage. • Conducted refactoring of the infrastructure code to improve maintainability, scalability, and performance.
- Actively participated in continuous testing, and collaborated with the QA team to promptly address any bugs, ensuring high application stability and a seamless user experience.
Cloud Application Developer
Vanus LTD
, China
01.2022 - Current
- Developed a Cloud Native Application called Google Spreadsheet Sink Connector using Golang to facilitate seamless data integration and enhance operational efficiency
- Collaborated closely with the Product Team to synthesize user feedback and insights, driving iterative improvements and enhancing product performance
- Led a team of two software developers in the design and development of cloud-native applications and technical documentation for Vanus Products
Associate Principal Engineer
Consultancy
, USA
09.2024 - 01.2025
- Collaborated with a Principal Engineer to develop engineering standards documentation for an international organization, defining best practices for software development, security, and compliance.
- Designed and implemented Python scripts to automate the tracking and reporting of key DevOps, CI/CD, and security metrics, improving visibility into engineering performance and software quality.
- Developed automated monitoring for software build and deployment processes, tracking: Build Performance: Build Success Rate, Build Duration, Build Failure Rate, Security & Compliance: Number of Vulnerabilities (SAST), False Positive Rate (SAST/DAST), Number of Secrets Detected, Time to Remediate Vulnerabilities, Security Scan Coverage, Deployment & Release Metrics (DORA): Deployment Frequency, Lead Time for Changes, Change Failure Rate, Deployment Success Rate, Software Quality & Testing: Automated Test Coverage, Test Coverage Percentage, Time Spent at Quality Gates, Gate Pass/Fail Rate, Code Quality & Engineering Efficiency: Pull Request Merge Time, Code Churn Rate.
- Automated Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) generation to enhance software supply chain security and compliance.
- Improved engineering standards by integrating performance tracking into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring compliance with industry best practices, and regulatory requirements.
- Provided data-driven insights to engineering leadership, helping to optimize development processes, and enhance software delivery speed.
AWS Technical Instructor & DevOps Mentor
Edo Innovates
, Nigeria
05.2021 - 07.2024
- Working with the source code management tool GitHub
- Build and deploy automation using Jenkins
- Terraform scripts to create clusters, networks, load balancers
- Terraform scripts for upgrading the infrastructure
- Administration of Kubernetes clusters
- Creation of the docker images for multiple projects/microservices
- Deploying the application in the Kubernetes applications
- Writing the deployment, ingress, cronjobs, stateful set yaml files for the applications
- Identifying the application logs and troubleshooting the issues
- Created the packages for Kubernetes deployments using Helm charts
- Prometheus and Grafana set up using the Helm charts
- Working with AWS cloud infrastructure
- Integration of Alert manager to notify the team in case of any failures with the application
- Developed a Golang AI tutor which is integrated into our online community to answer Golang-related questions asked by my students efficiently
- Mentored a diverse cohort of over 300 students in AWS cloud technologies and DevOps practices over the past 3 years
- Curated a comprehensive curriculum and training materials to ensure students gain practical, hands-on experience in AWS services, infrastructure as code, and DevOps tools
- Achieved outstanding results with over 70% of students excelling in the AWS Cloud Practitioner exams
Education
B.ENG - PETROLEUM ENGINEERING
UNIVERSITY OF BENIN
BENIN CITY, EDO STATESkills
- Linux
- AWS
- Python
- Bash
- FastAPI
- Terraform
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Helm chart
- Jenkins
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab CI
- CircleCI
- Ansible
- Jira
- Confluence
- SonarQube
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- CloudWatch
- Datadog
- MySQL
Certification
- AWS Cloud Practitioner
- Cloud DevOps Engineer (Udacity)
- Project Management Essentials (MSI)
Relevant Project Experience
Standard Life Organization - DevOps Engineer
Linux, GIT, GitHub, Maven, SonarQube, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Scripting, AWS
Consultancy, USA - Associate Principal Engineer
Hospify - Backend Developer, DevOps/Build, Configuration and Release Engineer
FastAPI, GitHub Actions, Python, Docker Amazon Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon ECR
Edo Innovates - AWS Technical Instructor & DevOps Mentor
Linux, GitHub, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, Jenkins, Python,
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Founder
Hospify
01.2025 - Current
Associate Principal Engineer
Consultancy
09.2024 - 01.2025
DevOps Engineer
Standard Life Organization
07.2024 - Current
Cloud Application Developer
Vanus LTD
01.2022 - Current
AWS Technical Instructor & DevOps Mentor
Edo Innovates
05.2021 - 07.2024
B.ENG - PETROLEUM ENGINEERING
UNIVERSITY OF BENIN
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