Cloud Infrastructure & AWS Architecture
VPC design, EC2, EKS, IAM, and Route53 — built with Terraform, not console clicks, so every environment is reproducible, version-controlled, and easy to tear down and rebuild.
Open to new opportunities
Hi, I'm Nicky
Cloud Engineer & DevOps Engineer building and automating AWS infrastructure — Terraform, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines that hold up in production. I also teach the next wave of cloud engineers through VOH Academy.
4
Cloud certifications
2+
Years AWS experience
30+
Hands-on labs built
Open to opportunities
What I do
Services
DevOps & CI/CD Automation
GitHub Actions pipelines, ArgoCD deployments, and Kubernetes rollouts — wired up end-to-end with Prometheus and Grafana so you can see what's happening in production, not just hope it's fine.
Cloud Engineering Training
Through VOH Academy, I design hands-on curriculum and lab tickets that take complete beginners from first principles to job-ready cloud engineers.
Portfolio
Selected work
AWS EKS
Terraform
ArgoCD
Spring Petclinic — Microservices on EKS
Deployed the Spring Petclinic microservices suite to AWS EKS, provisioning the cluster, networking, and IAM access entries with Terraform instead of console clicks.
The real work was in the failures: EKS version mismatches that broke kubectl auth, IRSA permissions silently blocking the AWS Load Balancer Controller from issuing certificates, and account-level ALB restrictions that forced a pivot to NodePort and port-forwarding to keep services reachable.
GitHub Actions now handles image builds and tag pushes end-to-end, so a merge to main is the only manual step between a code change and a running pod.
AWS EKS
GitHub Actions
Online Boutique — Multi-Service Pipeline
Migrated Google's Online Boutique microservices demo from GCP to AWS EKS behind a fully automated four-workflow GitHub Actions pipeline covering infra, CI, platform, and teardown.
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AWS EC2
Linux & Ansible
Cloud Field Engineer Readiness Labs
A self-designed, 32-session lab series structured as real client support tickets — Linux tuning, TLS, Ansible hardening, VPC design, and DNS — rebuilt from scratch every session.
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About me
A bit about
who I am
I'm Nicky — a Cloud Engineer based in Lagos, Nigeria, with about two years of hands-on AWS experience. I hold the AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Terraform Associate, Linux Foundation Certified Practitioner, and CCNA certifications, and I spend most of my working hours in Terraform, Kubernetes, and Linux.
I learn by asking "why" before I touch syntax, and I'd rather rebuild a broken environment from scratch than patch around a problem I don't fully understand yet. Outside of infrastructure work, I run VOH Academy, designing curriculum and hands-on labs that take complete beginners to job-ready cloud engineers.
Stack & tools
AWS
Terraform
Kubernetes (EKS)
Docker
Ansible
GitHub Actions
ArgoCD
Linux
Python
Prometheus & Grafana
Credentials
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Amazon Web Services
Terraform Associate
HashiCorp
Linux Foundation Certified Practitioner
Linux Foundation
CCNA
Cisco
Writing
Latest writing
DevOps
Coming soon
What rebuilding my EC2 lab from scratch every session taught me
On infrastructure-as-code discipline, idempotent bootstrap scripts, and why "it works on my instance" isn't good enough.
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AWS
Coming soon
The IRSA bug that taught me how IAM trust policies really work
How a silently failing Load Balancer Controller turned into a deep dive on IAM roles for service accounts.
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Education
Coming soon
Designing a 76-session cloud curriculum exposed my own gaps
What teaching complete beginners at VOH Academy forced me to relearn from first principles.
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Let's work
together
I'm open to full-time Cloud/DevOps roles as well as freelance and consulting work — infrastructure design, Kubernetes migrations, CI/CD pipelines, or technical training. Let's talk about what you're building.