HAMMED AKINWALE

Platform Engineer | Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Nigeria, NG.

About

Highly skilled Platform and Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with 3+ years of experience in designing, automating, and operating production-grade, multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure). Specializing in regulated fintech and blockchain platforms, I currently manage infrastructure for Nigeria's national stablecoin (cNGN) and a licensed multichain custody platform, supporting multi-million-dollar daily transaction volumes. My expertise in Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, GitOps, and security hardening has significantly reduced audit-preparation effort and accelerated environment setup.

Work

Convexity

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Platform & Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Nigeria, Nigeria, Nigeria

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Summary

Owns and operates multi-cloud (AWS + GCP) production infrastructure for four regulated fintech and blockchain platforms, supporting multi-million-dollar daily transaction volume.

Highlights

Led the design and operation of secure, highly-available blockchain infrastructure for cNGN, Nigeria's national digital currency, processing multi-million-dollar daily transaction volume.

Designed and operated secure, regulatory-compliant infrastructure for Scrybit Wallet, a licensed multichain digital asset custody and transaction-signing platform.

Architected robust infrastructure supporting portfolio management and on-chain settlement for Mojaaexchange, a blockchain-based asset management platform.

Designed and operated cloud infrastructure for a blockchain-based aid distribution system operating across multiple African countries, enabling transparent and auditable aid delivery.

Implemented cross-cloud, keyless authentication using GCP Workload Identity Federation with AWS IAM, eliminating the need for long-lived credentials and enhancing security posture.

Hardened IAM policies, secrets management, and security controls across all four production platforms, substantially reducing audit-preparation effort.

Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and GitLab CI, enabling automated, zero-downtime deployments across all four platforms.

Implemented centralized observability using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and Jaeger, improving monitoring coverage and accelerating incident-response speed for critical systems.

Darey.io

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Cloud DevOps Engineer

Nigeria, Nigeria, Nigeria

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Summary

Deployed and managed containerized applications on AWS, automated infrastructure provisioning, and implemented CI/CD pipelines for cloud training environments.

Highlights

Deployed and managed containerized applications on AWS using Docker and Kubernetes, ensuring high availability and scalability for client projects.

Automated cloud infrastructure provisioning with Terraform, significantly reducing environment setup time by over 50% for various development and training initiatives.

Implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions, reducing manual deployment errors by 30% and accelerating software delivery cycles.

Supported cloud training environments utilized by hundreds of engineers, facilitating practical learning and skill development in cloud technologies.

Volunteer

Mentor

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Nexascale (Cloud Enthusiasts)

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Mentors aspiring cloud and DevOps engineers on infrastructure automation, guiding them through real-world challenges and project reviews.

Highlights

Mentored aspiring cloud and DevOps engineers on infrastructure automation best practices, guiding them through project reviews and complex real-world infrastructure challenges.

Languages

English

Skills

Cloud Platforms

AWS, GCP, Azure, Multi-cloud, Hub-and-spoke networking.

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible.

Containers & Orchestration

Docker, Kubernetes (EKS).

CI/CD & GitOps

GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD.

Security & Identity

IAM, Secrets Management, RBAC, Cross-Cloud Workload Identity Federation.

Observability

Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Jaeger.

Distributed Systems

Kafka, Zookeeper, RabbitMQ, Redis, Event-driven microservices.

Operating Systems

Linux, Windows, macOS.

Projects

Azure Hub-and-Spoke Architecture

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Summary

Implemented a secure enterprise cloud networking architecture.

EKS Cluster with Terraform

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Summary

Provisioned and automated production-grade Kubernetes infrastructure.