Ndifreke Essien
Systems Integration Lead
Lagos State, Nigeria
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Top SchoolNdifreke Essien is a Systems Integration Lead and seasoned Cloud & DevOps engineer based in Lagos with over 8 years of hands-on experience and a 15-year IT background. He specializes in containerization and orchestration—managing Docker Swarm and Kubernetes deployments for 30+ blockchain microservices—and has driven measurable improvements in scalability, automation, and uptime. Skilled across Linux and Windows server environments, CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions), and cloud platforms (Azure, AWS), he combines low-level systems expertise with full-stack development and ethical hacking interests. His work includes automating 90% of service setups with Bash, integrating payment systems using ISO 8583, and breaking monoliths into microservices to accelerate releases. A pragmatic mentor and former Azure technical lead, he pairs customer-facing troubleshooting experience with infrastructure design, and pursues AI engineering ambitions alongside embedded and web development.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
B. eng., Computer Engineering, B. eng., Computer Engineering at University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom state, Nigeria
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
azure-functions9
azure-webjobs-sdk9
azure8
serverless8
constants6
iterator6
php6
dice6
javascript6
qt6
apache6
ispconfig4
roundcube3
injection3
phpmyadmin3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
VilsHub/zionlight
Nov 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:81 commits, 83 pushes, 17 branches in 2 years 1 month
VilsHub/dbant
Jan 2020 - Jun 2023
Contributions:1 release, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
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