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Nehemiah

Building the foundation
teams depend on

I'm Nehemiah, a DevOps Engineer focused on platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, and observability. I build automated, reliable systems that reduce operational overhead and help engineering teams deliver software efficiently.

99.9% SLA maintained
50+ pipelines shipped
0 unsolved incidents

The stack I work with

Tools I reach for daily — and a few I've used enough to know when not to reach for them.

Cloud & Infrastructure

  • AWS (EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, Lambda, VPC)
  • Terraform
  • AWS CDK
  • Ansible

Containers & Orchestration

  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Helm
  • ArgoCD

CI/CD & Automation

  • GitHub Actions
  • Bash
  • Python
  • Go

Observability

  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Loki
  • Tempo
  • OpenTelemetry

Security & Networking

  • AWS IAM
  • Vault (HashiCorp)
  • NGINX
  • Cloudflare
  • AWS WAF

Databases & Storage

  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • DynamoDB
  • AWS RDS
  • S3 / Glacier

Things I've built

A selection of infrastructure, automation, and platform projects — with real numbers where I can share them.

Zero-Downtime Multi-Region Deployment Pipeline

↓ 87% deploy time

Designed and built a fully automated blue-green deployment pipeline across two AWS regions using GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, and Terraform. Reduced mean deploy time from 45 minutes to under 6 minutes.

Platform Observability Stack

↓ 60% MTTR

Built a self-hosted observability platform on Kubernetes using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and OpenTelemetry. Centralized metrics, logs, and traces for 12 microservices with automated alerting via PagerDuty.

Internal Developer Platform (IDP)

↓ 80% toil

Designed a Backstage-based IDP that gave developers self-service access to infrastructure provisioning, service catalog, and runbooks. Reduced platform team toil by automating 80% of repetitive requests.

GitOps Infrastructure at Scale

40+ services migrated

Migrated 40+ services from manual kubectl deploys to a fully GitOps-driven workflow using ArgoCD and Kustomize. Every production change is now version-controlled, reviewed, and auditable.

Where I've worked

2023 — present Remote

Senior Platform Engineer

current

Your Company

  • Led migration of 40+ microservices to a GitOps-driven deployment model on EKS, reducing deploy failures by 65%.
  • Designed and launched an internal developer platform that cut platform team toil by 80% through self-service automation.
  • Maintained 99.9% SLA across production systems serving millions of daily requests.
2021 — 2023 Lagos, Nigeria

DevOps Engineer

Previous Company

  • Built CI/CD pipelines for 15 engineering squads using GitHub Actions, reducing time-to-production from days to hours.
  • Deployed and managed observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty) across 3 AWS environments.
  • Introduced infrastructure-as-code practices with Terraform, bringing 100% of cloud resources under version control.
2019 — 2021 Lagos, Nigeria

SRE / Systems Engineer

Earlier Company

  • Reduced mean time to recovery (MTTR) from 4 hours to under 40 minutes through improved runbooks and alerting.
  • Containerized 8 legacy services with Docker, paving the way for a Kubernetes migration.
  • Drove post-incident review culture, resulting in 70% fewer repeat incidents in the following year.

Things I think about

Occasional writing on platform engineering, SRE practices, and the messy human side of keeping systems running.

posts coming soon

Why Your Kubernetes Readiness Probes Are Lying to You

A deep dive into the subtle misconfiguration that silently routes traffic to pods that aren't ready — and how to fix it properly.

GitOps Is Not a Deployment Strategy — It's a Discipline

The difference between teams that adopt ArgoCD as a tool and teams that actually practice GitOps. Spoiler: it's mostly cultural.

The Runbook Is a Love Letter to Your 3am Self

How I learned to write runbooks that actually help during incidents, not just check a compliance box.

Let's work together

Open to DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineering roles — and always happy to talk about infrastructure, security, reliability, or GitOps.

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Open to opportunities

Looking for senior IC or staff-level Platform / SRE roles.

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