Henry Ezugwu
Houston,TX
Summary
DevOps Engineer specializing in solving complex challenges and designing scalable, cloud-native solutions that enhance efficiency and innovation in large-scale systems. Expertise includes Kubernetes, Terraform, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to enable teams to deliver reliable, high-performing products with speed and consistency. Focused on bridging the gap between development and operations by fostering automation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
DevOps Engineer
World Tradings
02.2020 - 07.2024
- Setup repos on Azure Git, merging code from develop branch to master branch and make it ready for deployment.
- Migrated legacy applications to Microsoft Azure Cloud PaaS by setting up CI/CD pipelines on AzureDevOps.
- Created WebApps (PaaS solutions) on Azure portal for deploying web applications using Azure DevOps pipelines.
- Setup AKS clusters in Azure using Azure CLI.
- Created nightly builds with integration to code quality tools such as SonarQube, Veracode.
- Helped teams to reduce defects rate by 30% by introducing TDD in first 3 months.
- Created quality gates in Sonar Qube dashboard and enforced in the pipelines to fail the builds when conditions were not met.
- Set up the SonarLint plug-ins in developer's workstation for detecting defects early during development.
- Built and deployed Docker containers to break up monolithic app into micro services, improving developer workflow, increasing scalability, and optimizing speed.
- Implemented Release management workflow for QA, UAT and Prod environments.
- Prepared and presented SCM best practices for implementing continuous integration for the team.
DevOps Engineer
Santa Monica Studios
03.2016 - 04.2020
- Set up CI/CD pipelines for Microservices and integrated tools such as Maven, Bitbucket, Sonar Qube, Nexus, Docker, Slack for providing immediate feedback to DEV teams after code check-in.
- Provisioned Dynamic Jenkins Docker slaves using DockerHost for CICD Pipelines.
- Wrote Ansible playbooks from scratch in YAML. Installing, setting up & Troubleshooting Ansible, created and automated platform environment setup.
- Set up Git repositories and SSH Keys in GitHub for Agile teams.
- Integrated GitHub web hooks into Jenkins to automate the code check-out process.
- Implemented the setup for master slave architecture to improve the performance of Jenkins.
- Imported existing infrastructure into Terraform using Terraform Import command Created Dockerfile and automated docker image creation using Jenkins and Docker.
- Automated infrastructure provisioning on AWS using Terraform and Ansible.
- Created nightly builds with integration to code quality tools such as SonarQube, Veracode.
- Created quality gates in SonarQube dashboard and enforced in the pipelines to fail the builds when conditions not met.
- Rebuild of entire existing platform over to Docker containers.
- Setup Kubernetes clusters using Amazon EKS.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Business Management
Ballarat University
Australia 10-2013
Skills
Experience in migrating applications to both AWS and Azure cloud platforms
Extensive experience in setting up CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, Maven, Docker, Nexus, Artifactory, Slack and Azure pipelines
Strong experience in automating infrastrusture setup on AWS cloud and Azure Cloud using Terraform
Extensive experience in distributed Agile and Serum methodologies to develop best practices for software development and implementation
Strong experience in working with version control systems such as Git, GitHub, Bitbucket, Azure Repos
Experience working with developing scripts and automation tools used for building, integrating and deploying software releases to multiple environments
Strong hands on experience in scripting languages such as Groovy, JSON, YAML, Shell
scripting
Strong experience in code quality and code coverage tools such as Sonar Qube, JaCoCo and JUnit
Good knowledge of virtualization and container technology like Docker Experience in creating Dockerfiles and working with Docker containers
Have good knowledge in Kubernetes and have setup clusters in Amazon EKS, Azure AKS
Strong exposure in Ansible for managing software installations, patch management to servers
Strong knowledge on practicing TDD, automating Junit tests using Maven in Jenkins
Strong knowledge in Tomcat, WebLogic servers on different Operating Systems like Windows,
UNIX and Solaris platforms
Participated in the release cycle of the product which involved environments like
Development, QA UAT and Production
Worked with project documentation and documented other application related issues, bugs on internal wiki website
A highly motivated, energetic individual, a team player with excellent communication and inter-personal skills
Trainings
Jenkins, Linux, Terraform, Docker and hands on training on AWS and Azure
Timeline
DevOps Engineer
World Tradings
02.2020 - 07.2024
DevOps Engineer
Santa Monica Studios
03.2016 - 04.2020
Bachelor of Arts - Business Management
Ballarat University
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