SAMUEL GYINAE
DevOps Engineer (Cloud, Automation, Reliability)
dev.gyinae@gmail.com | +233 20 534 6569
Accra, Ghana
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Professional Summary

DevOps Engineer with hands-on experience operating cloud-native platforms for telecom and fintech environments supporting 100k+ users. Strong background in networking and infrastructure, transitioned into DevOps to automate delivery, improve reliability, and embed security into CI/CD workflows. Experienced with Infrastructure as Code, container orchestration, monitoring, and audit-ready systems.

Core Skills

AWS Azure OCI Docker Kubernetes Helm Docker Swarm Terraform CloudFormation Ansible GitLab CI GitHub Actions Azure DevOps Prometheus Grafana ELK Stack Trivy SonarQube Linux Bash Python

Experience

DevOps Engineer — Techomes IT
January 2025 – Present
  • Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI and Azure DevOps, reducing manual deployment effort by ~30%.
  • Provisioned cloud infrastructure using Terraform and CloudFormation, cutting environment setup time by ~40%.
  • Deployed and monitored containerized workloads with Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Grafana, improving incident detection speed by ~25%.
Applications & Operations Support Engineer (DevOps Focus) — Adaptive Computer Solutions (ACS)
June 2024 – December 2024
  • Supported production and staging environments for Dockerized telecom microservices with 99.9%+ uptime.
  • Assisted CI/CD releases and infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, and GitLab CI.
  • Supported MTN group platforms serving 100k+ users across staging and production environments.
Cloud & Services Connectivity Engineer — Hubtel Ghana Limited
September 2023 – May 2024
  • Managed Azure AD / Entra ID RBAC policies, reducing access-related incidents by ~20%.
  • Implemented secure OpenVPN connectivity across 10+ offices supporting payment systems.
  • Supported PCI-DSS audit readiness, contributing to zero critical audit findings.
Network Engineer — Techomes IT
September 2020 – June 2023
  • Optimized enterprise network infrastructure, improving latency by ~20%.
  • Handled security monitoring and incident response for client environments.
  • Built strong operational foundations later applied in cloud and DevOps roles.

Projects (Personal — GitHub)

  • AWS CloudFormation Infrastructure — Automated VPCs, EC2, IAM roles, and security groups using reusable CloudFormation templates. (GitHub)
  • Secure CI/CD Pipeline — GitLab CI pipeline integrating Trivy and SonarQube with Docker and Kubernetes deployments. (GitHub)
  • Observability Stack — Prometheus and Grafana deployed via Helm with alerting and dashboards. (GitHub)

Education

MSc Finance & Credit — Higher School of Economics, Russia (2020)
BSc Quantity Surveying — KNUST, Ghana (2015)