Platform Engineer specializing in Kubernetes-based platforms on AWS, with 7+ years of experience building and operating production systems at scale. Strong focus on platform reliability, automation, and cost-efficient infrastructure, with experience spanning SRE, technical leadership, and developer enablement.

Experience

Personal SaaS Project Platform Engineer / Technical Lead Nov 2025 - Present
Initiated and led the technical design of a SaaS product from concept to pre-launch, collaborating with a small cross-functional team. Designed the overall system architecture, including data model and service boundaries. Owned cloud infrastructure and platform engineering, deploying Kubernetes-based environments with FluxCD (GitOps) and GitHub Actions. Established CI/CD pipelines, environment promotion workflows, and observability from the ground up. Actively participated in product discovery and client meetings, translating business requirements into technical solutions.
Jumia Platform Engineer Feb 2024 - Oct 2025
Core member of the central Platform Engineering team, shaping cloud infrastructure strategy across Jumia. Reduced AWS costs by $100K/month by auditing resource usage, identifying over-provisioned services and unused workloads, and streamlining the monitoring stack to eliminate redundant data ingestion and storage. Led the migration of PCI-DSS workloads from legacy EC2 + Jenkins to a modern EKS-based Kubernetes platform. Introduced and standardized GitHub Actions and ArgoCD across >150 projects, streamlining CI/CD and improving deployment reliability.
Jumia SRE Tech Lead Jan 2023 - Jan 2024
Served as technical lead for the JumiaPay SRE team, setting technical direction, priorities, and standards for reliability and platform evolution. Led the migration of backend services from two legacy Kubernetes clusters to EKS, defining the target architecture and execution plan while ensuring minimal downtime. Drove improvements in scalability, observability, and automation across payment systems supporting critical business workflows. Acted as a mentor and technical escalation point for SREs, supporting design reviews, incident response, and on-call best practices.
Jumia SRE Nov 2020 - Dec 2022
Operated and evolved AWS-based production infrastructure supporting JumiaPay’s core payment services. Managed containerized workloads using Kubernetes, Docker, and Helm, with infrastructure defined and maintained via Terraform and Ansible. Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines and operational tooling, reducing manual intervention and improving deployment reliability. Played an active role in on-call rotations and incident response, diagnosing production issues and driving root-cause analysis. Collaborated closely with backend engineering teams to improve service reliability, performance, and operability.
HIRI DevOps Engineer Jul 2019 - Sep 2020
Acted as the sole DevOps engineer in a small startup, owning infrastructure, CI/CD, and deployment processes end-to-end. Helped shape early technical decisions while balancing speed, reliability, and limited resources.
MOG Technologies Cloud Engineer Aug 2018 - Jun 2019
Led containerization and architectural integration across multiple projects using Docker, LXC, Kubernetes (AKS/EKS), and Helm. Designed and maintained a scalable CI/CD solution with GitLab Pipelines and Kubernetes.
MOG Technologies Intern Feb 2018 - Aug 2018
Developed cloud-ready solutions guaranteeing the life-cycle of application modules and services, providing modularity and scalability. Internship in the context of the PESTI course from ISEP.
Armis Group Summer Intern Jul 2017 - Sep 2017
Co-developed Paddle, a cross-platform native Canoeing Results app for Android and iOS, with a custom ASP.NET backend.

Education

ISEP Bachelor in Computer Engineering Sep 2015 - Jul 2018
Took part of CDIO-IL, an MIT initiative that emphasizes engineering fundamentals through real-world projects in collaboration with companies.

Courses

Cisco Network Academy CCNA: Routing and Switching Apr 2016 - Mar 2017