Simon Mbuthia
Senior DevOps Engineer at Ignite Energy Access
Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Mbuthia is a Senior DevOps Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure across Nairobi and beyond. He combines deep Linux systems administration and scripting skills with practical expertise in CI/CD (CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins), AWS, Docker, Terraform and GitOps to deliver auditable, automated deployments. At Ignite Energy Access he led GitOps adoption and cut infrastructure costs by over 30% through right-sizing and automated provisioning, reflecting a pragmatic focus on efficiency and governance. His background spans security and operations roles at fintech and telecom ventures, giving him an uncommon blend of infra reliability, cost optimization, and security-minded tooling. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex operational requirements into reproducible, maintainable infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Daystar UniversityB. Sc., B. Sc. at Africa Nazarene University
Github Skills (40)
cfn-lint9
aws9
aws-cloudformation9
linter9
jq9
aws-sam8
jsonpath8
devops7
json7
golang7
aws-sdk7
pihole7
command-line-tool6
cli6
sdk6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Saichovsky/various_scripts
Apr 2019 - Mar 2025
Random shell scripts
Contributions:6 PRs, 18 pushes, 8 branches in 6 years
shellshell-scriptsbash
Saichovsky/gekko
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:36 commits, 8 PRs, 30 pushes in 16 days
trading-botbotdiscord-bottradingcrypto
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