Ade Ashaolu

Cloud & DevOps Engineer with 3+ years of hands-on experience building, automating, and securing cloud-native infrastructure on AWS. Skilled across the full delivery lifecycle - Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, CI/CD pipeline design, Kubernetes container orchestration, and observability with Prometheus and Grafana. Proven record of cutting deployment times, improving reliability, and eliminating manual toil through automation.

Comfortable owning production systems, collaborating across development and operations teams, and applying DevSecOps practices to ship faster without sacrificing stability or security.

DevOps Engineer at Upwork (2024-06 – Present)

• Designed and maintained CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions for 12+ microservices across client projects, reducing average deployment time from 25 to under 8 minutes.
• Provisioned and managed AWS infrastructure as code with Terraform across staging and production environments, eliminating manual setup and reducing configuration drift.
• Deployed and operated Kubernetes (EKS) workloads with Helm and horizontal auto-scaling, supporting 20+ containerized services at 99.9% uptime.
• Built monitoring and alerting with Prometheus and Grafana, cutting incident detection time and reducing MTTR by 35%.
• Containerized 15+ applications with Docker, standardizing builds and improving deployment consistency across environments.
• Implemented secrets management with AWS Secrets Manager and IAM least-privilege policies, strengthening security posture and passing client security reviews.

Junior DevOps Engineer at Luminovas Ltd (2023-04 – 2024-03)

• Automated routine deployment and backup tasks with Python and Bash scripts, saving the team roughly 10 hours per week of manual work.
• Supported migration of on-premises workloads to AWS, helping reduce infrastructure costs by 20%.
• Set up centralized logging and Grafana dashboards that improved visibility into application health and reduced troubleshooting time.
• Collaborated with developers to embed automated testing and security scanning into the CI/CD release process.

B.Sc. in Quantity Surveying – University Of Ilorin (2021)