DevOps/Cloud Engineer | Automating Infrastructure & Deployment | Flask Developer

Hi!

I'm Chris Thuo

DevOps | SRE | Cloud Engineer

About Me

Greetings! I'm Chris Mwangi Thuo, a passionate DevOps Engineer with a deep-rooted love for all things technology. My journey in the tech began with the exploration of coding languages, networks, and systems. As I learned more about software development, I found myself equally captivated by the challenges posed by deployment, scaling, and automation. This discovery sparked my transition into the world of DevOps – an area where I could bridge the gap between developers and operations professionals to create efficient and reliable systems. With a solid foundation in software engineering and a knack for problem-solving, I've honed my skills in designing CI/CD pipelines, configuring infrastructure as code and orchestrating containerized applications.I am also certified as an AWS Solutions Architect, which demonstrates my proficiency in designing and implementing scalable and secure cloud solutions.

When I'm not busy with tech stuff, you might find me outside, travelling, swimming, or enjoying a formula one race/Football match. Life is an adventure, just like technology!

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Experience

Independent Contractor | Kenya, Nairobi

DevOps/Cloud Engineer | 05/2022 - Present

Effectuated an automated infrastructure for a complex web application using Ansible, resulting in a 50% reduction in deployment time, thus enabling faster updates and delivery of new features to users.
Streamlined client's infrastructure , identifying inefficiencies and proposing AWS-based solutions (VPC, EC2, S3, Aurora, IAM, ECS) for resource optimization. Achieved 40% cost reduction while maintaining performance and scalability.
Optimized system performance by customizing CloudWatch dashboards, driving a 30% increase in visibility and enhancing monitoring capabilities.
Designed and operationalized a microservices architecture utilizing Docker and Kubernetes. This approach led to a 40% improvement in system efficiency as individual services could be modified with ease.
Configured a continuous integration and continuous delivery(CI/CD) pipeline using Jenkins, which markedly raised the frequency of deployments by 50%.
Achieved 95% reduction in provisioning time by migrating manual infrastructure provisioning to Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Terraform, resulting in faster deployments and resource scaling.

Kenya Revenue Authority | Kenya, Nairobi

DevOps/Cloud Engineer Intern | 01/2022 - 07/2022

Detected and responded to incidents such as outages, performance degradation, and security breaches. By handling these incidents in a timely and effective manner, downtime and security breaches decreased by 90% and 75%respectively.
Orchestrated the implementation of a CI/CD pipeline with Jenkins, automating the build, test, and deployment process for a number of microservices; reduced updates rollout time by 75% and increased up-time by 20%.
Automated backup processes using Python scripts and AWS S3 storage, yielding an increment of backup and restore process efficiency by 75%.