Platform Reliability Engineer
Cloud platforms that hold up in production.
I build secure delivery systems, reliable infrastructure, and operational guardrails for teams that need more than YAML, dashboards, and green pipelines. The goal is simple: ship confidently, recover quickly, and own failure before users feel it.
Certifications
About
Platform-minded cloud engineer.
A practical lens for thinking about DevOps beyond tools: safe delivery, clear operations, reliable platforms, and production ownership.
Production perspective
I don't just wire tools together. I design for the moment when systems drift, latency rises, and someone needs a calm path back to healthy production.
Career Snapshot
From full-stack engineering into platform reliability work.
My path moved intentionally across the stack, which is why I care less about tool-chasing and more about production outcomes: delivery that is safe, infrastructure that is understandable, and systems that keep giving useful signals when things go wrong. The big-picture direction below is a useful reference for setting the right mental model around modern DevOps and platform reliability.
- BSc Information Technology, University of Ghana
- Full-stack foundation across design, frontend, backend, and infrastructure
- Focused on platform reliability, production ownership, and AI-assisted cloud automation
Featured
Signature Projects.
My most complete end-to-end platform builds.
Enterprise AWS Platform Engineering
A production-grade cloud platform built on AWS EKS with Terraform environment isolation, polyglot CI/CD across Node.js, Java, and Rust, GitOps via ArgoCD, and a layered security scanning strategy ā end to end.
- AWS EKS
- Terraform
- GitHub Actions
- ArgoCD
- Helm
- Docker
- ECR
- Prometheus
- Grafana
Projects
Selected work.
Cloud, platform, and software engineering projects.
Kubernetes Workload Platform on AWS EKS
Provisioned a production-grade EKS cluster on AWS with Terraform, deployed containerised workloads using Helm, and automated the full delivery pipeline with Jenkins.
- AWS EKS
- Terraform
- Jenkins
- Helm
- Docker
- ECR
Containerised Application Delivery on AWS ECS
End-to-end deployment of a Node.js frontend and backend on AWS ECS Fargate, automated through a Jenkins CI/CD pipeline and provisioned with Terraform.
- AWS ECS Fargate
- Jenkins
- Terraform
- Docker
- ECR
AWS Infrastructure Automation with Terraform and Ansible
Provisioned EC2, S3, and IAM resources on AWS using Terraform, then configured a production-ready Nginx web server on the instance using Ansible playbooks.
- Terraform
- Ansible
- AWS EC2
- AWS S3
- Nginx
Writing
Notes & Insights.
Thoughts on cloud, infrastructure, and software.
Kubernetes Operators: The Missing Piece After Helm
A practical first-principles guide to Kubernetes Operators, why Helm only solves Day 1 deployment, and how operators encode Day 2 operational knowledge into the cluster.
- Kubernetes
- Operators
- Helm
- Platform Engineering
Helm Explained Properly: Why Kubernetes Needed It and How It Makes Life Easier
A practical guide to what Helm solves in Kubernetes, how charts and values work, and why releases, upgrades, and rollbacks make real operations easier.
- Kubernetes
- Helm
- CI/CD
Kubernetes Internals Notes: API Server, RBAC, Scheduling, and Controllers
A practical, student-friendly guide to the Kubernetes request flow, authentication vs authorization, controllers, scheduler behavior, rolling updates, and workload resilience.
- Kubernetes
- Platform Engineering
- AWS
Understanding IRSA in EKS: How Pods Securely Access AWS Resources
A student-friendly guide to IRSA in EKS, explaining why node roles are not enough, how OIDC trust works, and how pods get short-lived AWS credentials safely.
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- Platform Engineering