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Akintola A.

Platform Engineer | AWS DevOps & Cloud Engineer | Full Stack Developer

🏆 Top 3% Talent on Upwork | Top Rated Plus | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Best DevOps engineer we’ve worked with, rock-solid infrastructure, flawless delivery, and top-tier documentation." I’m a Senior DevOps, Cloud Architect, and Site Reliability Engineer with 8+ years of experience building and scaling infrastructure for startups and fintech companies handling millions in transactions. If you're running an AI solution, fintech, or high-growth product and want: • Zero-downtime deployments • Scalable Kubernetes infrastructure • Bulletproof CI/CD pipelines • Cost-optimized AWS environments → I’m the engineer you call when things need to work right the first time. 🧠 WHAT I ACTUALLY DO I'm Akintola. I design production-grade cloud infrastructure that doesn’t break under pressure. I don’t just "set things up". I OWN systems that are: - Resilient (failures don’t take you down) - Scalable (ready for growth) - Observable (you know what’s happening at all times) - Automated (no manual headaches) WHAT I CAN HELP YOU WITH ✔ Architect & deploy secure AWS infrastructure (EKS, ECS, VPC, RDS, S3, Lambda) ✔ Build production-ready Kubernetes clusters (EKS + autoscaling + ingress + security) ✔ Set up CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins) ✔ Implement Infrastructure as Code with Terraform ✔ Design monitoring & alerting systems (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, New Relic) ✔ Optimize cloud costs without sacrificing performance ✔ Troubleshoot critical production issues under pressure WHAT MAKES ME DIFFERENT ⁃ Built and managed 20+ Kubernetes clusters in production ⁃ Supported platforms handling high-value financial transactions ⁃ Strong software engineering background → I understand your app, not just infra ⁃ Deep focus on observability, reliability, and performance ⁃ Known for clear, professional documentation HOW I WORK I collaborate closely with you to: 1- Understand your business goals 2- Design the right architecture 3- Deliver clean, documented, production-ready systems No shortcuts. No fragile setups. No surprises. 🧰 Listed below are my experience and skills: DevOps - Amazon Cloud Web Services (EC2, EKS, ECS, RDS, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, Route 53, CodePipelines, OpenSearch ...) - Azure Services (VM, Storage Account, Azure Pipelines) - Github, GitLab, Bitbucket, Travis CI, Circle CI - Docker - Kubernetes - Terraform - Jenkins Data extraction - Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana. Database system administration - PostgreSQL - MySQL - MongoDB - Oracle 11g - SQLite Front-end web development - HTML, CSS & Javascript - Bootstrap - VueJS - Buefy - Vuetify Back-end web development - PHP - Laravel - NodeJS System Administration - Ubuntu - Debian - Proxmox - Shared webserver config Version control and team working tool - Git - Github - GitLab - Bitbucket

🇧🇯Abomey-Calavi, Benin$50/hr100% JSS2.87 (20)Since Dec 2019
MRR
$500
🌍#74.6K/363K
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Recent Earnings
$3,000
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Total Earnings
$120K
🌍#29.5K/363K
🇧🇯#10/312
Avg. Per Project
$4,276
🌍#37.5K/363K
🇧🇯#16/312
Recent Projects
3
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Total Projects
28
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World Skill Rankings
of 302
#66
Cloud EngineeringTop 22%
#67Infrastructure as Code
#87Cloud Migration
#130DevOps Engineering
#152Elasticsearch
#183Cloud Architecture
#310Terraform
#377Linux System Administration
#379System Administration
#519Kubernetes
#617CI/CD
#768DevOps
#1,344Amazon Web Services
#1,438Docker
🇧🇯Benin Skill Rankings
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#1
DevOps EngineeringTop <0.01%
#1DevOps
#1Linux System Administration
#1System Administration
#1Infrastructure as Code
#1Cloud Architecture
#1Terraform
#1Cloud Engineering
#1Kubernetes
#1CI/CD
#1Cloud Migration
#1Elasticsearch
#2Amazon Web Services
#2Docker
Akintola A. — Top 15% in Benin | UpworkMRR