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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

Earnings and projects

MRR
$511

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#77,054 / 412k
🇧🇯Country#53 / 342
Revenue, last 30 days
$100

Last 6 months: $3.1k

World#91,743 / 412k
🇧🇯Country#79 / 342
Total earnings
$120k

Billed in all: $125k

World#31,644 / 412k
🇧🇯Country#12 / 342
Per project
$4.3k

$3.1k in the last 6 months

World#40,371 / 412k
🇧🇯Country#18 / 342
Projects, last 6 months
1
100% fixed0% hourly
World#128,096 / 412k
🇧🇯Country#116 / 342
Projects in all
28

Across 34 contracts

41% fixed59% hourly
World#103,226 / 412k
🇧🇯Country#103 / 342

Earnings, last 30 days

$125k+$100 earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$125,150$125,200$125,250$125,300Oct 9Oct 24Nov 8

Skill rankings: Top 15% in Linux System Administration

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  5. #147Elasticsearch946 freelancers · 🇧🇯 #1Top 16%
  6. #186Cloud Architecture966 freelancers · 🇧🇯 #1Top 19%
  7. #341Terraform2,052 freelancers · 🇧🇯 #1Top 17%
  8. #379Linux System Administration2,578 freelancers · 🇧🇯 #1Top 15%