Abubakr-sadik Davis
DevOps Engineer at Freelance
Accra, Greater Accra Region, Ghana
Summary
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Top SchoolAbubakr-sadik Davis is a DevOps engineer and seasoned IT leader based in Accra with 13 years of experience building and operating reliable Linux and cloud-native infrastructure. He blends hands-on systems administration and DevOps leadership from roles at mPharma and Esoko with long-standing freelance work, bringing practical expertise in automation, observability, and secure deployments. His open-source contributions include security-focused improvements to Aqua Security’s widely used kube-bench project, where he strengthened audit reliability, error handling, and multi-version Kubernetes/OCP support. Comfortable moving between consultancy and embedded engineering roles, he has a track record of turning security and operational gaps into auditable, production-ready processes. Trained in computer science at KNUST, he pairs academic foundations with a pragmatic, security-first approach to infrastructure. Colleagues describe him as a tech explorer and educator who elevates team capabilities while shipping defensible systems.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc. Computer Science, Bsc. Computer Science at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Github Skills (11)
it-security10
kubernetes10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
security10
dockers9
devops9
docker9
automations8
automation8
yaml8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
aquasecurity/kube-bench
Jun 2017 - Mar 2020
Checks whether Kubernetes is deployed according to security best practices as defined in the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Security Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Security EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 86 commits, 51 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Abubakr-sadik primarily focused on improving the security and reliability of the `kube-bench` project. Their contributions involved refactoring audit command execution, enhancing error handling within the audit pipeline, and addressing issues related to missing configuration files and incorrect command syntax. Additionally, they implemented features to control the output of the tool, enabling users to customize the displayed information, which is critical for security auditing. They also updated the project to support multiple kubernetes and OCP versions.
cis-securitydefinedsecuritykube-benchopenshift
monzo/kube-bench
Jul 2018 - Nov 2019
Checks whether Kubernetes is deployed according to security best practices as defined in the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark
Contributions:23 commits in 1 year 4 months
definedsecuritycisbenchmarkkubernetes
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