Summary
Ndifreke 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