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Lawrence A. - Remote DevOps engineer

Lawrence A.

Senior Devops Engineer
Based in: 🇳🇬 Nigeria
Timezone: Berlin (UTC+2)

Summary

Lawrence is a seasoned DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer with 8+ years of experience in the industry and a proven track record of designing, implementing, and optimizing scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud-based architectures. Over the course of his career, Lawrence has built a diverse skill set, which includes popular cloud providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). He possesses a deep understanding of DevOps fundamentals, software development, version control systems, infrastructure as code (IaC), CI/CD, and containerization. Possessing a hefty dose of professionalism and outstanding knowledge of software architecture, Lawrence can make significant contributions to any organization's DevOps initiatives.

Work Experience

Senior Devops Engineer
Epyphite PTE Ltd. | Oct 2022 - Present
JavaScript
Kubernetes
Terraform
.NET
CI/CD
AWS (Amazon Web Services)

Worked on automating manual processes related to infrastructure into IaC. Created and debugged processes around the migration.

  • Migrated .NET codebase and infrastructure to standard tooling and practices
  • Connected embedded devices to AWS IoT
  • Laid out the plan for standardizing the Terraform codebase
Senior Cloud Engineer
Gatsby Inc. | Feb 2022 - Sep 2022
Node.js
GitHub
Google Cloud Platform
Kubernetes
Circleci
Grafana
Prometheus
CI/CD

Worked on Gatsby Cloud. Handled on-call duties.

  • Built Kubernetes tooling for pod and node resource management
  • Created and monitored Kubernetes clusters
  • Built pipelines on GitLab, GitHub, and CircleCI
  • Worked with IaC using Terraform

Education

Federal University of Technology Owerri
Bachelor's degree・Soil Science and Technology
Nov 2011 - Nov 2016

Personal Projects

Shipping Service
2017
Node.js
Redis
RabbitMQ
StatsD
This service is meant to serve as a centralized point for details related to shipping(Shipping cost, locations, ETAs, etc). This service is intended to serve all systems within the organization. Technologies used in this project are, docker, nodejs, graphql and RabbitMQ. I work on creating APIs necessary to fetch retrieve and calculate shipping cost/details. I am also building the consumers and for use with the RabbitMQ message queuing system.
OhKay App
2017
PHP
Android
Xamarin
Laravel 5
The OhKay App is an Android app meant to connect students who wish to buy and sell stuff within their school environment. These things include, apartment furniture, school books, beddings, etc. The App was built using Xamarin(.NET) and I worked majorly on the backend using php(Laravel) for building the APIs.

Certifications & Awards

Microsoft Certified Professional: Architecting Azure Solutions
Microsoft | Aug 2018