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👋 About me

I'm a DevOps & Cloud Engineer in Lagos with 3+ years of experience. I lead a team of 5 engineers and own the full path from commit to production on AWS. I care about three things: security by default, cost you can explain, and automation that removes the 2 a.m. page.

I'm based in Lagos (WAT, UTC+1) and open to remote roles, working asynchronously with distributed teams.

Outside work I run a Kubernetes homelab, build developer tools, write about what I learn on DEV, and go to the gym.

📈 Impact

🏗️ Led a team of 5 to containerise 5 monolithic apps and split CI/CD into isolated stages, speeding up releases and cutting MTTR (how we did it)
⚡ Cut deploy time on an 8-service microservices monorepo from 15 min to under 5 min, even on a cold cache. Moved builds to self-hosted runners with parallel multi-process builds instead of GitHub's matrix builds, added proper Docker layer caching, and a scheduled workflow that warms the cache each morning. GitHub Actions overage charges all but disappeared
🔐 Ran the company's NDPA compliance program end to end, from controls to full audit
📊 Built centralised observability (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki) for proactive incident detection
☸️ Run workloads on AWS EKS with ArgoCD GitOps, Helm and Kustomize

🚀 Featured projects

🔌 Relay

Your SSH and remote desktop connections, organised, in one fast desktop app. Built for people who connect to many servers every day, with a relay-ssh CLI that reads and writes the same data.

🌳 Connections in a folder tree, opened in a real terminal with tabs and split panes
🔀 Jump hosts and port forwards you set once, plus a file browser and key management
🖥️ Windows remote desktop (RDP) tabs alongside your SSH sessions
🔒 Runs your system's OpenSSH instead of reimplementing it. Passwords are only kept if you opt in, in an encrypted vault

Go Svelte Wails OpenSSH RDP

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🧠 dev-pops-skills

My DevOps best practices, packaged as agent skills, so an AI agent builds infrastructure the way I would. Ask Claude Code or Antigravity to "dockerize this API" or "host this SPA on S3 + CloudFront" and you get pinned images, OIDC instead of long-lived keys, and deploys that can roll back, not something that only works once.

The skills are kept correct: every external fact is verified and sourced, a validator checks every pull request, and a weekly job flags stale versions.

Skill	Teaches the agent to…
🐳 docker	write Dockerfiles and compose stacks for Node APIs, SPAs, Next.js and Nitro
🚀 cicd	build GitHub Actions CI, push to GHCR, deploy over SSH or to S3 + CloudFront
🏗️ terraform	write AWS infra (EC2, ECS + ALB, static sites) with OIDC deploy roles
🔐 security	add gitleaks, Trivy and dependency audits; harden workflows and containers
🐚 scripting	write shell scripts and Makefiles that fail fast and behave the same everywhere
🧩 project-infra	set up or audit a whole repo with all of the above wired together

Agent Skills Claude Code Terraform GitHub Actions Docker

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🐳 Two-Tier App with Docker & Jenkins

Two-tier web app containerised with Docker and shipped through a Jenkins CI/CD pipeline, with architecture diagrams and a full walkthrough.

Docker Jenkins CI/CD Compose

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🏠 Homelab

Production-style platform on k3s: ArgoCD GitOps, MetalLB, cert-manager, Harbor registry, Vault, Cloudflared and Uptime Kuma, all declared in Git.

k3s ArgoCD Vault Harbor

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