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.

7+ Years in production
$1.2M Cloud spend cut / year
150+ Projects on golden CI/CD
PCI-DSS Compliant platforms migrated
Cloud & Infra
  • AWS
  • EKS
  • Linux
Orchestration
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Helm
Infra as Code
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
GitOps & CI/CD
  • ArgoCD
  • FluxCD
  • GitHub Actions
Languages
  • Python
  • Bash

Experience

  1. BOSCH Jun 2026 – Now
    Platform Engineer

    Working on the eBikes project.

  2. Personal SaaS Project Nov 2025 – Now
    Platform Engineer / Technical Lead

    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.

  3. Jumia Nov 2020 – Oct 2025
    1. 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.

    2. 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.

    3. 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.

  4. HIRI Jul 2019 – Sep 2020
    DevOps Engineer

    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.

  5. MOG Technologies Feb 2018 – Jun 2019
    1. 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.

    2. 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.

  6. Armis Group Jul 2017 – Sep 2017
    Summer Intern

    Co-developed Paddle, a cross-platform native Canoeing Results app for Android and iOS, with a custom ASP.NET backend.

Education

  1. ISEP Sep 2015 – Jul 2018
    Bachelor in Computer Engineering

    Took part of CDIO-IL, an MIT initiative that emphasizes engineering fundamentals through real-world projects in collaboration with companies.

Courses

  1. Cisco Network Academy Apr 2016 – Mar 2017
    CCNA: Routing and Switching

    Completed the full CCNA Routing and Switching curriculum, covering network fundamentals, LAN switching, routing, and WAN technologies.