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Emmanuel Christopher

Web3 DevOps / SRE / Infrastructure Engineer

EMEA (UTC+1)

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DevOps and Infrastructure Engineer managing production-grade blockchain RPC and node systems. Operated over 15 chains in production, reduced RPC p99 latency from ~2s to under 250ms, and lowered AWS costs by 45% while maintaining uptime. Previously a founding infrastructure engineer at GlueX; currently building Krainode.

Work Preferences

Salary

USD 24,000

Skills

GitHub Actions (CI/CD)10/10
AWS (EC2, VPC, EBS, IAM, CloudWatch)10/10
Docker10/10
Blockchain Node Operations (EVM/RPC)10/10
Bash10/10
Prometheus / Grafana / Loki / OTEL (10/10)Python (10/10)Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) (10/10)Terraform / Terragrunt (9/10)Nebius Cloud (8/10)Cloud Security (8/10)ETL / Data Engineering (8/10)FastAPI (8/10)NVIDIA NIM / GPU Inference (8/10)On-chain Data (8/10)PostgreSQL (8/10)SQL (8/10)GCP (GCS, BigQuery, PubSub) (6/10)Kubernetes (6/10)TypeScript (5/10)

Work Experience

Cloud Platform / DevOps Architect

RestoreAI (by GhostDog)

Feb 2026 — Present

Owned full infrastructure stack at an early-stage AI startup, migrating from a managed platform to Nebius cloud in 1 week. Provisioned GPU/non-GPU compute, managed Postgres, object storage, and networking via Terraform. Deployed NVIDIA VSS and NIM inference stack (Llama 3.1, Cosmos 2B, embedding/reranker models). Built CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, Trivy scanning, and automated rollback for microservices.

Founder + DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer

Krainode

Sept 2025 — Present

Developed an open-source, browser-based JSON-RPC playground used by 400+ devs globally for testing and benchmarking RPC endpoints across multiple EVM chains. Designed a static, low-latency architecture via Caddy with TLS and security headers. Implemented dynamic chain configuration from YAML to JSON and added instrumentation for latency, timeout, and reliability.

Founding DevOps & NodeOps Engineer

GlueX Protocol (formerly Otex)

Mar 2024 — Aug 2025

Managed production infrastructure for 15+ blockchain networks with full/archive nodes and HA RPC paths. Reduced RPC p99 latency from ~2s to under 250ms. Cut AWS costs by 45% ($25K to $13K/month). Built observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OTEL) with SLO dashboards and incident response. Automated CI/CD with Terraform, Terragrunt, and GitHub Actions, reducing deployment time from ~10 to 2 minutes.

Cloud Security Engineer (Part-Time)

Evermight

Jan 2024 — Mar 2024

Strengthened cloud-hosted applications and infrastructure by addressing security vulnerabilities across five deployments, improving uptime and reducing risk.

Freelance Data Engineer

Chain Co-Op

Mar 2023 — Dec 2023

Automated ETL and ELT processes on GCP (GCS, BigQuery, PubSub), consolidating over seven sources, reducing manual operations by 70% and lowering storage costs by 25%.

Education

AltSchool Africa

Diploma · Data Engineering