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Mucheru James Maina
Infrastructure & Platform Engineer · Technical Product Builder
Summary
Infrastructure and platform engineer with a networking background and experience in AWS, Kubernetes, Linux, and production reliability. I automate cloud infrastructure with Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD, and build developer-focused products alongside my engineering work.
Professional Experience
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Dec 2022 — PresentIgnite Energy Access (formerly ENGIE Energy Access) · Nairobi (Remote)
- Led an identity migration from Okta to Microsoft Entra ID across 10+ systems, including SAML/OIDC integrations and user migration.
- Migrated logging system single sign-on and resolved related integration issues.
- Managed an AWS account migration during a corporate divestiture, including access changes and service documentation.
- Own security and reliability work for hybrid cloud infrastructure supporting operations across nine African countries.
- Handle incident response for storage and Kubernetes networking failures.
- Upgraded GitLab across major versions with change management and resolved a database incident without data loss.
- Designed secure networking for PostgreSQL replication and build auditable GitOps deployment pipelines with ArgoCD.
Cloud DevOps Engineer
2022 — Jan 2023Ponea Health
- Created, configured, and maintained AWS infrastructure.
- Developed and maintained CI/CD pipelines with CircleCI and Jenkins.
- Automated deployments with Terraform, AWS SAM, and CloudFormation.
- Deployed serverless applications to AWS Lambda with AWS SAM.
Software Developer
2021 — PresentBrightDrips, Nairobi
- Design and deliver applications using Python.
- Configuration management and deployment tooling.
- Build and maintain AWS infrastructure — VPC, EC2, RDS, S3, Route 53, SNS, CloudFront, CloudWatch, and IAM.
- Implement CI/CD pipelines with CloudFormation and Terraform, plus Jenkins, Docker, and CircleCI for full commit-to-deploy automation.
System Administrator
2016 — 2020Urithi, Nairobi
- Troubleshoot hardware and software errors — diagnostics, documentation, and impact assessment.
- Provide documentation and technical specs for IT infrastructure planning and upgrades.
- Maintain and configure computer systems, network servers, and virtualisation.
- Perform regular backups and implement data protection, disaster recovery, and failover procedures.
Education & Certifications
Cloud DevOps Nanodegree
BSc, Computer Science
- ▸KCNA — Kubernetes & Cloud Native Associate (CNCF)
- ▸GitOps at Scale (Codefresh)
- ▸AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
- ▸Udacity — Cloud DevOps Engineer
- ▸AWS Community Builder
Community & Speaking
Presented “LXD in Production: Building a Cost-Effective Private Cloud on Bare Metal for African Deployments”
AWS Community Builder
Amazon Web Services community program
Recognized among the event team
Participant — CyberGame 2026 CTF
Capture-the-flag security competition