Derek Afriyie
Infrastructure Platform Engineer
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolDerek Afriyie is an Infrastructure Platform Engineer with a decade of experience designing and operating cloud-native systems across AWS, Azure, and GCP. He specializes in SRE-style reliability, Kubernetes platform management, IaC with Terraform, and security-first practices like IAM, compliance automation, and network hardening for mission-critical deployments. Derek has helped scale observability and CI/CD across enterprises—from monitoring SAP apps at PlayStation to enabling ML-backed decision automation at Aera Technology—bringing pragmatic automation to complex environments. Based in New York and an avid basketball and tennis player, he blends hands-on cloud engineering with a background in support and education, which he leverages to mentor teams and improve operational processes. An unusual strength is his track record of pairing security/compliance controls with developer workflows to reduce audit overhead while keeping velocity high.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Information Systems, Computer Information Systems at Baruch CollegeAssociate in Applied Science - Honors, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, 3.5/4.0, Associate in Applied Science - Honors, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, 3.5/4.0 at Borough of Manhattan Community College
English
Github Skills (16)
asdf10
python9
kubernetes9
wizard7
cloudwatch6
flask-application5
react4
s3-bucket4
recording4
aws3
aws-services3
terraform3
terraform-module2
jenkins2
docker1
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
derekYankie/terraform-adventures
Dec 2022 - Jan 2024
Building AWS Services with Terraform 🏗👷
Contributions:4 reviews, 23 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 year 1 month
kinesisterraform-modulesaws-servicescloudwatchsns-topic
derekYankie/flaskapp-gitaction
Sep 2022 - Aug 2023
A fun place for me to play with Github Actions! :octocat:
Contributions:49 PRs, 116 pushes, 24 branches in 11 months
placeflask-applicationpython
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