Daniel Kojo Megbenu

About Daniel Kojo Megbenu

I’m a Cloud/DevOps Engineer with 8+ years of experience building scalable, secure cloud…

Experience

1. Cloud Devops Engineer

   Data Service Group

   Aug 2020 — Present · DE, US

   Spearheaded integration of automated security tools like SonarQube, Snyk, and AWS Inspector into CI/CD pipelines, reducing vulnerabilities by 25% and ensuring compliance with OWASP and industry best practices. Designed and managed cloud infrastructure using Terraform for IaC, streamlining provisioning across development, staging, and production environments consistently and efficiently. Engineered scalable Jenkins CI/CD pipelines with automated build, test, and deploy stages, reducing deployment time by 50% and improving release reliability. Optimized AWS services (EC2, RDS, ELB, S3) using auto-scaling, cost monitoring, and tagging, achieving a 30% reduction in cloud spend without compromising availability. Implemented monitoring and alerting via AWS CloudWatch, Datadog, and ELK stack, creating dashboards and thresholds to maintain 99.99% uptime and rapid issue response. Built and maintained Dockerized microservices, orchestrated containers in dev/test environments, and collaborated using Git and GitLab for streamlined integration and release management.

Education

• Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi

  Master's degree, Accounting and Finance

• Regentropfen college of Applied Sciences

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Business Administration

• University of Fairfax

  Master of Science - MS, Cloud Computing