Umaru F. A.
Senior Cloud & Site Reliability Engineer @Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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WORK HISTORY
Senior Cloud & Site Reliability Engineer @Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Developed Golang-based scripts for auto-remediation of failed CI/CD jobs, improving pipeline reliability by 30%.2. Supporting migration from legacy infrastructure to an Internal Developer Platform (IDP), enabling self-service environment provisioning via Backstage, reducing lead time for developers by 50%.3. Developed secure, scalable DevOps workflows for PCI-DSS-compliant payment processing infrastructure. Optimized Redis caching for fraud detection microservices, reducing transaction validation time by 20%.4. Supporting the provisioning of multi-region AWS infrastructure by integrating Terraform & Terragrunt for modularized deployment, reducing provisioning time by 40%. Implemented OPA/Checkov for compliance and security validation5. Maintained highly available Kubernetes clusters, implementing GitOps workflows with ArgoCD and Flux, reducing deployment failures by 35%.6. Automated cluster scaling and self-healing mechanisms using KEDA and Cluster Autoscaler, improving application uptime by 99.99%
EDUCATION
Howard University
Bachelors, Management Information Systems, General
ABOUT UMARU F. A.
I’m a DevOps and Cloud Engineering leader with over 10 years of experience driving scalable, secure, and high-performing infrastructure for both startups and Fortune 500 clients. My expertise spans across AWS, Azure, and GCP, with deep specialization in Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and cloud-native architectures.Throughout my career, I’ve led end-to-end platform engineering initiatives—from designing immutable infrastructure with Terraform and Terragrunt to building self-healing Kubernetes clusters with GitOps workflows using ArgoCD, Flux, and Jenkins. I’ve built and optimized internal developer platforms (IDPs), automated operational tasks with Python, Golang, and PowerShell, and enabled machine learning environments with tools like Kafka, MLflow, and SageMaker.I’ve had the privilege of supporting high-impact projects at AWS, Block, Nike, and JPMorgan, among others. At Rohirrim.ai, I helped build a Generative AI-powered platform that cut deployment time from 4 hours to 6 minutes. At Pinnacle, I contributed to PCI-DSS infrastructure, multi-GPU workload optimization, and multi-region architecture, improving deployment reliability and uptime significantly.I\'m passionate about operational excellence, DevSecOps, and team enablement, always striving to reduce toil, promote engineering velocity, and ensure compliance through automation. I’m also certified as an AWS DevOps Professional, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, and Kubernetes Administrator. Let’s connect if you’re interested in platform engineering, infrastructure as code, or scaling DevOps for growth.
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