Edidiong Richard Akpan

DevOps Engineer

Port-Harcourt, Nigeria

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DevOps Engineer specializing in optimizing cloud infrastructure for high reliability, cost reduction, scalability, and uptime. Skilled in IaC, container orchestration, security, and monitoring. Demonstrated 90% downtime reduction, 70% faster software delivery via CI/CD, and 30% cloud cost savings on Kubernetes/EKS environments.

Skills

Docker8/10

Kubernetes8/10

CI/CD8/10

GitHub Actions8/10

ERC-7217/10

Git & GitHub (7/10)Amazon EKS (7/10)Argo CD (7/10)AWS (7/10)ERC-20 (7/10)Linux (7/10)Prometheus (7/10)Smart Contract Development (7/10)GitOps (7/10)Grafana (7/10)Cloud Cost Optimization (6/10)Bash Scripting (6/10)Terraform (6/10)

Work Experience

DevOps Intern

HNG Tech

Oct 2025 — Dec 2025

Implemented Blue-Green Deployment strategy for seamless application releases with near-zero downtime. Deployed services to cloud servers, managed environment variables, secrets, and application configuration. Troubleshot deployment issues, monitored system performance, and collaborated with technical teams.

Education

University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria

BSc · Physics

2018 – 2023