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I'm Ndifreke Essien, a Senior Cloud & DevOps engineer with 15+ years in software. I design, automate and run infrastructure on AWS, Azure and Kubernetes for banking, payments, SaaS and edge-AI teams.

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01 / Services

What I can do for your team

Engagements from a two-week audit to long-term platform ownership. You get senior hands on the keyboard, not slide decks.

Cloud architecture & migration

Landing zones, VPC design and lift-and-improve migrations on AWS and Azure, sized for today and ready for 10x.

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Terraform

Kubernetes & containers

Production-grade EKS, AKS and bare-metal clusters, including air-gapped installs, Helm charts and hardening.

  • EKS / AKS
  • Helm
  • Docker

CI/CD & release engineering

Pipelines that test, build, migrate and deploy on every merge, with blue/green, phased rollouts and real rollbacks.

  • GitHub Actions
  • Jenkins
  • Azure DevOps

Observability & reliability

Metrics, logs, alerts and runbooks, so you find out before your customers do. Incident triage and RCA when it matters.

  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Azure Monitor

Edge, IoT & AI platforms

Fleets of NVIDIA Jetson appliances talking securely to the cloud over MQTT, with media streaming and ML at the edge.

  • Jetson
  • MQTT
  • MediaMTX

Secure fintech integrations

ISO 8583, HSMs, core banking and front-end processors, on Linux servers hardened for compliance.

  • ISO 8583
  • HSM
  • PKI

AI-native engineering. I use agentic tooling (Claude Code, OpenClaw) to move faster on infrastructure, troubleshooting and automation, so your budget buys outcomes, not hours.

02 / Selected work

Platforms I've built and run

Click a project for the challenge, what I did and the result.

Engineered

Apps I architected, specified and directed, with the code written by Claude Code under my review.

Engineered and Developed

Tools and frameworks I designed and wrote myself, line by line.

03 / Experience

15 years, one direction

From full-stack PHP to platform engineering: I've written the apps I now deploy, which is why the pipelines I build fit the people using them.

B.Eng. Computer EngineeringUniversity of Uyo, Nigeria
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    04 / Toolbox

    The stack I work in

    AWS

    EC2, EKS, ECS, ECR, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, VPC, Route 53, ELB, CloudFormation, IAM, Amplify, SES, ElastiCache, Systems Manager, CloudFront

    Azure

    VMs, App Service, AKS, Functions, VNet, Load Balancer, Application Gateway, Azure DevOps, ARM, Blob Storage, SQL, Cosmos DB, Monitor, Key Vault, Logic Apps

    Containers & IaC

    Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, ARM, Nexus, Harbor

    CI/CD

    GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Git

    Observability

    Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, centralized logging, health checks

    Systems

    Linux (Debian, RedHat), Windows Server, Nginx, Apache, Postfix, SSH, TCP/IP, firewalls, VPNs

    Code

    Python (FastAPI), Bash, PowerShell, Node.js (Express), PHP (Laravel, CodeIgniter), JavaScript

    Data

    PostgreSQL + pgvector, MySQL, MSSQL, MongoDB, Redis

    05 / How we'd work

    From first call to hand-over

    1. 1

      Assess

      A short audit of your cloud, pipelines and on-call pain. You get a written, prioritised plan.

    2. 2

      Design

      Architecture and rollout plan agreed with your team, with cost and risk spelled out.

    3. 3

      Build & automate

      Infrastructure as code, pipelines and monitoring, shipped in small, reversible steps.

    4. 4

      Operate & hand over

      Runbooks, dashboards and training, or I stay on as your platform lead.

    06 / Contact

    Let's make your platform boring.

    Boring as in: deploys just work, alerts mean something and nobody gets paged at 3am. Tell me what you're running and where it hurts.