👩‍💻 Okafor-Ndubueze Laura Mmesoma - DevOps Engineer & Cloud Architect

About Me

Professional Summary

DevOps Engineer with expertise in designing and managing scalable cloud infrastructure, CI/CD automation, and container orchestration. Skilled in AWS, Terraform, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Ansible, with a strong focus on Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and GitOps practices. Experienced in building secure, cost-effective, and high-availability pipelines that streamline deployments and improve system reliability. Dedicated to continuous improvement, operational excellence, and delivering innovative cloud-native solutions.

Education

Master of Information Technology Security – Cybersecurity Governance

Ontario Tech University (2026 - Present)

BSC Software Engineering

Baze University Abuja (2021 - 2024)

Core Competencies

☁️ Cloud Platforms

AWS Azure GCP

📦 Containerization & Orchestration

Docker Kubernetes Docker Compose

🔄 CI/CD & Automation

Jenkins GitHub Actions ArgoCD Tekton GitLab CI/CD

🏗️ Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Terraform Ansible Helm

📊 Monitoring & Logging

Prometheus Grafana ELK Stack

💻 Version Control & Collaboration

Git GitHub GitLab

🔒 Security & Compliance (DevSecOps)

HashiCorp Vault SonarQube

⚡ Scripting & Programming

Bash Python YAML

Professional Experience

DevOps Engineer (Freelance)

gesturehq.com

Nov 2025 - Present

• Executed complete infrastructure migration from Linode to AWS for AI-powered Django application utilizing YOLO for nail detection and Stability AI for image generation
• Designed scalable AWS infrastructure including EC2, RDS (PostgreSQL), S3, VPC networking with security groups and IAM policies
• Configured Celery with Redis for asynchronous ML model operations and integrated Django REST Framework with SimpleJWT authentication and Paystack payment processing
• Established CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and deployment, reducing manual deployment time by 70%, and implemented CloudWatch monitoring for proactive issue detection
• Impact: Delivered zero-downtime migration, improved response time by 60%, achieved 99.9% uptime supporting 1000+ active users

DevOps Engineer (Contract)

Artificial Intelligence Technology (AITECH), Abuja

Oct 2024 - Apr 2025

• Engineered AWS cloud infrastructure (EC2, EKS, VPC) supporting multi-component applications across dev, staging, and production environments
• Developed CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions with automated testing, security scanning, and deployments, embedding DevSecOps practices throughout the delivery workflow
• Implemented monitoring using CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana for real-time metrics and alerting, and provisioned infrastructure-as-code using Terraform
• Automated operational workflows through Python and Bash scripting, reducing manual intervention by 40%, and performed Linux system administration
• Impact: Reduced deployment time by 50%, achieved 99.5% uptime, improved incident response by 35%

Web Development Intern

NIIT Nigeria

Jan 2023 - Jun 2023

• Developed responsive web applications using HTML, CSS, and Python frameworks
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to implement web components and features
• Managed version control using Git and GitHub, participating in code reviews
• Contributed to comprehensive technical documentation for web projects
• Impact: Contributed to 7+ web projects with improved code quality and team collaboration

Featured Projects

A Cloud-Native Application Platform on AWS EKS

TaskFlow is a cloud-native platform showcasing deployment and management of full-stack apps on AWS EKS with Terraform, ArgoCD, Prometheus, Grafana, RBAC, Network Policies, and auto-scaling for scalable, secure, and observable Kubernetes applications.

AWS EKS Terraform ArgoCD Kubernetes Helm Prometheus Grafana CloudWatch GitHub CI/CD React Django PostgreSQL RBAC HPA eksctl kube-state-metrics CloudWatch Logging Git triggers Network Policies metrics-server

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